Italian wins free-speech prize for mafia expose

Italian wins free-speech prize for mafia expose London: Italian writer Roberto Saviano, who has lived under police protection since penning 2006 bestseller 'Gomorrah' about Naples' mafia, has won the PEN/Pinter International Writer of Courage Award. Saviano, 32, shares the award with Briton David Hare, who is perhaps best known for his work about British institutions. Each year a British writer is honored with the PEN/Pinter award, established in 2009 by literary and human rights organization PEN in...
11:02 AM, Oct 11, 2011

Plot sickens: Italian Mafia orders writer’s murder

Plot sickens: Italian Mafia orders writer’s murder Author angered mob by exposing brutality, crimes in his book. ...
05:08 PM, Oct 14, 2008
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