http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12249305
Jan 21th 2011 by BBC News | UK
Orhan Pamuk and Kiran Desai have both won a prize for their novel, although they have pulled out of Sri Lanka’s main literary festival. The Turkish couple had to leave the festival due to another appointment in another country. This has made that they are not welcome to come back anymore. According to the tourist visa, they cannot enter the country within the next two months. The couple has announced that they are very disappointed about this and they are regretting the decision of the organisers of the festival.
The Jaipur Literature Festival in India is its most important one for literature, but is also known for its free speech. It is hard in India to be a journalist or author. In the past year there has been many writers who have become victims by the current government. It is too bad that the prize winners are not allowed to come back, but the organizers do have tried to resolve the problems with the visa. I think it is a good thing that they have tried, but it is hard and often impossible in India to dissolve such problems.
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