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A STAND FOR DEMOCRACY IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Petition by Writers Against Mass Surveillance
First Signatories (by countries):
ALBANIA Anila Wilms
ALGERIA Boualem Sansal
ANGOLA José Eduardo Agualusa
ARGENTINIA Maria Teresa Andruetto, Edgardo Cozarinsky, María Sonia
Cristoff, Marcelo Figueras, Carlos Gamerro, Alberto Manguel, Guillermo
Martinez, Elsa Osorio, Claudia Piñeiro, Samanta Schweblin.
AUSTRALIA Debra Adelaide, Chris Andrews, Venero Armanno, Larissa
Beherendt, James Bradley, Brian Castro, Nick Cave, Miriam Cosic,
Michelle de Kretser, Nick Earls, Delia Falconer, Anna Funder, Helen
Garner, Elisabeth Holdsworth, Linda Jaivin, Gail Jones, Evelyn Juers,
Thomas Keneally, Nam Le, James Ley, Angelo Loukakis, David Malouf,
Frank Moorhouse, Peter Rose, Rosie Scott, John Tranter, Kirsten
Tranter, Arnold Zable
AUSTRALIA/USA Lily Brett, Geraldine Brooks.
AUSTRIA Olga Flor, Karl-Markus Gauß, Thomas Glavinic, Josef
Haslinger, Monika Helfer, Klaus Hoffer, Alois Hotschnig, Elfriede
Jelinek, Michael Köhlmeier, Eva Menasse, Robert Menasse, Robert
Pfaller, Doron Rabinovici, Kathrin Röggla, David Schalko, Robert
Schindel, Clemens J Setz, Marlene Streeruwitz, Peter Weibel, Josef
Winkler
AUSTRIA/GERMANY Daniel Kehlmann
BANGLADESH Ahmad Mostofa Kamal
BANGLADESH/UK Tahmima Anam
BELARUS Svetlana Alexievich
BELARUS/USA Valzhyna Mort
BELGIUM Gie Bogaert, Saskia De Coster, Patrick De Rynck, Jozef Deleu,
Laurent Demoulin, Charles Ducal, Joris Gerits, Jos Geysels, Luuk
Gruwez, Thomas Gunzig, Peter Holvoet-Hanssen, Elisabeth Marain, Pierre
Mertens, Bart Moeyaert, Elvis Peeters, Erik Spinoy, Rik Torfs, Koen Van
Bockstal, Walter van den Broeck, Miriam Van hee, David van Reybrouck,
Annelies Verbeke, Paul Verhaeghe, Roel Verschueren, Erik Vlaminck,
Georges Wildemeersch
BELGIUM/FRANCE Carl Norac
BELGIUM/NETHERLANDS Joke van Leeuwen
BOSNIA Miljenko Jergovic
BRAZIL Marçal Aquino, Rafael Cardoso, Bernardo Carvalho, João Paulo
Cuenca, João Ubaldo Ribeiro, Luiz Ruffato, Paulo Scott
BULGARIA Georgi Gospodinov
BULGARIA/UK Kapka Kassabova
CAMEROON Patrice Nganang
CANADA Margaret Atwood, Ken Babstock, Cory Doctorow, Yann Martel,
Colin McAdam, Michael Ondaatje, John Ralston Saul, Madeleine Thien
CHILE Carla Guelfenbein, Arturo Fontaine Talavera
CHILE/ARGENTINA/USA Ariel Dorfman
CHILE/USA Lina Meruane
CHINA Liao Yiwu
COLOMBIA Antonio Ungar, Héctor Abad, Oscar Collazos, Oscar
Guardiola-Rivera, Juan Gabriel Vásquez
CROATIA Slavenka Drakulic, Nenad Popovic, Dubravka Ugrešic
CUBA Leonardo Padura Fuentes
CUBA/SPAIN Iván de la Nuez
Cuba/USA José Prieto
CZECH REP Jaroslav Rudi
DENMARK Niels Barfoed, Suzanne Brøgger, Tom Buk-Swienty, Peter H
Fogtdal, Katrine Marie Guldager, Iselin C Hermann, Peter Høeg, Sven
