Empty Chair in T.O. To Mark Absence Of Burmese Poet

“Most featured writers at this year’s International Festival of Authors will spend Toronto’s 29th annual literary happening engaged in readings, panel discussions, book signings and media interviews… Not so Maung Thura, the Burmese poet, activist and comedian better known to his countrymen by the stage name Zargana. Zargana will pass the event in the same way that he has spent much of the past 20 years: imprisoned in a Rangoon cell by the military rulers of Burma.”