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Paul Auster accepts PEN America presidency after 'appalling' US election

Written By Unknown on Friday, January 20, 2017 | 7:09 AM

Novelist said he doubted he could live with himself if he turned down the free speech group’s leadership under a Trump administration

Paul Auster is to lead American writers’ opposition to new president Donald Trump, by taking on the leadership of freedom of speech group PEN America, saying he had “been struggling ever since Trump won to work out how to live my life in the years ahead”.

In an interview with the Guardian, the veteran novelist and memoirist revealed he will become the group’s president in 2018. The organisation, one of many around the world campaigning for the rights of writers, is currently led by author Andrew Solomon.

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