Culture|The Russian attack
In the statement, the authors condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and demanded the restoration of peace.
Sadat writers around the world have signed a statement in support of Ukraine. In the statement, the authors condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and demanded the restoration of peace.
The signatories include the Belarusian Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexeyevich, Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster, Jonathan Franzen, Siri HustvedtTurkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, Salman RushdiePolish Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk and Russian Lyudmila Ulitskaya.
The signatories also include more than a hundred Finnish authors who received an invitation through the Finnish PEN. The full statement with signatures is available for reading here and in Finnish, without signatures here. The letter has also been published in Ukrainian, Russian and Arabic.
Pen has made a statement in connection with writers in Ukraine, as well as the administration and the international community.
In the letter it is said that the war launched by Putin is an “attack on democracy and freedom, not just in Ukraine but all over the world” and states that “without a free and independent Ukraine there can be no free and secure Europe”.
On Sunday, the Finnish PEN also published on its website Jouni Inkalan written by poem in support of Ukraine.
Russian cultural figures have also criticized Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The HS said on Friday that a large section of Russia’s cultural population has spoken out loud against the war, even many of those who have otherwise taken a quieter line, such as people working on state channels.
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