Shahrazad - Stories for life

This digital story was created by Odd-Reza during a workshop at Jåttå High School near Stavanger in February 2009.

ICORN, the network of which all six Shahrazad cities are members, has been established as an international membership organisation, headquartered in Stavanger, Norway.

Terrible times

The heart is touched by pain
asking time rather than fate:
"What has become of my brothers?

What wind has confused them
as it got inside them and dried
all love from them,
and cut all their wings?
A wind that carries hatred
and that kills the blossoming flowers."

This heart cries in sadness.
And I ask time:
What has become of all those
that went together,
soul brothers,
eager for victory?

You have to write in blood
on this scene of life
the beautiful cry of "Freedom"!

You, mother, who is by the door,
scrutinizing with tired eyes
in case your offspring arrives.
The blood has fallen to the ground,
a land that opens
with her innocent heart.
The rogue has managed,
the most tender of the youths
and your child will not return.

The 2009 ICORN General Assembly will be hosted by the Catalan PEN in Barcelona, April 21 and 22.

The 2009 ICORN General Assembly in Barcelona is the fourth assembly since the network was established in December 2005, and the last one in the "old" regime of its organisation.

Closing Dinner in honour of Sant Jordi’s Day
Performance by Marina Rossell
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Reception in the Town Hall of Barcelona by His Honour the
Mayor of Barcelona, Jordi Hereu.

Intervention by the Amazigh writer Salem Zenia,

Conference by the Bulgarian-German writer Iljia Trojanow:
The Forgotten Fruits of Migration
(Session within the framework
of the exhibition in the Tinell Hall: Barcelona Connected,

Reception in Palau de la Generalitat given by the Honourable
Mr. Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira, Vicepresident of the Government
of the Generalitat of Catalonia.

Round Table: Is Translation the Language of Our World?
Participants: Chenjerai Hove, Francesc Guardans, Simona Skrabec,
Josep Maria Terricabras, Carles Torner, Ilija Trojanow, Salem

Conference by Francesc Parcerisas
Asymmetrical Relevance of Literary Translation

Place: Residència d’Investigadors (c. Hospital, 64)
Time: 17:30
Open session.

An evening with readings and music!
Our international guests meet with local Catalan performers.

With the intervention of the writer Horacio Castellanos Moya

Official Opening of ICORN's General Assembly by the Honourable Councillor of Culture
Joan M. Tresserras.
Intervention of the writer Chenjerai Hove (Zimbabwe):
The Power of Writing.

This digital story was created by Charlotte during a workshop at Jåttå High School near Stavanger in February 2009.