Writers at Risk

Beschreibung
This list is meant as a help for the theme "Writers at risk", Reading Globally, 2nd quarter 2016. I will add the link to the thread after I create it.
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28,163 Mitglieder
512 Rezensionen
4.1
2
12,872 Mitglieder
198 Rezensionen
4
3
6,846 Mitglieder
251 Rezensionen
½ 4.3
6 Members
streamsong, charl08, FlorenceArt, ahef1963, rileyhuff, steller0707
Erklärungen
FlorenceArt: Memoir of the revolution in Iran, then exile to Europe.
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27,433 Mitglieder
569 Rezensionen
½ 4.3
4 Members
dara85, streamsong, Dilara86, ahef1963
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Dilara86: Holocaust memoirs
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4,843 Mitglieder
62 Rezensionen
½ 4.3
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3,717 Mitglieder
70 Rezensionen
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4 Members
kidzdoc, charl08, ELiz_M, rileyhuff
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ELiz_M: An autobiographical novel of the author's experience in a Japanese prison camp as a young boy during WWII.
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3 Members
FlorenceArt, Dilara86, rileyhuff
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Dilara86: slavery
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1,042 Mitglieder
35 Rezensionen
3.9
3 Members
kidzdoc, charl08, ELiz_M
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ELiz_M: A novel depicting the brutal, oppressive life of a Egyptian village girl. It was inspired by the author's contact with an imprisoned woman. Almost a decade later, the author herself was imprisoned and terrorized for her ongoing feminist activism.
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656 Mitglieder
18 Rezensionen
3.8
3 Members
thorold, spiphany, ELiz_M
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ELiz_M: "one of the greatest treatments of flight and exile in modern German writing...." written during the author's own flight from the Nazis.
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392 Mitglieder
6 Rezensionen
3.8
3 Members
kidzdoc, charl08, spiphany
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kidzdoc: This novel was written on toilet paper during the author's year long imprisonment.
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342 Mitglieder
10 Rezensionen
3.8
3 Members
thorold, spiphany, ELiz_M
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ELiz_M: The author fled the violence tearing Yugoslavia apart in 1993. This novel is an attempt "to capture the slow and constant sense of loss and displacement caused by exile..."
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221 Mitglieder
4 Rezensionen
½ 4.3
3 Members
chlorine, thorold, Dilara86
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chlorine: Haitian writer condemning Papa Doc's dicatorship. He was so angry that the family bought all the copies they could find to try and save her.
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21,791 Mitglieder
337 Rezensionen
4
2 Members
FlorenceArt, gypsysmom
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FlorenceArt: A memoir of McCourt's childhood in Ireland and escape to America.
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15,580 Mitglieder
312 Rezensionen
4.2
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10,077 Mitglieder
143 Rezensionen
½ 4.4
2 Members
dara85, ahef1963
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8,657 Mitglieder
257 Rezensionen
½ 4.5
2 Members
streamsong, FlorenceArt
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FlorenceArt: A second-hand account of the life of Spiegelman's father, a Polish Jew, as he was persecuted and later sent to Auschwitz.
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6,051 Mitglieder
98 Rezensionen
½ 4.3
2 Members
thorold, FlorenceArt
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thorold: Italian-Jewish chemist tries to make sense of his experience of Auschwitz
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3,962 Mitglieder
113 Rezensionen
4.2
2 Members
kidzdoc, chlorine
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chlorine: Black man living as a free man in the North of the US illegally sold into slavery in the south.
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3,522 Mitglieder
48 Rezensionen
4.1
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2,170 Mitglieder
59 Rezensionen
4.1
2 Members
dara85, streamsong
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1,331 Mitglieder
34 Rezensionen
3.8
2 Members
thorold, ELiz_M
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1,159 Mitglieder
10 Rezensionen
½ 3.6
2 Members
FlorenceArt, Dilara86
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Dilara86: slavery
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1,084 Mitglieder
43 Rezensionen
½ 3.6
2 Members
thorold, spiphany
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thorold: Young people trying to stand up against Ceaucescu
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391 Mitglieder
6 Rezensionen
½ 3.6
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247 Mitglieder
5 Rezensionen
½ 4.3
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200 Mitglieder
6 Rezensionen
3.9
2 Members
chlorine, spiphany
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chlorine: Hungarian woman and her family flee the communist regime and emigrate to Switzerland.
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118 Mitglieder
5 Rezensionen
½ 4.6
2 Members
rebeccanyc, charl08
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rebeccanyc: Escaped from the Nazis only to be imprisoned for his work in the Free Hungary movement.
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7,921 Mitglieder
76 Rezensionen
½ 3.5
Member
FlorenceArt
Erklärungen
FlorenceArt: I'm including this book, which is the sequel to Angela's Ashes, because it belongs to the theme more than the first, although I understand it's not as good (I haven't read it).
