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Stories for life
THE SACRIFICE by Chenjerai Hove
Posted on 12. June, 2009
The prison officer stares at me. I fear to answer his persistent questions. He wears this horrid, wrinkled face of the man of law, solid, unfeeling. But sometimes I think he feels. He keeps asking me the same question every time he has a chance to talk to me, only when there is no other guard nearby, alone with me, as if for the sole purpose of torturing me.
'Did you really do it?' he wants to know.
'Yes, I did,' I answer.
WHAT IS STORIES FOR LIFE?
Stories for Life is an open space in which writers from all over the world can connect and release their stories. Over the next five years of the Shahrazad project, these narratives will be created and disseminated by poets, journalists, novelists, editors, cartoonists, translators and essayists throughout Europe and beyond. They will be introduced to European children and young people in schools and local communities and they too will be invited to respond.
Latest news
Shahrazad invited to showcase the Hakawati and Mem Û ZÎn tours for the Nordic Culture Point
Posted on 2. July, 2009
More than 2000 people attended Shahrazad events at Refugee Week in Norwich
Posted on 2. July, 2009
Sunday 21st of June marked the finale of Refugee Week in Norwich.
Cecilia Samartin visits Stavanger in September
Posted on 19. June, 2009
The author of bestsellers such as Broken Paradise (Drømmehjerte) and Tarnished Beauty (Senõr Peregrino) visits Stavanger in September to talk about her new book Vigil (Salvadoreña).
Upcoming events
- Meet Cecilia Samartin in Stavanger(61 days)
- Mem Û Zîn: Kurdish Voices - Bergen(67 days)
- Mem Û Zîn: Kurdish Voices - Stavanger(68 days)
- Mem Û Zîn: Kurdish Voices - Oslo(69 days)
- Kapittel- Stavanger International Festival of Literature and Freedom of Speech(74 days)
- Kapittel: The Culture Behind the Conflict(76 days)
The Storyteller
- The storyteller
- Shahrazad: Stories for Life will bring you new and exciting tales told by writers persecuted and silenced in their own homelands. Many are living as guest writers in a city of refuge.
- Partner Cities
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Shahrazad: Stories for Life is a collaboration between six different organisations...
- Shahrazad: Stories for Life is a collaboration between six different organisations based in six European Cities of Refuge: Barcelona, Brussels, Frankfurt, Norwich, Stockholm and Stavanger. While each city offers different approaches and different strengths, we all work for freedom of expression and for literature.