Posted on 04/28/2015 6:32:05 PM PDT by pluvmantelo
Six prominent writers are boycotting a major US literary event over plans to give satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo a freedom of speech award.
Authors including The English Patient writer Michael Ondaatje and Peter Carey will not attend the PEN Literary Gala in New York on 5 May.
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Spoken from a man who knows what it's like to defy Islam.
I hated the movie “The English Patient” - god-awful pretentious rubbish.
Now 20 years later, I have another reason.
Ondaatje is Sri Lankan. Taiye Selasi and Teju Cole are Nigerian. Muslim?
Here’s an idea. These authors can attend a literary award ceremony sponsored by ISIS in Syria. They can be nominated, be given the award, make their acceptance speech and then have their heads cut off. Makes it hard to be an nominee for next year’s award.
Yes. Who gives a damn about a bunch of politically correct cowards? Not moi! Not mon chats!
Cowards!!!
My sentiments exactly save that I would say it all in English. Who the heck are these pretentious, no resume freaks?
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