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Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Dostoyevsky book among hundreds banned in Kuwait

Information ministry blacklists The Brothers Karamazov and other titles at book festival

Kuwaiti authorities have blacklisted nearly 1,000 books at a literature festival, including one by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Saad al-Anzi, who heads the Kuwait international literary festival, said the information ministry had banned 948 books including Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, a novel set in 19th-century Russia that explores morality, free will and the existence of God.

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