{"id":27728,"date":"2011-10-11T14:03:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T13:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=27728"},"modified":"2011-10-12T10:32:11","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T09:32:11","slug":"italy-writer-wins-free-speech-prize-for-mafia-expose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=27728","title":{"rendered":"Italy: Writer wins free-speech prize for mafia expos\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a title=\"Associated Press - Italian wins free-speech prize for mafia expose\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hdrAa0zA3oi5oxg62SPTZJc1QpCQ?docId=ccd9a3a9945d4c718915ec5779317795\">Italian writer<\/a> who exposed the violent world of the <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Italy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Italy\" target=\"_blank\">Naples<\/a> Mafia was awarded a major free-speech prize yesterday. <a title=\"Roberto Saviano\" href=\"http:\/\/www.robertosaviano.it\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roberto Saviano<\/a> was awarded the Pen\/Pinter International <a title=\"English Pen - Pen\/Pinter prize\" href=\"http:\/\/www.englishpen.org\/prizes\/penpinterprize\/\" target=\"_blank\">Writer of Courage prize<\/a>, to share with\u00a0British playwright David Hare. Saviano&#8217;s book, &#8220;Gomorrah&#8221;, which was published in 2006, exposed Naples&#8217; criminal underworld, and the publication of the book led to death threats to the writer, who was forced to go into hiding. Saviano did not attend the ceremony, but sent a <a title=\"English Pen - Roberto Saviano wins the PEN\/Pinter International Writer of Courage Award 2011\" href=\"http:\/\/www.englishpen.org\/news\/_1703\/\">message expressing<\/a> his gratitude &#8220;to those who made it possible that my words became dangerous for certain powers that need silence and shade.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Italian writer who exposed the violent world of the Naples Mafia was awarded a major free-speech prize yesterday. Roberto Saviano was awarded the Pen\/Pinter International Writer of Courage prize, to share with\u00a0British playwright David Hare. Saviano&#8217;s book, &#8220;Gomorrah&#8221;, which was published in 2006, exposed Naples&#8217; criminal underworld, and the publication of the book led [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[1458,3892,7388,3890,3891],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27728"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27749,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27728\/revisions\/27749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}