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Joan Smith is a novelist, journalist, campaigner for human rights and a former chair of the Writers in Prison committee at International PEN. She writes for several national newspapers, including the Independent, and is a regular broadcaster. She is the author of What Will Survive, Moralities, the highly acclaimed Misogynies and five detective novels.