To our friends and colleagues in Ukraine,
We, writers around the world, are appalled by the violence unleashed by Russian forces against Ukraine and urgently call for an end to the bloodshed.
We stand united in condemnation of a senseless war, waged by President Putin’s refusal to accept the rights of Ukraine’s people to debate their future allegiance and history without Moscow’s interference.
We stand united in support of writers, journalists, artists, and all the people of Ukraine, who are living through their darkest hours. We stand by you and feel your pain.
All individuals have a right to peace, free expression, and free assembly. Putin’s war is an attack on democracy and freedom not just in Ukraine, but around the world.
We stand united in calling for peace and for an end to the propaganda that is fueling the violence.
There can be no free and safe Europe without a free and independent Ukraine.
Peace must prevail.
Signatories
Burhan Sonmez, Svetlana Alexievitch, Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Anthony Doerr, Jonathan Franzen, Aleksandar Hemon, Siri Hustvedt, Yann Martel, Joyce Carol Oates, Orhan Pamuk, Maria Ressa, Elif Shafak, Colm Toibin, Olga Tokarczuk, Ludmila Ulitskaya.
Jane Aaron, Evelyne Abitbol, Gabriela Adameșteanu, Kathrin Aehnlich, Inger-Mari Aikio, Ayad Akhtar, Bjanka Alajbegović, Päivi Alasalmi, Frank Albrecht, Amir Alić, Carlos Alonso Aníbal, Najat Alsamad Abed, Vicenç Altaió, Armas Alvari, Hazem Al Amin, Frances An, Ida Andersen, Henrika Andersson, Ben Andoni, Stanko Andrić, Dan Anghelescu, Éilís Ní Anluain, Liviu Antonesei, Lisa Appignanesi, Marie Arana, George Ardeleanu, Chloe Aridjis, Homero Aridjis, Gabriele von Arnim, Alexander Arkhangelsky, Ingeborg Arlt, Jordi Bergonyó i Aroca, Damir Arsenijević, Mona Arshi, Lea Cohen-Augsburger, Anisa Avdagić, Mihail Ayzenberg, Marianne Backlén, Elena Baevskaya, Vasile Baghiu, Tomica Bajsić, Leonid Bakhnov, Catherine Banner, Snježana Banović, Jürgen Banscherus, Ekaterina Barabash, Renato Baretić, Sheila Barrett, Nune Barsegian, Cikuru Batumiké, Juergen Baumann, Nurcan Baysal, Youseff Bazzi, Adisa Bašić, Almir Bašović, Germaine Beaulieu, Dirk-Uwe Becker, Simon Beckett, Sharmilla Beezmohun, Seida Beganović, Nadezhda Belenkaya, Amanda Bell, Gaston Bellemare, Timba Bema, Abdelkader Benali, Grațiela Benga, Vicent Berenguer, François Berger, Tewin van den Bergh, Mal Berisha, Michèle Bernard, Vicenç Llorca Berrocal, Rosaleen Bertolino, Abbass Beydoun, Emilie Bilman, Ana Blandiana, Sylvia Bledow, Gerda Blees, Anna Blume, Isabel Bogdan, Iulian Boldea, Fióna Bolger, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Barbara Bongartz, Javier Bonilla, Virginie Borel, Virginie Borel, Carmen Borja, Marina Boroditskaya, Alla Bossart, August Bover, Corin Braga, Colm Breathnach, Marta Breen, Per Bregengaard, Alida Bremer, Alida Bremer, Hans Maarten vd Brink, Roberto Briones, Ricky Monahan Brown, Keira Brown, Marta Nadal Brunès, Mikael Brygger, Siv Bublitz, Simone Buchholz, Romulus Bucur, Olga Bukhina, Diana Burazer, Ahmed Burić, Dragan