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From: Susanna Reich <reichgolio_at_verizon.net>
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 16:06:47 -0400
A video of the Children's Rights panel at the 2012 PEN World Voices Festival is now available online at
In this 68-minute video, National Book Award Finalist Debby Dahl Edwardson, author of /My Name Is Not Easy, /speaks about the loss of indigenous languages among Native American peoples; National Book Award Finalist Patricia McCormick and Cambodian Khmer Rouge Genocide survivor Arn Chorn-Pond talk about McCormick's new book, /Never Fall Down,/ based on Chorn-Pond's life; and Polish journalist Wojciech Jagielski, author of the book for adults, /The Night Wanderers, /discusses the plight of child soldiers in the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda.
Drawing on personal experience as authors and activists, the panelists also talk about the history of the Children's Rights Movement; the "Year of Janusz Korczak," commemorating 70 years since the children's rights pioneer perished at Treblinka with his charges from the Warsaw Ghetto orphanage; the role of writers as witnesses to human rights violations; how authors cope with the emotional challenges of writing about difficult and troubling subjects; and how past atrocities can inform contemporary advocacy.
Susanna Reich Chair, PEN Children's and Young Adult Book Authors Committee reichgolio_at_verizon.net
Received on Mon 04 Jun 2012 04:06:47 PM CDT
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 16:06:47 -0400
A video of the Children's Rights panel at the 2012 PEN World Voices Festival is now available online at
In this 68-minute video, National Book Award Finalist Debby Dahl Edwardson, author of /My Name Is Not Easy, /speaks about the loss of indigenous languages among Native American peoples; National Book Award Finalist Patricia McCormick and Cambodian Khmer Rouge Genocide survivor Arn Chorn-Pond talk about McCormick's new book, /Never Fall Down,/ based on Chorn-Pond's life; and Polish journalist Wojciech Jagielski, author of the book for adults, /The Night Wanderers, /discusses the plight of child soldiers in the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda.
Drawing on personal experience as authors and activists, the panelists also talk about the history of the Children's Rights Movement; the "Year of Janusz Korczak," commemorating 70 years since the children's rights pioneer perished at Treblinka with his charges from the Warsaw Ghetto orphanage; the role of writers as witnesses to human rights violations; how authors cope with the emotional challenges of writing about difficult and troubling subjects; and how past atrocities can inform contemporary advocacy.
Susanna Reich Chair, PEN Children's and Young Adult Book Authors Committee reichgolio_at_verizon.net
Received on Mon 04 Jun 2012 04:06:47 PM CDT