Holm, Hanne Vibeke Holst, Carsten Jensen, Pia Juul, Peter Øvig Knudsen,
Morten Kringelbach, Jørgen Leth, Ib Michael, Morten Ramsland, Morten
Sabroe, Pia Tafdrup, Janne Teller
DJIBOUTI Abdourahman Waberi
ECUADOR Francisco Proaño Arandi
EGYPT Alaa al-Aswany, Nawal El Saadawi, Ahdaf Soueif
EGYPT/USA Mona Eltahawy
EL SALVADOR Horacio Castellanos Moya
FINLAND Monika Fagerholm, Jarkko Tontti, Kjell Westö
FRANCE Jean-Jacques Beineix, Céline Curiol, Marie Darrieussecq,
Philippe Djian, Lionel Duroy, Mathias Énard, Jérôme Ferrari, Anne-Marie
Garat, Laurent Gaudé, Pascale Hugues, Alban Lefranc , Roger Lenglet ,
Virginie Lou-Nony , Jean Mattern , Betty Mialet , Catherine Millet ,
Frédéric Mitterrand , Hélène Neveu Kringelbach , Philippe Pozzo di
Borgo , Flore Vasseur
FRANCE/CANADA Martin Winckler
France/USA Jonathan Littell
GERMANY Friedrich Ani, Michael Augustin, Anke Bastrop, Ulrich Beck,
Artur Becker, Josef Bierbichler, Marica Bodroži´c, Mirko Bonné, Ralf
Bönt, Nora Bossong, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Daniela Dahn, Liane Dirks,
Doris Dörrie, Ulrike Draesner, Kurt Drawert, Tanja Dückers, Carolin
Emcke, Sherko Fatah, David Finck, Julia Franck, Franziska Gerstenberg,
Christoph Giesa, Roman Graf, Günter Grass, Kerstin Grether, Annett
Gröschner, Gert Heidenreich, Christoph Hein, Thomas Hettche, Paul
Ingendaay, Steffen Kopetzky, Mareike Krügel, Michael Krüger, Michael
Kumpfmüller, Antje Kunstmann, Katja Lange-Müller, Benjamin Lauterbach,
Jo Lendle, Michael Lentz, Ulli Lust, Angelina Maccarone, Kristof
Magnusson, Sten Nadolny, Christiane Neudecker, Norbert Niemann, Ingo
Niermann, Markus Orths, Georg M Oswald, Inka Parei, Annette Pehnt,
Antje Rávic Strubel, Annika Reich, Moritz Rinke, Charlotte Roos, Eugen
Ruge, Peter Schneider, Erasmus Schöfer, Ingo Schulze, Hilal Sezgin,
Peter Sloterdijk, Tilman Spengler, Burkhard Spinnen, Ulrike Steglich,
Hans-Ulrich Treichel, Ilija Trojanow, Regula Venske, Marius von
Mayenburg, Thomas von Steinaecker, Gisela von Wysocki, Jan Wagner,
Alissa Walser, Theresia Walser, Florian Werner, Roger Willemsen, Ron
Winkler, Juli Zeh, Jan Christophersen
GHANA/USA Kwame Dawes
GREECE Kostas Akrivos , Petros Markaris, Amanda Michalopoulos,
Michailis Modinos, Nina Rapi, Thanassis Valtinos
HAITI/USA Edwidge Danticat
HONG KONG/USA Xu Xi Hong
HUNGARY Tibor Babiczky, Zsófia Balla, Zsófia Bán, Báthori Csaba,
György Dragomán, Peter Esterhazy, Krisztián Grecsó, Noémi Kiss, László
Krasznahorkai, Lajos Parti Nagy, Anna T. Szabó
ICELAND Björk, Oddný Eir, Einar Már Guðmundsson, Hallgrímur Helgason,
Bjarni Jónsson, Andri Snær Magnason, Steinnun Sigurðardóttir, Sjón,
Jón Kalman Stefánsson
INDIA Shahid Amin, Amit Chaudhuri, Tishani Doshi, Naresh Fernandes,
Amitav Ghosh, Ramchandra Guha, Anjum Hassan, Ranjit Hoskoté, Raj Kamal
Jha, Anjali Joseph, Ruchir Joshi, Girish Karnad, Mukul Kesavan, Amitava
