2019 PEN/Hemingway Award winner There There by Tommy Orange

Breakout Novelist Tommy Orange Wins $25,000 PEN/Hemingway Award for There There

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2019 Freedom To Write Honorees Eman Al-Nafjan and Loujain Al-Hathloul

PEN America will honor imprisoned activist-writers with the Freedom to Write Award at the 2019 Literary Gala on 5/21

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Announcing the 2019 PEN World Voices Festival: Open Secrets | Join us from May 6-12, 2019

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Children around the world are wishing Kyaw Soe Oo a happy 28th birthday. He’s spending it separated from his family, unjustly imprisoned in Myanmar for 463 days and counting, just for doing his job as a journalist. Time for justice and to finally #FreeWaLoneKyawSoeOo!

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New legislation in Florida would make it a felony for public schools to buy any books that contain content deemed pornographic under state obscenity statutes, or otherwise determined “not acceptable.” https://t.co/4z27igGtfr

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Congratulations to @thommyorange, winner of the 2019 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel https://t.co/POx5yT3iRi

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