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6,059 Mitglieder
232 Rezensionen
4
Member
dara85
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4,220 Mitglieder
38 Rezensionen
3.9
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3,022 Mitglieder
34 Rezensionen
3.9
Member
FlorenceArt
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FlorenceArt: A fictionalized account of the author's time in a Siberian prison camp.
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1,974 Mitglieder
42 Rezensionen
4
Member
thorold
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thorold: Italian dissident sent into internal exile by Mussolini
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1,935 Mitglieder
59 Rezensionen
3.9
Member
dara85
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1,843 Mitglieder
65 Rezensionen
4.2
Member
chlorine
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chlorine: Woman living in Berlin at the end of WWII when Russians invaded. Had to endure multiple rapes and privations.
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1,583 Mitglieder
35 Rezensionen
4.2
Member
ELiz_M
Erklärungen
ELiz_M: A collection of short stories loosely based on the author's experiences in various concentration camps.
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1,519 Mitglieder
32 Rezensionen
4.2
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1,477 Mitglieder
30 Rezensionen
½ 4.3
Member
dara85
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1,469 Mitglieder
20 Rezensionen
4.2
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1,360 Mitglieder
34 Rezensionen
3.8
Member
chlorine
Erklärungen
chlorine: Woman in Africa submitted to genital mutilations. Managed to emigrate to London. Was a UN special ambassador in the fight againts femage genital mutilations.
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1,161 Mitglieder
1 Rezension
4.1
Member
thorold
Erklärungen
thorold: Italian communist imprisoned under Mussolini, leading theoretician of European Marxism
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1,102 Mitglieder
18 Rezensionen
4.1
Member
thorold
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thorold: Gay Cuban novelist's autobiography (imprisonment, exile, AIDS)
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979 Mitglieder
57 Rezensionen
4.1
Member
kidzdoc
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kidzdoc: This novel is about the persecution of the Romanian German population in Stalinist Russia, and its deportation to forced labor camps after World War II.
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944 Mitglieder
17 Rezensionen
4
Member
ELiz_M
Erklärungen
ELiz_M: from wiki: Behan eventually joined the IRA at sixteen, which led to his serving time in a borstal youth prison in the United Kingdom and he was also imprisoned in Republic of Ireland.
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794 Mitglieder
28 Rezensionen
3.8
Member
thorold
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thorold: Not read, but looks relevant
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772 Mitglieder
18 Rezensionen
4
Member
chlorine
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758 Mitglieder
11 Rezensionen
½ 3.6
Member
spiphany
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722 Mitglieder
16 Rezensionen
3.9
Member
spiphany
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von Latifa
636 Mitglieder
21 Rezensionen
½ 3.7
Member
chlorine
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chlorine: Young woman in Afghanistan forced to live under Taliban's rule. Escaped to France and wrote this book.
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635 Mitglieder
11 Rezensionen
4.2
Member
dara85
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597 Mitglieder
5 Rezensionen
4.2
Member
thorold
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thorold: US anarchist & feminist exiled to Russia and then to France
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565 Mitglieder
3 Rezensionen
4.2
Member
thorold
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thorold: Russian poet who wrote about her encounters with the Stalinist terror
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527 Mitglieder
5 Rezensionen
4.1
Member
spiphany
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526 Mitglieder
4.1
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513 Mitglieder
30 Rezensionen
½ 3.4
Member
Dilara86
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469 Mitglieder
6 Rezensionen
4
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448 Mitglieder
7 Rezensionen
½ 4.3
Member
rebeccanyc
Erklärungen
rebeccanyc: Born in exile, died in exile, jailed twice by the French and once by the Soviets.
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432 Mitglieder
13 Rezensionen
3.9
Member
rebeccanyc
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rebeccanyc: Written back and forth on sheets of paper when Fallada was imprisoned in a Nazi mental hospital for the criminally insane.
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385 Mitglieder
5 Rezensionen
½ 3.5
Member
ELiz_M
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ELiz_M: The first black woman to escape from slavery in the British colonies (West Indies) and publish a record of her experience.
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283 Mitglieder
15 Rezensionen
3.8
Member
SassyLassy
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SassyLassy: Two writers living in exile
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279 Mitglieder
7 Rezensionen
4
Member
thorold
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thorold: The Mann family in exile
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237 Mitglieder
3 Rezensionen
½ 3.7
Member
thorold
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thorold: Czech dissident (later president) writes to his wife from prison
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212 Mitglieder
9 Rezensionen
½ 4.5
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211 Mitglieder
1 Rezension
½ 3.7
Member
charl08
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199 Mitglieder
7 Rezensionen
½ 3.7
Member
thorold
Erklärungen
thorold: On being exiled from a country that no longer exists (GDR) - also has a lot about other German political exiles in California, like the Manns
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194 Mitglieder
6 Rezensionen
3.2
Member
ELiz_M
Erklärungen
ELiz_M: The main character, like the author, was a victim of China's "anti-rightest movement" in the mid-1950s. The novel depicts the banal brutality of the political system.