Kumar, Pankaj Mishra, Kiran Nagarkar, Jerry Pinto, Arundhati Roy,
Arundhati Subramaniam, Jeet Thayil, Altaf Tyrewala
INDIA/UK Salil Tripathi, Suketu Mehta
IRAQ Jabbar Yassin Hussin
IRAQ/FINLAND Hassan Blasim
IRAQ/GERMANY Najem Wali
IRELAND Roddy Doyle, Colum McCann, Colm Tóibín
ISRAEL Assaf Gavron, David Grossman, Etgar Keret, Yitzhak Laor, Sami
Michael, Amos Oz, Zeruya Shalev
ITALY Andrea Bajani, Andrea de Carlo, Massimo Carlotto, Umberto Eco,
Erri de Luca, Paolo Giordano, Dacia Mariani
ITALY/AUSTRIA Sabine Gruber
JAPAN Tosihiko Uji, Jordan Elias Farkouh
LEBANON Dominique Eddé
LEBANON/CANADA Rawi Hage
LIBYA/EGYPT Ahmed Fagih
LUXEMBOURG Ranga Yogeshwar
MACEDONIA Nikola Madzirov
MALAWI Samson Kambalu
MALAYSIA Tan Twan Eng
MALTA Pierre Mejlak
MEXICO Rosa Beltrán, Sabina Berman, Carmen Boullosa, Ana Clavel, Alma
Guillermoprieto, Angeles Mastretta
NETHERLANDS René Appel, Abdelkader Benali, Ronald Bos, Ian Buruma,
Gerrit Bussink, Saskia de Jong, Job Degenaar, Renate Dorrestein, Rudolf
Geel, Arnon Grünberg, Joke J Hermsen, Marjolin Hof, Tjitske Jansen,
Liesbeth Lagemaat, Thomas Lieske, Geert Mak, Nelleke Noordervliet,
Ester Naomi Perquin, Aleid Truijens, Manon Uphoff, Jan van Mersbergen,
Anne Vegter
NEW ZEALAND Pip Adam, Tim Corballis, Nicky Hager, Ingrid Horrocks,
Lloyd Jones, Elizabeth Knox, Bill Manhire, Courtney Sina Meredith,
Sarah Quigley, Anna Sanderson, C. K. Stead
NEW ZEALAND/UK Susan Pearce
NIGERIA Helon Habila, Ben Okri, Chika Unigwe
NIGERIA/GERMANY Olumide Popoola
NORWAY Jostein Gaarder, Per Petterson
PAKISTAN Mohsin Hamid, Ahmed Rashid
PAKISTAN/UK Kamila Shamsie
PALESTINE Suad Amiry, Mourid Barghouti, Najwan Darwish, Nathalie
Handal, Raja Shehadeh, Adania Shibli, Ghassan Zaqtan
PALESTINE/ISRAEL Ala Hlehel
PERU Santiago Roncagliolo
PHILIPPINES/CANADA Miguel Syjuco
POLAND Ignacy Karpowicz, Beata Stasi´cska, Witold Szab´cowski, Olga
Tokarczuk
PORTUGAL Pedro Rosa Mendes
ROMANIA Mircea Cartarescu
RUSSIA Vladimir Aristov, Alan Cherchesov, Victor Erofeyev, Alisa
Ganiyeva, Dmitri Golynko, Alexander Ilichevsky, Sergei Lebedev,
Stanislav Lvovsky, Mikhail Shishkin, Alexander Skidan, Alexander
Snegiryov
SAMOA Albert Wendt
SENEGAL Cheikh Hamidou Kane
SERBIA David Albahari
SERBIA/CROATIA Bora ´Cosic
SLOVAKIA Michal Hvorecký
SLOVENIA Gabriela Babnik, Aleš Car, Aleš Debeljak, Mojca Kumerdej,
Miha Mazzini, Dušan Šarotar, Aleš Šteger
SOMALIA/SOUTH AFRICA Nuruddin Farah
SOUTH AFRICA Breyten Breytenbach, Antjie Krog, Zakes Mda, Margie
Orford, Henrietta Rose-Innes, Gillian Slovo, Ivan Vladislavi, Zukiswa
Wanner
SOUTH AFRICA/AUSTRALIA JM Coetzee
SOUTH KOREA Hwang Sok-Yong
SPAIN Ricardo Bada, Javier Cercas, Rafael Chirbes, Juan Goytisolo,
Julio Llamazares, Javier Marías, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Rosa Montero,
Javier Salinas.
