Fabrieksprijs Literature suppressed on social grounds – Dawn B. Sova

Throughout history, tyrants, totalitarian states, church institutions, and democratic governments alike have banned books that challenged their assumptions or questioned their authority. Even today, attempts by school boards, local governments, and religious fanatics to restrict our freedom to read continue.The four-volume Banned Books collection focuses on more than 400 works that have been censored for their political, social, religious, or erotic content — in the United States and around the world — fr…