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Maya Angelou: 1928-2014
One of the most influential books written in English, Angelou’s transformative autobiography unleashed the genre of the American memoir to new possibilities. With 39 public bans since 1983 for… More
Translating for the Stage
Once again hotINK at the Lark will partner with the PEN American Center on a special translation event: Translating the Spoken Word: a Proper Challenge. The panel event will… More
Translation at Book Expo America 2014
This year, literary translation is the master theme of BEA (Book Expo America). Usually it’s the literature of one particular country that provides the focus for what, in BEA… More
2014 PEN/Bellwether Prize Finalists
PEN American Center is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2014 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. The award, which was established in 2000 by Barbara Kingsolver and is… More
Knife’s Edge: Free Expression in Myanmar
Four years after the release of Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest, what has changed in Myanmar? More
Why One Story and Not Another?
The word “idea” catapults us instantly into philosophy. What does it mean to have an idea? What is an idea? For Plato ideal forms were more real than our… More
House Passes Weakened Version of USA FREEDOM Act
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a significantly weakened version of the USA FREEDOM Act, an NSA surveillance reform proposal. More
Recommended Reading: Art of the Essay
PEN judges Geoff Dyer, Stanley Fish, Ariel Levy, and Cheryl Strayed chose these eight titles for the 2014 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay long list. Smart,… More
PEN Nicaragua Protests the Mistreatment of Journalists
PEN Nicaragua protests the use of force by several officers of the state police in an incident in which two young Nicaraguan journalists were abused as they covered a… More
Anna Politkovskaya Murder Convictions a Small Step Towards Justice
The conviction of five men for the murder of the renowned Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya is a welcome development, but PEN remains deeply concerned that those who ordered the… More
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