© Laura Poitras Liberty and Recognition for Edward Snowden Worldwide Reading on September 8 th, 2014

Angola José Eduardo Agualusa Eduardo Sguiglia Australia Brian Castro | Richard Flanagan | Gail Jones | Mike A Manifesto for the Truth by Edward Snowden Shuttleworth | Herbert Wharton Austria Haimo L. Handl | Josef Haslinger | Elfriede Jelinek | Eva Menasse | Haralampi Oroschakoff In a very short time, the world has learned much about unaccount- Bahrain Ameen Saleh Belgium Stefan Hertmans Bosnia-Herzegovina Faruk Šehi Ricardo Azevedo Bulgaria Ilija Trojanow | able secret agencies and about sometimes illegal surveillance pro- Tzveta Sofronieva Canada Brian Brett | Michael Day | Paul Dutton | Greg Gatenby | Michael Ondaatje | Madeleine Thien | Miriam Toews grams. Sometimes the agencies even deliberately try to hide their Ariel Dorfman China Xiaolu Guo | Lian Yang | Liao Yiwu Colombia Winston Morales Chavarro | Rafael Patiño Góez | Fernando surveillance of high officials or the public. While the NSA and GCHQ Rendón | Laura Restrepo Cyprus Stephanos Stephanides Denmark Christian Jungersen | Pia Tafdrup | Janne Teller Egypt Mekkawi seem to be the worst offenders – this is what the currently available Said Estonia Hasso Krull | Jüri Talvet Finland JK Ihalainen France Camille de Toledo | Abdelwahab Meddeb | Mariette Navarro | documents suggest – we must not forget that mass surveillance is a global problem in need of global solutions. Christian Salmon Germany Jan Assmann | Güner Yasemin Balci | Wilhelm Bartsch | Marica Bodroži | Thomas Böhm | Mirko Bonné | Such programs are not only a threat to privacy, they also threaten Martin Buchholz | Irene Dische | Ute Frevert | Jochen Gerz | Christian Grote | Finn-Ole Heinrich | Ulrich Horstmann | Rolf Hosfeld | Florian freedom of speech and open societies. The existence of spy tech- Kessler | Sibylle Knauss | Michael Kumpfmüller | Jürgen Lodemann | Markus Metz | Brigitte Oleschinski | Elisabeth Plessen | Christoph nology should not determine policy. We have a moral duty to ensure Rieger | Moritz Rinke | Veronika Rotfuß | Joachim Sartorius | Ulrich Schreiber | Christa Schuenke | Ingo Schulze | Nadja Sennewald | that our laws and values limit monitoring programs and protect Brittani Sonnenberg | Kanta Talukdar-Stanchina | Antje Strubel | Peter Völker | Keto von Waberer | Joachim Walther | Hans-Eckardt human rights. Wenzel | Herbert Wiesner | Juli Zeh Great Britain Martin Amis | Priya Basil | Louis de Bernières | Don Paterson | Taiye Selasi | George Society can only understand and control these problems through an Szirtes | Marina Warner | Irvine Welsh Greece Filippos Mandilaras | Amanda Michalopoulou | Haris Vlavianos Greenland Jessie open, respectful and informed debate. At first, some governments Kleemann Hungary György Dragomán Iceland Hallgrimur Helgason | Birgitta Jónsdóttir | Andri Magnason India Omair Ahmad | feeling embarrassed by the revelations of mass surveillance initiated Naveen Kishore | Kiran Nagarkar | K. Satchidanandan Indonesia Dorothea Rosa Herliany | Afrizal Malna Iraq Samuel Shimon Iran an unprecedented campaign of persecution to supress this debate. Amir Cheheltan | Bahiyyih Nakhjavani Ireland Gabriel Rosenstock Israel Raquel Chalfi Italy Giovanni Bachelet | Stefania Battistella They intimidated journalists and criminalized publishing the truth. At | Beppe Costa | Luca "Lagash" Saporiti | Francesca Melandri | Igor Tuveri Jordan Fakhri Saleh Kenya Ngwatilo Mawiyoo | Binyavanga this point, the public was not yet able to evaluate the benefits of the revelations. They relied on their governments to decide correctly. Wainaina Lebanon Iman Humaydan Libya Ashur Etwebi Macedonia Lidija Dimkovska | Jasna Koteska | Today we know that this was a mistake and that such action does Betty Aridjis | Chloe Aridjis | Coral Bracho | Lydia Cacho Morocco Fatema Mernissi Anneke Brassinga | Geert Mak New not serve the public interest. The debate which they wanted to pre- Zealand David Howard Nicaragua Claribel Alegria | Gioconda Belli Nigeria Obi Nwakanma Norway Ingeborg Arvola | Paal-Helge vent will now take place in countries around the world. And instead Haugen | Eirik Ingebrigtsen | KarlOve Knausgård | Jan Erik Vold Pakistan Nadeem Aslam Palestine Liana Badr Peru Patricia de of doing harm, the societal benefits of this new public knowledge is Souza Portugal Pedro Rosa Mendes Andrei Codrescu Slovenia Aleš Debeljak South Africa Breyten Breytenbach | Brian now clear, since reforms are now proposed in the form of increased Castro Sweden Agneta Falk | Moni Nilsson | Annika Thor Switzerland Peter Stamm USA Charles Bernstein | Toby Blomé | Noam oversight and new legislation. Chomsky | Jennifer Clement | Jeffrey Eugenides | Isabel Fargo Cole | Carolyn Forche | Robert L. Hass | Jack Hirschman | Marilyn Hacker | Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital Michael Palmer | Jon Thompson | Anne Waldman | Eliot Weinberger Uruguay Jorge Palma public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime. Information about places and times of the worldwide readings see www.worldwide-reading.com

14 th international literature festival 10 th – 2 0 th September 2014