The Bound Books Project
This edition of 1984 is commissioned by the Dawit Isaak Library to protest the blatant censorship of books around the world. Bound on both sides, this book will be the first of many to be published ‘bound’ to spark conversations about the dangers of censorship. With the act of 'double-binding' important pieces of literature, we symbolize the feeling of one's expression being silenced when a book is banned.
“All forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.”
– Wole Soyinka
A database for all forbidden literature
The Dawit Isaak Database of Censorship (DIDOC) maps and catalogues banner and censored literature from all over the world. It serves as a resource for information on the free word and censorship. You can access the database via its website.
About the Dawit Isaak Library
The Dawit Isaak Library is the world’s first library entirely dedicated to freedom of speech. On its shelves and in its digital database are books and information about works that have been banned, burned, or censored, as well as works by writers who have been silenced, threatened, imprisoned, or forced into exile for their words.