Louisa Carroll reports that  Kāpiti libraries are to be Satire Free. 

She points out that as NZ is Nuclear Free so Kāpiti must become Satire Free.

Louisa, a.great great grand niece of Lewis Carroll, opines: ‘Councillor Prvanov, ably supported by Councillors Holborrow,  Buswell, Elliott and Handford achieved this amazing feat when they ensured the publisher of satire, the editor of Waikanae Watch, was condemned after being found guilty of the crime of satire publication.

‘This is the literary equivalent of David Lange’s nuclear Free NZ.

As most of these brave councillors are Labour supporters I would be delighted to see them all become Dames in the New Year’s Honours List.

I will certainly be rooting for them. WE all know that satire is a device used by males to undermine feminist legitimacy. 

So inspired am I, by the example set that I am adding my shoulder to the campaign to ensure  Kāpiti becomes totally satire free. 

It is utterly deplorable that our libraries continue to have on their shelves works by satirists.

My extensive researches have shown that the following authors and their books need to be removed.

The list also includes film makers so their videos will need expunging as well. The worst offenders and the first for burning are highlighted in blue.

SATIRISTS FOR REMOVAL

Greek and Roman satirists

• Aesop (c. 620–560 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Aesop’s Fables
• Diogenes (c. 412–323 BCE, Ancient Greece)
• Aristophanes (c. 448–380 BCE, Ancient Greece) – The Frogs, The Birds, and The Clouds
• Gaius Lucilius (c. 180–103 BCE, Roman Republic)
• Horace (65–8 BCE, Roman Republic) – Satires
• Ovid (43 BCE – 17 CE, Roman Republic/Roman Empire) – The Art of Love
• Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Hispania/Rome) – Apocolocyntosis
• Persius (34–62 CE, Roman Empire)
• Petronius (c. 27–66 CE, Roman Empire) – Satyricon
• Juvenal (1st to early 2nd centuries CE, Roman Empire) – Satires
• Lucian (c. 120–180 CE, Roman Empire)
• Apuleius (c. 123–180 CE, Roman Empire) – The Golden Ass
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Medieval, early modern and 18th-century satirists

• Godfrey of Winchester (died 1107, England)
• Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375, Italy) – The Decameron
• James Bramston (1694–1743, England) – satirical poet
• Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400, England) – The Canterbury Tales)
• Erasmus (1466–1536, Burgundian Netherlands/Switzerland) – The Praise of Folly
• François Rabelais (c. 1493–1553, France) – Gargantua and Pantagruel
• Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616, Spain) – Don Quixote
• William Shakespeare (1564–1616, England) – 
• Francisco de Quevedo (1580–1645, Spain)
• Samuel Butler (1612–1680, England) – Hudibras
• Molière (1622–1673, France) – Le Malade imaginaire
• Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623–1673, England)
• John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647–1680, England)
• Jonathan Swift (1667–1745, Ireland/England) – Gulliver’s Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Tale of a Tub
• John Gay (1685–1732, England) – The Beggar’s Opera
• Alexander Pope (1688–1744, England)
• Voltaire (1694–1778, France) – Candide
• James Bramston (1694–1744, England)
• William Hogarth (1697–1764, England) – Beer Street and Gin Lane
• Henry Fielding (1707–1754, England)
• Laurence Sterne (1713–1768, Ireland/England) – The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
• James Beresford (1764–1840, England) – The Miseries of Human Life
• Ivan Krylov (1769–1844, Russia)
• Jane Austen (1775–1817, England) – Love and Freindship
• Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866, England) – Nightmare Abbey, Crochet Castle
• Eaton Stannard Barrett (1786–1820, Ireland) – The Heroine
• Charles Etienne Boniface (1787–1853, France/South Africa) – 

Satirists (born 1800–1900) 

• Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852, Russia) – The Government Inspector, Dead Souls
• Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849, US) – The Man That Was Used Up, A Predicament, Never Bet the Devil Your Head
• William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863, England) – Vanity Fair
• Charles Dickens (1812–1870, England) – Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities
• James Russell Lowell (1819–1891, US) – A Fable for Critics
• George Derby, also known as John P. Squibob and John Phoenix (1823–1861, US)
• Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826–1889, Russia)
• Lewis Carroll (1832–1898, England) – Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass
• Samuel Butler (1835–1902, England) – Erewhon
• Mark Twain (1835–1910, US) – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
• W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911, England)
• Thomas Nast (1840–1902, US)
• Ambrose Bierce (1842 – c. 1914, US) – The Devil’s Dictionary
• Anatole France (1844–1924, France)
• José Maria de Eça de Queirós (1845–1900, Portugal) (1854–1900, Ireland/England) –Oscar Wilde  The Importance of Being Earnest
• George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950, England)
• Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927, England) – Three Men in a Boat, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
• Anton Chekhov (1860–1904, Russia) 
• O. Henry (1862–1910, US)
• Alfred Jarry (1873–1907, France) – Ubu Roi
• Will Rogers (1879–1935, US)
• James Branch Cabell (1879–1958, US)
• H. L. Mencken (1880–1956, US) – cultural critic and author
• P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975, England/US)
• Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957, England)
• Jaroslav Hašek (1883–1923, Austria-Hungary/Czechoslovakia) – The Good Soldier Švejk
• Oscar Cesare (1885–1948, Sweden/US)
• Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977, England) – Modern Times, The Great Dictator, Monsieur Verdoux
• Kurt Tucholsky (1890–1935, Germany)
• Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940, Russia/Soviet Union) – Heart of a Dog, The Master and Margarita
• Dorothy Parker (1893–1967, US) satirical writer of humorous short stories, poetry and book reviews
• Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930, Russia/Soviet Union)
• Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) – Point Counter Point, Brave New World
• James Thurber (1894-1961, US) – “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”
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• Ilf and Petrov: Ilya Ilf (1897–1937, Soviet Union) and Yevgeni Petrov (1903–1942, Soviet Union) – The Twelve Chairs, The Little Golden Calf

Modern satirists (born 1900–1930) 

• Stella Gibbons (1902–1989, England) –Cold Comfort Farm
• Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966, England) – Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Scoop
• George Orwell (1903–1950, England) – Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990, England)
• Dr. Seuss (1904–1991, US) – The Lorax (1971), The Butter Battle Book (1984)
• Kurt Kusenberg (1904–1983, Germany)
• Daniil Kharms (1905–1942, Russia/USSR)
• H. F. Ellis (1907–2000, England) – The Papers of A. J. Wentworth, B.A., 1949
• Jean Effel (1908–1982, France) – 
• Al Capp (1909–1979, US)
• Anthony Burgess (1917–1993, England) – A Clockwork Orange
• Warrington Colescott (1921–2018, US)
• Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007, US) – Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions, Cat’s Cradle
• Lenny Bruce (1925–1966, US) – 
• Joseph Heller (1923–1999, US) – Catch-22
• Art Buchwald (1924–2007) –
• Terry Southern (1924–1995, US) – The Magic Christian, Dr. Strangelove
• Günter Grass (1927–2015, Germany) – The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse
• Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999, US) – Dr. Strangelove
• Harvey Kurtzman (1924–1993, US)
• Tom Lehrer (born 1928, US) – That Was the Year That Was
• Jules Feiffer (1929, US) –screenplay for Little Murders
• Ray Bradbury (US)
• William S. Burroughs (US) – Naked Lunch
• Flannery O’Connor (US)
• C. Northcote Parkinson (England)
• Anna Russell (England/Canada)
• Gore Vidal (US) – Myra Breckinridge
• Mel Brooks (US) – The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein
• Erma Bombeck (1927, US)
• Allan Sherman (1924–1973, US) –
• Stan Freberg (1926, US) – 
• Brian O’Nolan (1911–1966, Ireland) – At Swim-Two-Birds (as Flann O’Brien)
• Jerry Lewis (1926-2017) (US) – 

Contemporary satirists (born 1930–1960) 

