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Pages in category "Novels set in prison" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 1979 (novel) A.
In 1942 Jean Genet wrote his first novel Our Lady of the Flowers while in prison near Paris, scrawled on scraps of paper. [1] [7] Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote Letters and Papers from Prison whilst at Tegel Prison in 1943. Nigerian author Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed while in prison, and wrote Sozaboy, about a young naïve imprisoned soldier.
Novels set in prison (1 C, 34 P) P. Plays set in prison (1 C, 3 P) Prison films (10 C, 4 P) S. Songs about prison (72 P) T. Television episodes set in prisons (4 C, 34 P)
Prison has been a fertile setting for artists, musicians, and writers alike. Prisoners have produced hundreds of works that have encompassed a wide range of literature. [...] Books describing the prison experience, including the Autobiography of Malcolm X, inspired an audience far outside the prison walls. The importance of these works has been ...
Novels set in prison (1 C, 34 P) P. Plays set in prison (1 C, 3 P) T. Prison television series (9 C, 4 P) Television episodes set in prisons (4 C, 33 P)
Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing, pageantry, and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike; and the deadpan absurdities of institutional living. The novel also tells the story of Gordon Hauser, an academic teaching inmates at the prison.
Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree is a historical novel by British Pakistani writer Tariq Ali, first published in 1992.The first of Ali's Islam quintet, a series of historical novels about the confrontations between Islamic and Christian cultures, this novel is set shortly after the reconquista of Kingdom of Granada in Muslim Iberia by the army of Ferdinand and Isabella in the late fifteenth ...
Second Person Singular (Hebrew: גוף שני יחיד, romanized: gof shani yehid) is a 2010 novel by the Palestinian writer Sayed Kashua.Kashua explores the identity of Arabs who are assimilated in Israeli culture; Arabs that speak Hebrew and had their education at Israeli institutes.