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Parker & Quink by Jennifer Compton & The Yugoslav Women and Their Pickled Herrings by Cathy Young
by Philip Harvey •
Native Title in Australia by Peter Sutton & Crossing Boundaries edited by Sandy Toussaint
by Stephen Muecke •
The Trembling Bridge by Manfred Jurgensen & Dancing with the Hurricane by Leon Silver
by Judith Armstrong •
Tom Appleby, Convict Boy by Jackie French & Stoker's Bay by Peter Jeans
by Margaret MacNabb •
True Pleasures: A memoir of women in Paris by Lucinda Holdforth
by Christina Hill •
Vaclav Havel and Nobel Laureates Call for the Release of Imprisoned Burmese Writers
by Hidden Author •
Fourteen Nobel Literature Laureates – along with Vaclav Havel, former President of the Czech Republic and renowned playwright, and Jiri Grusa, acclaimed Czech writer and President of International PEN – have urged Senior General Than Shwe of the Burmese Military Junta to release Nobel Peace Laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and other imprisoned Burmese writers. These include 74-year-old editor U Win Tin, who is serving twenty years’ hard labour, and poet and journalist U Aung Myint, who was condemned to twenty-one years’ imprisonment. In a letter delivered to Burmese embassies in Bangkok, Berlin, London, New Delhi, Tokyo, Washington DC and other cities on April 13, Havel and the Laureates wrote:
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