• Mordecai Richler (1931–2001, Canada)
• Tom Wolfe (born 1931, US) – The Bonfire of the Vanities
• Vladimir Voinovich (born 1932, Soviet Union/Russia) – The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Moscow 2042
• Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007, US) – The Illuminatus! Trilogy
• Barry Humphries (born 1934, Australia) – My Gorgeous Life, The Life and Death of Sandy Stone, stage shows
• Jonathan Miller (1934–2019, England)
• Alan Bennett (born 1934, England)
• Dudley Moore (1935–2002, England)
• David Lodge (born 1935, US) – author of “Campus Trilogy”
• Woody Allen (born 1935, US)
• Thomas Pynchon (born 1937, US) – V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity’s Rainbow
• Richard Ingrams (born 1937, England)
• John Kennedy O’Toole (born 1937, US)
• Peter Cook (1937–1995, England) – of the Satire boom, Beyond the Fringe
• Eleanor Bron (born 1938, England)
• David Frost (1939–2013, England)
• Grigori Gorin (1940–2000, Soviet Union/Russia)
• Frank Zappa (1940–1993, US) – We’re Only in It for the Money, Cruising with Ruben and the Jets
• Sergei Dovlatov (1941–1990, Soviet Union/Russia)
• Neil Innes (1944–2019, England) – former Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band founder and member of The Rutles. Writer of satirical songs and books
• Gennady Khazanov (born 1945, Soviet Union/Russia) – stand-up comedian
• Luba Goy (born 1945, Canada)
• Lewis Grizzard (born 1946, US)
• Sue Townsend (1946–2014, England) – Adrian Mole
• Don Ferguson (born 1946, Canada)
• Jonathan Meades (born 1947, England) 
• Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) – 
• Lewis Black (born 1948, US) –
• Terry Pratchett (1948–2015, England) – The Discworld book series
• Garry Trudeau (born 1948, US)
• Christopher Guest (born 1948, US) – This Is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, 
• Gary Larson (born 1950, US) – cartoonist
• Fran Lebowitz (born 1950, US) – The Fran Lebowitz Reader, Public Speaking (film) – 
• Bailey White(born 1950, US)
• Steve Bell (born 1951, England)
• Bill Bryson (born 1951, US)
• Al Franken (born 1951, US)
• Douglas Adams (1952–2001, England) – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
• Mary Walsh (born 1952, Canada)
• Phil Hendrie (born 1952, US) – radio host of The Phil Hendrie Show
• Robert Zubrin (born 1952, US)
• Christopher Buckley (born 1952) – Thank You for Smoking, The White House Mess
• Carl Hiaasen (born 1953) – Tourist Season, Double Whammy, Basket Case, Skinny Dip
• Stoney Burke (born 1953, US)
• Louis de Bernières (born 1954, UK) – Latin America Trilogy: The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts, Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord, The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman
• Matt Groening (born 1954, US) – The Simpsons, Futurama
• George C. Wolfe (born 1954, US) – The Colored Museum
• Howard Stern (born 1954, US)
• Jaspal Bhatti (1955–2012, India)
• Cathy Jones (born 1955, Canada)
• Bill Maher (born 1956, US) – Real Time with Bill Maher
• Percival Everett (born 1956, US)
• David Sedaris (born 1956, US) – Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day
• Craig Brown (born 1957, UK)
• Scott Adams (born 1957, US) – Dilbert
• Stephen Fry (born 1957, England)
• Christopher Moore (born 1957, US)
• Victor Shenderovich (born 1958, Russia)
• Bill Watterson (born 1958, US) – cartoonist, Calvin and Hobbes
• Jello Biafra (born 1958, US)
• George Saunders (born 1958, US) – 
• Wayne Federman (born 1959, US)
• Hugh Laurie (born 1959, England)
• Jeffrey Morgan  

Contemporary satirists  

• Jacob M. Appel (US, born 1973) – playwright (Causa Mortis, Arborophilia)
• Michael “Atters” Attree (born 1965, UK)
• Max Barry (born 1973, Australia) – author
• Paul Beatty (born 1962, US) – (The White Boy Shuffle, The Sellout)
• Nigel Blackwell (living, UK) – Half Man Half Biscuit
• Jan Böhmermann (born 1981, Germany)
• Charlie Brooker (born 1971, UK) – Nathan Barley
• Bo Burnham (born 1990, US) – 
• Sacha Baron Cohen (born 1971) – Borat, Da Ali G Show
• Stephen Colbert (born 1964, US) – 
• Sarah Cooper (born 1977, US) – 
• Douglas Coupland (born 1961, Canada) – Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
• Johnny Corn (born 1969, US) – 

Please feel free to join me, Louisa Carroll ,in  this significant fight.  You will see that, a little tongue in check, I said books for burning.

Perhaps Guy Burns could officiate?

I have had three fighters in the cause tell me this is a great idea and instead of having Guy  Fawkes on the 5^th November KCDC should have a bonfire to the satirists- perhaps following the script of Bonfire to the vanities- one of the books ear marked for removal. Let us know. There is the possibility it will be  great fun event and we would have  last laugh at the satirists.

And we are not alone. Our wonderful Mayor Guru was at the barricade of the Waikanae Community Board meeting with his inspiring lawyer Tim Power. Showing their commitment and solidarity with this cause celebre.

Love you all ,

Louisa Carroll

Suffragette for a satire free world