The International Parliament of Writers (IPW) was created after an appeal launched in July 1993 by 300 writers from all over the world, in reaction to the increase of writers’ assassinations in Algeria. The signatories of this appeal affirmed the need for a new international structure capable of organizing a concrete solidarity with persecuted writers, in the form of a Cities of Asylum Network. The publication of their annual review, Autodafe, was a collaboration between various publishing houses around the world: Seven Stories Press in the U.S., Anagrama in Spain, Agra in Athens, Denoel in France, and Feltrinelli in Italy.