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By Sue Carter Flinn
February 7, 2012
11:11 AM

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Marina Nemat: “Bullying hurts and it’s a crime”

Although CBC Canada Reads celebrity defender Stacey McKenzie shed a few tears, day two of the book contest was a more civilized affair than yesterday’s bloody match. But the fisticuffs are ongoing outside of the CBC studio.

Yesterday on Facebook, Prisoner of Tehran author Marina Nemat asked panelist Anne-France Goldwater to apologize for calling her book untruthful. Goldwater, who was no less animated today (even as the book she was defending, John Vaillant’s The Tiger, was put down), didn’t respond to Nemat’s demand.

This afternoon, Nemat posted a new profile photo on Facebook. She doesn’t mention Goldwater or Canada Reads, but the photo speaks for itself:


The photo was taken from a shoot Nemat did for Calgary photographer Catherine Oshanek’s anti-bullying website. Although it was taken before Goldwater’s accusation, Nemat has made her point.

  • Zoranbo

    I think Nemat is a sore loser. From her comments published in National Post, it’s clear that she doesn’t take defeat gracefully.

  • B.C. Evans

    She’s not a sore loser, she was locked in jail for no crime at the age of 15, tortured, raped, wrote a memoir & was then told it didn’t happen by an overstuffed couch with a law degree! You expect her to not react? 

  • Guest

     Canada Reads is a trashy hypefest of artificially generated controversy. It should offend everyone that this is the way the CBC chooses to discuss literature.

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