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PEN Appeal: Nedim ?ener and Ahmet ??k
March 13, 2012 Minister of Justice Mr. Sadullah Ergin 06669 Kizilay Ankara Turkey Fax: 00 90 312 419 3370 Your Excellency, On behalf of the 3,500 members of PEN American Center, an international organization of writers… More
Turkish Translator and Publisher on Trial: Take Action!
Last year, I reported on the trial of Turkish publisher İrfan Sancı and translator Süha Sertabiboğlu for their January 2011 publication of William S. Burrough’s 1961 novel The Soft… More
Turkish Translator and Publisher on Trial: Take Action!
[caption id="" align="none" width="320" caption="Turkish editions of Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs and Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk"][/caption] Last year, I reported on the trial of Turkish publisher ?rfan Sanc?… More
PEN Appeal: Saidov, Mahmudov, Bekjanov, Abdurakhmanov, and Khamidov
March 12, 2012 President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam A. Karimov Rezidentsyia prezidenta Ul. Uzbekistaniskaya 43 Tashkent Uzbekistan Fax: +998 71 139 5325 Minister of Justice Nigmatilla Tulqinovich Yuldoshev 5, Saylgokh Str. Tashkent Uzbekistan Fax: +998 71 2335176 Head… More
What Poets Write
What do poets write and say when they don’t write pomes and poetics essays—or poems that ARE poetics essays? More
2012 PEN American Center Election Results
PEN American Center announced at the Annual Members Meeting the election of Peter Godwin as the president. Godwin succeeds Kwame Anthony Appiah, who served as president for the last… More
HotINK Festival
While many of the world’s greatest plays are only known to American audiences through translation (those by Sophocles, Ibsen, Chekhov, Brecht, and Ionesco, to name but a very few),… More
PEN Appeal: Ales Bialiatski
March 2, 2012 President of the Republic of Belarus Aleksandr G. Lukashenko Karl Marx Str. 38 220016 g. Minsk Belarus Fax: + 375 172 26 06 10 or +375 172 22 38 72 Your Excellency, On behalf… More
Yadasi Clips
Cold October spring, / light lengthened out in the evening. // But the wind! / Wind made the world frightening. More
PEN Remembers Envelope-Pushing Publisher and PEN Member Barney Rosset
PEN mourns the loss of maverick publisher, First Amendment crusader, and longtime member, Barney Rosset. He passed away in New York on February 21, at the age of 89.… More