Английская Википедия:Amanuel Asrat
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Amanuel Asrat (born 1971)[1] is an Eritrean poet and former editor-in-chief of Addis Zemen.[2]
A graduate of the University of Asmara, he is "largely credited for the Eritrean poetry resurgence of the early 2000s", as reported by The Guardian.[3] In 2001, Amanuel together with two colleagues set up a grassroots literary club, and similar clubs were soon established across the country.[1][3]
Asrat was arrested on 23 September 2001, along with 16 other journalists that year in the wake of a crackdown on the press in Eritrea, and is believed to be detained in a maximum security prison, although his whereabouts and state of health remain unknown.[4][5][6]
In 2016, he was the recipient of an Oxfam Novib/PEN Award, accepted on his behalf by Eritrean-born Dutch journalist Habtom Yohannes.[7]
In 2020, poet and activist Linton Kwesi Johnson, who was that year's winner of the PEN Pinter Prize (launched in 2009 by English PEN, a charity that defends freedom of expression and celebrates literature, in memory of playwright Harold Pinter),[8][9] named Asrat as the "International Writer of Courage" with whom he chose to share the award.[10][6][11]
Awards
- 2016: Oxfam Novib/PEN Award[1][12]
- 2020: PEN Pinter Prize International Writer of Courage Award[13][14]
References
External links
- "Twenty years on – imprisoned without trial, but never forgotten: Amanuel Asrat", Eritrea Hub', 12 September 2021.
