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PEN Grant for the English Translation of Italian Literature Winners
2017 Douglas Heise for his translation of Ithaca Forever by Luigi Malerba More
PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers Winners
2017 “Galina” (Fifth Wednesday Journal), Angela Ajayi “The Handler” (Southwest Review), Amber Caron “Tell Me, Please” (The Common), Emily Chammah “The Asphodel Meadow” (The Summerset Review), Jim Cole “Solee” (The Southern Review), Crystal Hana Kim “The Manual… More
PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature Winners
2017 Adonis 2018 Edna O’Brien More
PEN/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History Winners
2017 Aleksandar Hemon for How Did You Get Here?: Tales of Displacement (work-in-progress) More
PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Winners
2017 Hisham Matar for The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between (Penguin Random House) 2018 Layli Long Soldier for WHEREAS (Graywolf Press) More
Oakland, Cal.
The horses go running through my mind. My student says / She wouldn’t believe police if they told her the sky is blue. More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
Trump defends Bill O'Reilly, Pepsi pulls ad accused of insensitivity towards protest movements, and Germany passes harsh punishments against social media hate speech. More
The Art Class is a Sanctuary City
In art class everyone is encouraged to be who they are and make art about what they care about. More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
LGBT job discrimination is prohibited by the 1964 Civil Rights Act, NYPD officers accessed Black Lives Matter activists' texts, and more. More
US: Release Singaporean Blogger Amos Yee
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials should immediately release persecuted Singaporean activist and blogger Amos Yee, who was granted asylum by a U.S. immigration judge on March 24,… More
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