included the 2000 Nobel laureate, Gao Xingjian, who lives in exile in Paris, as well as his friend Liu Xiaobo, winner of the 2010 Nobel peace prize, a leading literary critic who is imprisoned in China. Liao Yiwu, an exiled writer living in Berlin, and popular London-based storyteller Ma Jian were also omitted, he noted.The arrival of a "state-sponsored delegation" from China has caused the English branch of the writers' association Pen to reduce its participation in this year's fair.
from The Guardian: London Book Fair criticised for inviting only state-approved Chinese writers
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