As playwright and director, I have staged productions which have been met with reproach and threats. I write about dysfunctions and political aberrations, and these topics have ruffled not a few sensibilities. I will talk about the pressures writing and producing plays have given me (joining some of the leading writers in Asia and the Pacific) at the 7th Asia Pacific Writers and Translators in Singapore, July 17-20. Over 130 writers, publishers, literary agents, festival directors, editors and many others are joining us from Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Italy, Hong Kong, Japan, Mainland China, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand, UK, the USA and Vietnam. My schedule: July 18 @ the Art House, Singapore. 2:00 Chamber Writing Under Political Pressure. ‘Prison Makes Poets of Us All’ wrote Filipino political prisoner Alan Jasmines. Maria Carmen Sarimiento discusses the literary work of some political prisoners in the Philippines. Steven Fernandez writes and performs stories close to real events in traditional highly politicised Islamic communities sensitive to Western liberal ideas. At the age of 19 Jose Dalisay was himself a political prisoner for seven months under Filipino martial law (1973) and wrote his first novel about that experience (1992). Lily Rose Tope explores the effects of laws against public expression on the writings of Singaporean and Malaysian writers. Alfred Birnbaum comments on the censored work of Burmese novelist Nu Nu Yi. Moderated by Michael Vatikiotis. apwriters.org/singapore-2014-conference/program-singapore-2014/
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