Festival Events 2016

Celebrating and Honouring Mexican Writers

Scottish PEN and the Scottish Writers’ Centre are holding an event to honour and celebrate the lives of courageous writes who are no longer with us, and honour the courage of the living, particularly the brave writers who speak out against corrupt regimes.

Journalist and writer, Jean Rafferty of Scottish PEN will be hosting an event with readings from a new book, Sorrows of Mexico, sharing stories from one of the most dangerous countries in the world for expressing the right to freedom of expression.

Jean Rafferty is an award winning journalist and author of The Four Marys, Saraband Books (2004), and Myra, Beyond Saddleworth, Wild Wolf Publishing (2012). Jean is passionately committed to freedom of expression and is Chair of Scottish PEN's, Writers at Risk Committee (WAR), who campaign for imprisoned and persecuted writers.