… and co author of The Voice of Hope (with Aung San Suu Kyi). Tonight, The Book Show with Paige Turner – Edge Radio 99.3fm (Hobart) or edgeradio.org.au 6pm Australian Eastern Standard Time.
Alan Clements was the first American monk in Burma in the late seventies, expelled from the country in the 80s he continued to visit and began to document the human rights travesty that is occuring in Burma.
In 1992 he approached Aun San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who has been under house arrest on and off for nearly two decades about working together to make a book.
Aun San Suu Kyi, with her voice of clarity and hope – is currently enduring a farcical trial, following the unsoliticed visit of an American citizen – who swam across the lake that her house backs on to. She is being charged with breaching the conditions of her house arrest.
It is most likely she will be imprisioned – she is currently being held at the Insein prison in Rangoon. Insein is pronounced insane.
The Voice of Hope – the conversations that Clements had with Suu Kyi – is an inspirational book – Suu Kyi and incredible person and this is a great and Clements is informed and articulate.
This interview has international relevance and is incredibly topical.
Rachel Edwards
The Book Show with Paige Turner (Edge 99.3 FM) 6pm every Tuesday. Coming up – interviews with Chris Andrews, translator of Roberto Bolano, Alan Clements, Burma expert and coauthor (with Aun San Suu Kyi) of The Voice of Hope and the replay of an interview with James Boyce, author of Van Diemens Land and recent winner the Tasmanian Book Prize.
www.edgeradio.org.au
