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PEN Appeal: Alan Shadrake
June 7, 2011 Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong Orchard Road Istana Singapore 238823 Fax: +63328983 / +68356621 Your Excellency, On behalf of the 3,500 members of PEN American Center, an organization of writers dedicated to protecting… More
PEN Appeal: Hada, Xinna, and Uiles
June 6, 2011 His Excellency Hu Jintao President of the People’s Republic of China State Council Beijing 100032 P.R. China Her Excellency Ms. Wu Aiying Minister of Justice 10 Chaoyangmen Nandajie Chaoyang-qu Beijing-shi 100020 P.R. China Your Excellencies, On behalf of… More
PEN Appeal: Syed Saleem Shahzad
June 6, 2011 President Asif Ali Zardari Office of the President Constitution Avenue Islamabad Pakistan Fax: +92 51 920 3938 / 920 1968 Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Pakistan Secretariat Constitution Avenue Islamabad Pakistan Your Excellencies, On behalf of the 3,500 members… More
PEN Appeal: Wilfred Iván Ojeda Peralta
June 2, 2011 Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías Presidente Ministerio del Poder Popular del Despacho de la Presidencia Final Avenida Urdaneta, Esq. de Bolero Palacio de Miraflores Caracas, Distrito Capital, Venezuela Fax: + 58 (212) 806… More
PEN Appeal: Bondarenko, Khalip, Neklyaev, Fiaduta, Severinets
June 2, 2011 Alyaksandr G. Lukashenka President of the Republic of Belarus 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
Dostoevsky in the Ruins
I was watching a while ago a TV news program in which there was a view of Tehran after the air raid by Iraq, and the camera was panning,… More
On Writing
A young student once wrote to the French novelist André Gide to ask him whether he should try to become a writer. “Only if you have to,” answered Gide,… More
Photocopies of Photocopies: On Bao Ninh
Bao Ninh, now living in Hanoi, became a novelist in the second half of his life. Until the age of forty, he served in the North Vietnamese Army, fighting… More
Luminescences of Words
When I was invited, a year and a half ago, to become president of the PEN American Center, I believe it was hoped I would prove enough of a… More
Pasha Malla and Moez Surani: Ethical Code for Writers According to Fifty People Who Are Not Writers
Ethical Code for Writers According to Fifty People Who Are Not WritersWe asked fifty people who do not consider themselves writers, young and old, from across Canada and beyond,… More