The next ICORN General Assembly will take place in Frankfurt.
The Argentinean author and musician Pablo Ramos meets Daniel Adoue (piano).
Venue: Die Fabrik – Mittlerer Hasenpfad 5, 60598 Frankfurt am Main
Yang Lian (essayist and poet) meets Gert Putscheff (violin)
Literary encounter with Rodrigo Fresán, Guadalupe Nettel, Pedro Carmona-Alvarez.
Literary encounter with Rodrigo Fresán, Guadalupe Nettel, Pedro Carmona-Alvarez, Gabriella Håkansson and Torbjörn Elensky.
A numerous audience of invited guests from London and many corners of Europe defied the rather frosty weather conditions of the UK capital and joined the celebration of ICORN becoming an independent, international organisation at the Free Word Centre on Thursday 7 January.
Philo Ikonya is a Kenyan writer, journalist and human rights activist, who is presently Oslo City of Refuge's ICORN Guest Writer.
Philo Ikonya is a Kenyan writer, journalist and human rights activist, and presently Oslo City of Refuge's ICORN Guest Writer. She was elected president of Kenyan PEN in 2007.
ICORN, the International Cities of Refuge Network, began recruiting member cities to host persecuted writers in 2006. Over 25 cities from Europe and beyond have since joined.
As a poet and journalist, Khonsyawashan has contributed to several Kurdish and Persian journals of literature, politics, arts an