Questions tagged [censorship]
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Was the end of the censorship of Magda Szabó's work directly related to events in 1956 or the Hungarian Thaw?
The Wikipedia article about Magda Szabó says,
In 1949 she was awarded the Baumgarten Prize, which was immediately withdrawn when Szabó was labeled an enemy to the Communist Party. (...) The Stalinist ...
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In which countries has Persepolis been banned?
Given its unflattering depiction of life in a certain type of society, I'm guessing that Persepolis may have been banned in more than one country in the past, but I'm not sure where to find this ...
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In which countries was "The Story of Ferdinand" banned?
On the Wikipedia page for The Story of Ferdinand, it says this:
The book was released nine months before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, and was seen by many supporters of Francisco Franco ...
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Evidence for the claim that placing Gide's works in the Index of Forbidden Books scandalised the author's admirers?
The French author André Gide (1869 – 1951) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947. The author died in February 1951; in the following year, the Vatican placed his works on the Index of ...
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