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Minna Castrén: Promoting literature and reading is a fight for freedom of expression
Minna Castrén’s text is only in Finnish and Swedish.
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Matteo Stocchetti: Freedom of expression is not enough
To strengthen democracy, we need communicative competences. The idea that freedom of expression is one of the fundamental democratic freedoms...
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Laura Lindstedt: The writer’s freedom of expression in a world dominated by spectacle
What comes to mind from the words “writer’s freedom of expression”? Do you think of imprisoned, exiled or murdered writers,...
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Oula-Antti Labba: The decade of indigenous languages is also significant for freedom of expression
The Sámi indigenous peoples celebrate their National Day on 6 February. At the same time the decade of indigenous languages...
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Janne Huuskonen: The authorities must respect the law
Freedom of expression allows criticism of those in power. Politicians have a broad right to freedom of expression, perhaps even...
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Sulava audiocollection in Finnish and in English
“Sulava – Multilingual literature in Finland” published by Suomen PEN in 2021 contains texts by 22 authors in 15 different...
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Peter Mickwitz: A trip to Ukraine
The last week of October I travelled to Kyiv, Ukraine together with representatives for the Nordic PEN centres, PEN Berlin,...
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Inger-Mari Aikio
I have worked as a freelance artist since 2008. Before that, I was a journalist for a magazine and on...
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Gag Baani
I was forced to leave the country after spending 45 years in a small village ‘Gag’ in the backward part...
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Csilla Csépke
Csilla Csépke is a Helsinki based writer from Hungary. She was born in the stern winter of 1986 in Budapest,...
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Muhaned Durubi
Muhaned Durubi (born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1979) is a visual artist and a poet who lives in Helsinki. In...
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Zoila Forss
Zoila Forss-Crespo Moreyra was born in Lima, Peru, on April 18, 1969. In 1995 Forss received her BA in Communications...
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Yaseen Ghaleb
Yaseen Ghaleb Aldhadi, is an Iraqi writer who is currently based in Helsinki, Finland since 2015. In 2005 he graduated...
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Saad Hadi
Saad Hadi is an Iraqi writer, journalist, and visual artist born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1956. He holds a master’s...
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Farzaneh Hatami Landi
Farzaneh Hatami Landi (b.1964) is from southern Iran. She came to Finland in 1990 and completed her technology studies at...
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Susinukke Kosola
Daniil Kozlov (b. 1991), artist named Susinukke Kosola, is a St. Petersburg-born writer living in Turku and a mixed worker...
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Elena Lapina-Balk
Elena Lapina-Balk is a writer who was born in St. Petersburg. Having received a university degree from the Leningrad Institute...
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Shashank Mane
Born in Mumbai, India, I have travelled and lived around the world from a young age. Spending years in Geneva,...
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Hope Nwosu
Hope Nwosu was born on April 27, 1986 in Akpugoeze, Enugu, Nigeria. She received her BA in English and Literary...
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Adrian Perera
Adrian Perera, born 1986, is a writer and lives in Turku. In addition to the collection of poems White Monkey...