Open door: Flemming Rose in conversation with Editor Anders Heger
Has uncompromising faith in free speech had to yield to self-censorship, fear and caution?
Fritt Ord and Cappelen Damm invite the public to a conversation with Flemming Rose on Tuesday, 19 April at 7.00 p.m. at Cappelen Damm in Akersgata 47/49, Oslo.
Flemming Rose is the cultural affairs editor who took the initiative to publish the Muhammed caricatures in Jyllandsposten, triggering the most comprehensive discussion of freedom of expression in Europe in recent times. Ten years later, Rose takes the temperature of today’s Europe in his new book “A Hymn to Freedom”. The preface of the book can be read on Forlagsliv. The Fritt Ord Foundation has provided NOK 60 000 in support for the translation of “A Hymn to Freedom”.
In 2015, Flemming Rose was awarded the Freedom of Expression Foundation Tribute for his firm defence of freedom of expression in the decade of the caricature controversy. He shared the tribute with the Norwegian editor Vebjørn Selbekk.
Free and open to all.
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Registration: invitasjoner@cappelendamm.no
