Even today, the hunt for writers continues. They are threatened, attacked, imprisoned or forced into exile, when they are not coldly eliminated for daring to write. Who are they? What mechanisms do the authorities put in place to censor them?
The feature-length documentary that I am co-directing with Catherine Hébert started in Berlin. Our first in a long series of meetings opened the doors to the Turkish writer Aslı Erdoğan . Arrested, imprisoned then released in 2016, the author fled her country of origin.
Today, she has the generosity to tell us about her difficult exile, the weight of her pen, the meaning that novels take on when we try to burn them.
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