Friday, June 22, 2012

Alice Walker rejects offer to translate her book "The Colour Purple" into Hebrew as protest against Israel's "apartheid" policy...

American author Alice Walker has refused to allow a new edition of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple to be released in Hebrew by an Israeli publisher.

She announced the decision on Wednesday in a move aimed to voice her opposition to the Jewish entity’s “apartheid,” policy and its cruel treatment of the Palestinian people.

In a letter sent to Yediot Books, the publisher which had sought rights to print a Hebrew edition of Walker’s novel, the pro-Palestine writer and activist said, “I am hopeful that one day, maybe soon, this (release of the book) may happen. But now is not the time.”

According to the chief editor of Yediot Books, Netta Gurevich, Walker is not the first writer who does not want her works to be published in Israel. Full story...

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