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190 Mitglieder
4 Rezensionen
½ 4.6
Member
FlorenceArt
Erklärungen
FlorenceArt: Memoir of the author's life as a Polish Jew persecuted both by the nazis and soviets.
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von Ovid
170 Mitglieder
2 Rezensionen
3.9
Member
spiphany
Erklärungen
spiphany: Writings of the poet Ovid after his banishment from Rome in 8 AD.
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167 Mitglieder
4 Rezensionen
3.8
Member
thorold
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thorold: Scottish teenager who tried to assassinate Franco and spent time behind bars in Spain and in the UK
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149 Mitglieder
3 Rezensionen
3.9
Member
FlorenceArt
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FlorenceArt: Memoir of a child and her family trying to survive in occupied Hungary.
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144 Mitglieder
2 Rezensionen
½ 4.3
Member
spiphany
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135 Mitglieder
1 Rezension
4.1
Member
spiphany
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126 Mitglieder
4 Rezensionen
½ 4.3
Member
dara85
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118 Mitglieder
2 Rezensionen
4.2
Member
spiphany
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78 Mitglieder
2 Rezensionen
½ 3.7
Member
kidzdoc
Erklärungen
kidzdoc: Dowlatabadi composed this novel internally while he was imprisoned in Iran, and wrote it shortly after his release.
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75 Mitglieder
19 Rezensionen
½ 4.4
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74 Mitglieder
1 Rezension
3.8
Member
spiphany
Erklärungen
spiphany: Andrei Sinyavsky (pseud. Abram Tertz) was tried and imprisoned for his Soviet-critical writing (The Trial Begins; On Socialist Realism). "A Voice from the Chorus" was based on his experiences while imprisoned.
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73 Mitglieder
½ 3.5
Member
thorold
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thorold: British/Irish playwright persecuted because of his sexuality (this is a book about rather than by)
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69 Mitglieder
½ 3.3
Member
thorold
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thorold: Russian 19th century socialist exiled to London
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67 Mitglieder
1 Rezension
½ 2.5
Member
ELiz_M
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ELiz_M: An account of the writer's arrest and trial, his prison dreams and fantasies.
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63 Mitglieder
3 Rezensionen
½ 3.7
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55 Mitglieder
3.8
Member
SassyLassy
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SassyLassy: Written by Bukharin while he was in prison before his execution under Stalin
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53 Mitglieder
½ 3.5
Member
Dilara86
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Dilara86: Memoirs of a feminist anarchist who was imprisoned and sent to a penal colony
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45 Mitglieder
3.8
Member
thorold
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thorold: Two great German-Jewish poets exchange letters
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44 Mitglieder
½ 3.5
Member
spiphany
Erklärungen
spiphany: Heym fled Nazi Germany to the US, where he fought with the Americans in WWII. Left the US in the 1950s because of his communist politics, emigrated to East Germany, where he was initially welcomed, but later banned from publishing due to his criticism of the government.
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38 Mitglieder
1 Rezension
½ 3.3
Member
Dilara86
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Dilara86: Written by a former Islamic State hostage
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34 Mitglieder
2 Rezensionen
½ 4.3
Member
thorold
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thorold: White journalist jailed for his part in an anti-apartheid group.
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31 Mitglieder
1 Rezension
4
Member
thorold
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thorold: The author was imprisoned together with Mandela
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26 Mitglieder
4
Member
thorold
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thorold: Poet who was imprisoned by the regime in Malawi
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21 Mitglieder
1 Rezension
½ 4.6
Member
thorold
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thorold: German-Jewish poet who wrote about life after the Holocaust
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15 Mitglieder
1 Rezension
5
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13 Mitglieder
1 Rezension
½ 3.3
Member
thorold
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thorold: Left-wing political exiles from the Continent in 19th century London
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9 Mitglieder
4
Member
thorold
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thorold: Play by-and-about two South African political prisoners on Robben Island staging Antigone
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von Tian
7 Mitglieder
4
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7 Mitglieder
Member
spiphany
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spiphany: Biermann's expatriation by the East Germany government provoked protests by many prominent German writers.
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3 Mitglieder
2 Rezensionen
½ 3.5
Member
thorold
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thorold: Dutch journalist stuck in revolutionary Russia
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6,113 Mitglieder
59 Rezensionen
3.9
97
1,245 Mitglieder
50 Rezensionen
½ 3.5
98
1,054 Mitglieder
20 Rezensionen
½ 4.3
99
758 Mitglieder
15 Rezensionen
4.1
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357 Mitglieder
13 Rezensionen
3.9