Hi everyone
Does anyone know of any novelists, poets, dramatist, or even just artists of any medium (painters, musicians, film-makers or even sculptors) who suffered for their art by being beaten up, interrogated, imprisoned, executed, or even "disappearing" because of their work?
I'm not so much interested in journalists who have had this happen to them. Journalists are much more empirical and fact based.
I know Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses caused his Japanese translator to get killed, and there is the staff of Charlie Hedbo, but can anyone else think of any artists - any where in the world - who have suffered because of the reaction to their work? I know Dostoyevsky was imprisoned, but I don't think it was for his novels.
I assume in different regimes in the 20th century put different artists to death, or of course just got beaten up, interrogated, imprisoned, or being made to "disappear" because the government didn't like their work, but I'm just curious if anyone knew of any?