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Banned Books Week Sweden

Banned Books Week Sweden is coordinated by Swedish PEN and the Dawit Isaak library

Banned Books Week Sweden 2023 is made possible by support from Catarina and Sven Hagströmer’s Foundation and Malmö City.

About Swedish PEN

Swedish PEN’s commitment is to defend the freedom of expression. Our task is based on the premise that the written word should know no borders, neither political, nor national, nor religious. The members of PEN support PEN’s charter, which highlights our responsibility to combat lies, racism, and hatred between ethnic groups and social classes.

Swedish PEN is a non-political, non-governmental organisation of writers, journalists, librarians, publishers, and other literary workers, and constitutes one of the more than one hundred PEN Centres in the global network PEN International.

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About The Dawit Isaak Library

The Dawit Isaak Library: your Freedom of Expression Library with banned and censored books from all over the world. Located in Malmö, Sweden, the library’s collection is made up of banned books from all over the world — books that were burned or censored, books that were written by people who were silenced, threatened, imprisoned, or forced into exile because of their words.

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Contact Us

This website is maintained and updated by the Banned Books Week Coordinator and the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom in partnership with the Banned Books Week Coalition. For questions concerning the website, please e-mail coordinator@bannedbooksweek.org

Banned Books Week is an annual event that highlights the value of free and open access to information. The event is supported by a coalition of organizations dedicated to free expression, including American Booksellers for Free Expression, American Library Association, American Society of Journalists and Authors, Amnesty International USA, Association of University Presses, Authors Guild, Banned Books Week Sweden, Children’s Book Council, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), Freedom to Read Foundation, GLAAD, Index on Censorship, Little Free Library, National Book Foundation, National Coalition Against Censorship, National Council of Teachers of English, PEN America, People For the American Way Foundation, PFLAG, and Project Censored. Banned Books Week also receives generous support from Penguin Random House. Banned Books Week is ® American Library Association.

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