SPAIN/GERMANY José F A Oliver
SUDAN Jamal Mahjoub
SWEDEN Arne Dahl, Per Olov Enquist, Aris Fioretos, Jan Guillou,
Björn Larsson, Henning Mankell, Håkan Nesser, Tomas Tranströmer, Svante
Weyler
SWITZERLAND Melinda Nadj Abonji, Sybille Berg, Peter Bieri, Irena
Brežná, Melitta Breznik, Iso Camartin, Alex Capus, Martin Dean, Catalin
Florescu, Christian Haller, Reto Hänny, Eveline Hasler, Franz Hohler,
Pedro Lenz, Charles Lewinsky, Klaus Merz, Julian Schütt, Peter Stamm,
Alain Sulzer, Urs Widmer
SYRIA Hala Mohammed
TANZANIA/UK Abdulrazak Gurnah
THAILAND/US Rattawut Lapcharoensap
TUNISIA/FRANCE Tahar Bekri
TURKEY Yasar Kemal, Murathan Mungun, Orhan Pamuk, Buket Uzuner
UK Akkas Al-Ali, Tariq Ali, David Almond, Martin Amis, Julian
Barnes, Priya Basil, John Berger, Jane Borodale, William Boyd, John
Burnside, Louis de Bernières, Isobel Dixon, Joanne Harris, Kazuo
Ishiguro, Pico Iyer, Stephen Kelman, Hari Kunzru, Ian McEwan, David
Mitchell, Stella Newman, Henry Porter, Martin Rowson, Manda Scott, Will
Self, Owen Sheers, Philip Sington, Tom Stoppard, Adam Thirwell, David
Vann, Nigel Warbuton, Irvine Welsh, Jeanette Winterson
UK/INDIA Rana Dasgupta, Nikita Lalwani
UK/JORDAN Fadia Faqir
UK/PAKISTAN Hanif Kureishi
UK/US Lionel Shriver
UKRAINE Myroslav Marynovych, Oksana Zabuzhko
USA John Ashbery, Paul Auster, Elise Blackwell, TC Boyle, Alexander
Chee, Isabel Fargo Cole, Billy Collins, Don DeLillo, Colin Dickey,
Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, Elizabeth Eslami, Richard Ford, Jorie
Graham, George Dawes Green, Joe Hurley, Elizabeth Kostova, Adrian
Nicole LeBlanc, Jonathan Lethem, Barry Lopez, Ben Marcus, Tyler
McMahon, Claire Messud, Josip Novakovich, George Packer, Tim Parrish,
Richard Powers, James Salter, Sapphire, Richard Sennett, Jane Smiley,
Anne Waldman, Alice Walker, Eliot Weinberger, Jeffrey Yang
USA/BOSNIA Aleksandar Hemon
USA/China Ha Jin
USA/ROMANIA Domnica Radulescu
ZIMBABWE Brian Chikwava, Peter Godwin
