Liao Yiwu discovers Germany and this weekend Paris.

Following the likely intervention of Chancellor Angela Merkel, to whom he had written a letter, the writer Liao Yiwu was allowed to travel to Germany for the Frankfurt Book Fair and to meet his readers. His translator in France, Marie Holzman, was able to arrange his coming to Paris and led a discussion in the major bookshop The Phoenix.

A talented witness:

His job is to be the witness of those who can not manage … Lire la suite