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Event
- Title:
- Koestler - The Indispensable Intellectual
- When:
- 16.02.2010 13.00 h
- Where:
- Free Word Centre - Farringdon
- Category:
- Poetry/Prose/Books
Description
Michael Scammell discusses his acclaimed biography of Arthur Koestler – writer, journalist and author of Darkness at Noon, one of the finest political novels of the 20th century.
Koestler was witness to some of the major events of his day: a young communist who turned against
Stalin after the first show trials, an early chronicler of Zionism, a prisoner during the Spanish Civil War, a refugee from Nazi Europe. Koestler was ahead of his time: an intellectual and visionary, whose novels, non-fiction and adventurous life story are a fascinating chronicle of the last century.
Michael Scammell is the award-winning author of Solzhenitsyn, A Biography. He has translated numerous books from Russian, including Nabokov's The Defense. He is the founder and first editor of Index on Censorship and is a vice president of International PEN. He teaches at Columbia University.
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Venue
- Venue:
- Free Word Centre - Website
- Street:
- 60 Farringdon Rd
- ZIP:
- EC1R 3GA
- City:
- Farringdon
- State:
- London
- Country:
- UK
Description
Free Word works to promote, protect and democratise the power of the written and spoken word, nationally and internationally.
Phone: 0207 3242 570
Tube: Farringdon
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