Looking for colour

Two exiled writers here give highly individual views of censorship in their respective countries: Vasily Aksyonov, son of the writer Eugenia Ginzburg, got into trouble through his participation in Metropol, a collection of censored work by young Soviet authors, which was refused publication in 1980; he now resides in the USA. Jiri Grusa, one of the best-known dissident writers in Czechoslovakia, was briefly imprisoned in 1978 after his novel The Questionnaire was published in the West. He left his country two years ago and now lives in West Germany. Both texts were presented at the 1981 Toronto conference on ‘The Writer and Human Rights’ and will appear in a book to be published by Lester & Orpen Dennys in Canada.