Shahrazad - Stories for life

On Valentine's Day, Stavanger City of Refuge and Shahrazad - stories for life
offer a heartwarming evening of poetry and music from around the world.

ICORN Guest Writer and filmmaker Prudence Uriri teaches film and is working on her next project, "After the Storm". This film has received support from Shahrazad's Neighbourhood Challenge, and will be made in cooperation with producers Elisabeth O. Sjaastad and Bob Coen.

When Musa Mutaev's first book of stories from Chechnya, I Kuntas skygge (In the shadow of Kunta), was published in Norway in 2007, critics called it "a masterpiece in modern European literature". In his latest book, Inntil morgendagen kommer (Until Tomorrow Comes), Mutaev brings new stories about the Chechen culture, history and present, and this time critics call it "a rare and distinguished read".

Austrian PEN's Helmut A. Niederle has just published an anthology with texts of fiction, poetry and non fiction from altogether 56 persecuted writers, who either are imprisoned in their homelands or driven into exile only for executing their basic rights of freedom of expression.