{"id":7496,"date":"2010-01-26T14:13:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T14:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=7496"},"modified":"2012-04-25T17:29:56","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T16:29:56","slug":"koestler-the-indispensible-intellectual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=7496","title":{"rendered":"PAST EVENT: Koestler – The Indispensable Intellectual"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday 16 February 1pm<\/p>\n

Michael Scammell<\/strong> discusses his acclaimed biography of Arthur Koestler<\/a> –\u2013 writer, journalist and author of Darkness at Noon, one of the finest political novels of the 20th century.<\/p>\n

Koestler was witness to some of the major events of his day: a young communist who turned against Stalin after the first show trials, an early chronicler of Zionism, a prisoner during the Spanish Civil War, a refugee from Nazi Europe. Koestler was ahead of his time: an intellectual and visionary, whose novels, non-fiction and adventurous life story are a fascinating chronicle of the last century.<\/p>\n

Michael Scammell is the award-winning author of Solzhenitsyn, A Biography. He has translated numerous books from Russian, including Nabokov’s The Defense. He is the founder and first editor of Index on Censorship and is a vice president of International PEN. He teaches at Columbia University.<\/p>\n

To reserve a place call: 0207 324 2570 or email bookings@freewordonline.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Koestler – The Indispensable Intellectual: Michael Scammell at the Free Word Centre, Tuesday 16 February 1pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[7],"tags":[1690,1691],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7496"}],"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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7496"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8183,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7496\/revisions\/8183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}