Writers including Nobel Prize laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners and Sally Rooney have joined history’s largest cultural boycott against Israel’s publishing industry, APA reports citing Euronews.
Over 1,000 authors have launched a mass boycott of Israeli publishers as a declaration against the state’s dispossession of the Palestinian people.
The letter, published 28 October, details how the publishing industry faces “the most profound moral, political and cultural crisis of the 21st century.”
Organised by the Palestine festival of literature alongside other campaign groups such as Books Against Genocide and Fossil Free Books, the letter continues to detail the situation in Gaza.
The number of signatories of the letter has grown far beyond 1,000 with the initiating signatories including some of the biggest names in contemporary literature.
Nobel Prize winning writers Abdulrazak Gurnah and Annie Ernaux are also present as initiating signatories, while Pulitzer Prize winners on the list include Viet Thanh Nguyen and Junot Díaz.
This year’s Booker Prize nominees Percival Everett and Rachel Kushner also feature in the list, alongside Jewish-heritage authors Judith Butler, Naomi Klein, and Miriam Margolyes.
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