In April we made an appeal, together with the Nobel Prize Winners John M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Seamus Heaney, Elfriede Jelinek and over one hundred other authors from every continent, for a worldwide reading of texts by the Chinese author Liao Yiwu on June 4th 2010, the 21st commemorative day of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing. In the German-speaking regions alone there will be more than ten readings, including ...