Sep 10
2009

From Mythmakers and Lawbreakers:

Pino Cacucci (1955–) is an Italian anarchist translator and novelist. He’s written essays as well, at the very least for the Red and Black, an anarchist journal in Australia. That I’m aware of, only two of his novels are available in English: Tina Modotti: A Life, based on the biography of an Italian photographer and actress who becomes a revolutionary; and Without a Glimmer of Remorse, a historical novel about the legendary Bonnot Gang of illegalists, inventors of the get-away car.

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Sep 10
2009

From Mythmakers and Lawbreakers:

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) was one of the most famous Spanish-language authors in the world and was often a contender for the Nobel prize for literature, but never received it. Some speculate that this was because of his anarcho-pacifist views. An Argentinean and a world citizen, he is known primarily for his short stories, of which he wrote an innumerable quantity.

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Sep 10
2009

From Mythmakers and Lawbreakers:

Hakim Bey (1945–) has written a lot of anarchist theory, most famously TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone and he has also written a novel, The Chronicles of Qamar: Crowstone. This novel, which I could not track down a copy of, is said to be a story of man-boy love. Hakim Bey is infamous for reportedly encouraging pedophilia.

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Sep 10
2009

From Mythmakers and Lawbreakers:

Edward Abbey (1927–1989), the author of the controversial novel The Monkey Wrench Gang (which was considered too radical by the mainstream and too sexist by many anarchists), is also the “spiritual father” that inspired Earth First!. He was at least philosophically involved in anarchism in college, editing an anarchist paper and eventually writing his thesis on the topic “Anarchism and the Morality of Violence,” in which he declared that a peaceful anarchist society could not be created by the use of violence.

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