Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Seriously

Iran's government is holding its first Satirical Book of the Year awards.

I'm not kidding. One of the world's more repressive regimes, which regularly restricts publishers and bans books (ses details here, here, and here) hopes to "help raise the status of satire in Iran."

Details of the awards are here. Winners will be announced December 16.--David E

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