Freedom to Publish news

Chinese publisher, poet and essayist, Bei Ling, who in 1993 founded Tendency, an exile literary journal published in Chinese until 2000, is one of five...

Bangladeshi publisher Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury, who was nearly killed by Islamist extremists in October 2015, is among the five finalists for the 2016...

The IPA has been making further inroads into Latin America after Secretary General José Borghino joined the first ever meeting in Havana, Cuba, of IPA...

Interviewed recently by Benedicte Page for The Bookseller, Richard Charkin talks about the challenges and achievements of his first 12 months as IPA president.
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The murderous attacks on Bangladeshi publishers and writers over the weekend are direct attacks on the freedom to publish — a fundamental freedom in all...

William Nygaard was shot outside his home after he published Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses in Norway. We interviewed him about publishers' responsibilities in upholding...

Each year, the Turkish Publishers Association presents Freedom of Thought and Expression Awards to authors and publishers who are fighting to uphold freedom of expression....

South African political cartoonist Zapiro (aka Jonathan Shapiro) was the winner of the 2012 IPA Freedom to Publish Prize. In the wake of the January...

Ihar Lohvinau, the Belarusian publisher who won the IPA 2014 Freedom to Publish Prize has been honoured at a special ceremony in Vilnius, organised by...