Bosnian author Lana Bastasic disinvited from Austria literature festival over Gaza views

Bosnian author Lana Bastasic, who earlier this month cut ties with her German publisher over its "silence on Gaza", has been disinvited from a literature festival in Austria, the writer announced on Instagram on Tuesday.

Bastasic received an email from organisers saying that they have been closely following the discussion surrounding her decision to leave the S. Fischer publishing house.

The email states: “As much as we appreciate your books, under the given circumstances, we unfortunately must withdraw our invitation.

"Your stay at Literaturhaus NO and participation in the Literature Festival Salzburg would inevitably imply a positioning on our part that we do not wish for...”

Earlier this month, Bastasic said it was her moral and ethical duty to end her contract with the publisher over its silence on Israel’s war on Gaza, as well as the culture of "systematic censorship" in Germany.

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