Are Israeli writers going to desert the Turin book fair ?

After Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arablia, Iran has just announced that it too intends to boycott the Turin Book Fair next May and the Paris Book Fair this March 14-19. Both events have invited Israeli writers as guests of honour. For Pierluigi Battista, "The threat of a boycott is once again casting a menacing and paradoxically triumphant shadow. Cultural authorities may well have reacted against the censors who want to deprive Israeli writers the right to speak in both salons, but rumours that the biggest Israeli writers are going to pull out have not been completely denied. The different calls for a boycott will have obtained their goal if the book fairs are abandoned by Abraham Yehoshua, David Grossman or Amos Oz, Israel's most representative writers."

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