Aim for works that outlast the moment and speak across borders and generations.

Understand that survival under authoritarianism often requires intelligence, caution, and indirectness.

Keep faith with memory, because forgetting makes oppression easier.

Value ambiguity and layered meaning over simplistic political slogans.

Believe that small nations and marginalized cultures deserve a universal literary voice.

Accept exile, distance, or displacement as a way to see one’s homeland and its history more clearly.