For the fourth year in a row, Media@McGill, Reporters sans Frontières and the Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival are proud to sponsor the "Writers in Peril" series. This year, taking place from 27 April to 1 May 2011 at the Holiday Inn Select Montreal Downtown Hotel, 99 Viger Avenue West, Montréal (Métro: Place d'Armes), the Blue Metropolis Festival brings together writers and readers for over 100 events.
There are four collaborative events of the Writers in peril series scattered throughout the Blue Metropolis programme:
Wednesday April 27
20 h 00
12 WRITERS IN PERIL: HUMANIST TRADITIONS IN MODERN BANGLADESH
Discussion - 75 minutes
When Taslima Nasreen's 1993 novel Shame ran afoul of Bangladesh's Home Ministry and was subsequently banned, little did the author know that she was about to embark on a 15-year plus odyssey to be allowed to write freely in her supposedly democratic society. Taslima discusses censorship in her homeland and what it means to be a writer in exile.
P: Taslima Nasreen
A: Dennis Trudeau
Friday April 29
20 h 00
38 FÉMINISME EN PÉRIL (the event will be recorded and available online).
Table ronde 75 minutes
Regards croisés de trois écrivaines libres-penseurs autour des questions sensibles des religions, de l'intégrisme, des femmes et de la liberté d'expression. Three influential feminist writers consider and discuss intersecting viewpoints on several controversial subjects such as religion, fundamentalism, gender, and freedom of expression.
P : Nassira Belloula, Caroline Fourest, Taslima Nasrin
A : François Bugingo
Saturday April 30
15 h 00
66 ÉCRIVAIN EN PERIL : CAROLINE FOUREST
Entrevue sur scène 75 minutes
Humaniste et intellectuelle engagée de renommée internationale, Caroline Fourest est une figure bien connue du féminisme et de la laïcité en France. Sa croisade contre toutes formes d'intégrismes religieux, politiques et sociaux la mène à dénoncer les préjugés et les inégalités à ses risques et périls.
P : Caroline Fourest
A : François Bugingo
Saturday April 30
20 h 30
83 LE POUVOIR DES MOTS : ÉCRIRE AU PROCHE-ORIENT EN PÉRIODE DE CRISE
Table ronde 75 minutes
Discussion sur la littérature, le pouvoir des mots et la liberté d'expression pour comprendre les enjeux qui troublent le Proche-Orient.
Alaa Al Aswany, Gilbert Sinoué
Animateur: François Bugingo
To get your tickets, and the full programme, visit: http://bluemetropolis.org/Festival