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Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood lead campaign for displaced writers

Written By Unknown on Wednesday, May 31, 2017 | 4:48 AM

The two novelists are among 200 writers and artists backing Pen International’s three-year plan to promote work by censored and persecuted people

A global campaign hailed by Salman Rushdie as “a significant public stand against racism and xenophobia” has been launched, backed by more than 200 leading writers and artists, including Ai Weiwei, Margaret Atwood and Isabel Allende.

The Make Space campaign by Pen International will focus over the next three years on writers displaced through persecution and censorship, with Rushdie calling the project “a concerted effort from the heart of the literary industry to make opportunities for writers representative and fair.”

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