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PEN America Translation Committee at BEA 2015
Join PEN's Translation Committee at BEA 2015 for three brief, informative panels focused on topics of perennial interest to those concerned with the art and profession of literary translation.… More
Bangladesh: Murder of third secular blogger highlights need for better protection
The murder today of Bangladeshi writer, editor and blogger Ananta Bijoy Das is deeply shocking, PEN International said today. More
PEN Urges Congress to Strengthen 2015 USA Freedom Act
The House of Representatives' passage of the USA Freedom Act is a first step towards broad reform of U.S. mass surveillance programs, but must be further strengthened, PEN American… More
PEN World Voices Festival: Richard Flanagan on Confronting “the Darkness” of Communal Trauma
Richard Flanagan on how his father's traumatic internment at a Japanese POW camp during World War II informed the writing of his Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road… More
2015 PEN Literary Gala: Glenn Close and Tom Stoppard
Sir Tom Stoppard delivered the following remarks after being presented with the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award at the 2015 PEN Literary Gala. Tom Stoppard was introduced by Glenn… More
Lincoln Song
A collaboration with illustrator and author Maira Kalman, this musical piece is inspired by Abraham Lincoln’s pocket watch, which was made to tick again in 2014. More
2015 PEN Literary Award Winners
BOOK AWARDS PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction ($25,000): To an author whose debut work—a first novel or collection of short stories published in 2014—represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great… More
Bottoms of the Oceans
Fifteen years later her life was hijacked. All the bottoms of the oceans were marked by her thoughts and the possibility that her little girl was lying there among… More
The Tubman Sisterhood
Not only was Donya about to become Egypt’s first woman president, she was also openly bisexual and a poet, the perfect antidote to decades of hypermasculine Egyptian politics. More