Bursać, Paddy Bushe, Anton Carrera i Busquets, Pat Butler, Ida Börjel, Jan Bürger, Oriol Pi de Cabanyes, Morana Čale, Jenni Calder, Lynn Caldwell, Drew Campbell, Siobhan Campbell, Daniel Canty, Eibhlis Carcione, Kristina Carlson, Antònia Carré-Pons, Àngels Castells Cabré, Dragica Čarna, Jaume Creus i del Castillo, Sara Martínez Castro, Arben Çejku, Branko Čegec, Ruxandra Cesereanu, Jade Chang, Natalia Chepik, Ron Chernow, Tatyana Chernysheva, Herménégilde Chiasson, Ioana Cistelecan, Antoni Clapés, Jennifer Clement, Nicolae Coande, Jonathan Coe, Anthony Cohan, Pep Coll, Marian Coman, Denisa Comănescu, Colm Mac Confhaola, Micheál Ó Conghaile, June Considine, Philippe Constantin, Angélica Altúzar Constantino, Liliana Corobca, Željka Čorak, Costigan, Florica Courriol, Robert Craven, Jaume Creus, Bogdan Crețu, Pádraig Ó Cuinneagáin, Tony Curtis, Darko Cvijetić, Grozdana Cvitan, Gearóidín Nic Cárthaigh, Magda Cârneci, Svetlana Cârstean, Bianca Côté, Mircea Cărtărescu, Nerzuk Ćurak, Denis Dabbadie, Gabriel Daliș, Joan eusa Dalmau, Hasan Daoud, Job Degenaar, Astrid Dehe, Marija Dejanović, Dinko Delić, Peter Demeny, Enkel Demi, Ajla Demiragić, Denise Desautels, Jean-Marc Desgent, Martina Devlin, Sadhbh Devlin, Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin, Margot Dijkgraaf, Vitaly Dikson, Simona-Grazia Dima, Adina Dinițoiu, Adriaan van Dis, Greg Dinner, Peggy Dobreer, Caius Dobrescu, Veronica Dolina, Salvador Domènechi Domènech, Jackie Mac Donncha, Gerry Mc Donnell, Katie Donovan, Ariel Dorfman, Theo Dorgan, Kevin Doyle, Elma Drayer, Proinsias Ó Drisceoil, Olga Drobot, Daniela Dröscher, Lison Dubreuil, Anne Duden, Dave Duggan, Catherine Dunne, Louise Dupré, Samantha Dunn, Can Dündar, Ferida Duraković, Denisa Duran, Don Duyns, Benedikt Dyrlich, Olga Xirinacs Díaz, Dan Dănilă, David Ebershoff, Horst Eckert, Jennifer Egan, Jari Ehrnrooth, Lizzie Eldridge, Menna Elfyn, Ayeshah Emon, Martin Enckell, Agneta Enckell, Michael Engler, Álvaro Enrigue, Markku Envall, Irjaleena Eriksson, Peter Lucas Erixon, Evgeny Ermolin, Victor Esipov, Paul Ewen, Belal Fadl, Daniel Falb, Maria Falikman, Elena Fanailova, Simon Ó Faoláin, Rafel Nadal Farreras, Sabina Fati, Lia Faur, Alexey Fedotov, Julian Fellowes, Betty Ferber, Ciara Ferguson, Viviana Fiorentino, Janet Fitch, Brid Fitzpatrick, Anne Fisher, Hana Fischer, Roman Fokin, Mathilde Fontanet, Assumpció Forcada, Sabine Forsblom, Tua Forsström, Fouad Fouad, David Francis, Julia Franck, Jonathan Franzen, Bashabi Fraser, Maureen Freely, Frederike Frei, Uwe Friesel, Anna Friman, Angela Furtună, Rita Gabis, Linda Gaboriau, Maria Galina, Mia Gallagher, Sergei Gandlevsky, Alisa Ganieva, Josep Rafel Cortés Garcia, Dominique Gaucher, Liliya Gazizova, Carlo Gebler, Eva Gedin, Stefan Gemmel, Alexander Genis, Nina George, Clive Geraghty, Yaseen Ghaleb, Rania Ghandour, Radu Pavel Gheo, Carmen Gheorghe, Cătălin Ghiță, Áíne Ní Ghlinn, Áine Ní Ghlinn, Bernard Gilbert, Shauna Gilligan, Daithí Mac Giobúin, Jo Glanville, Jacques T. 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