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Mia Alvar Wins $25,000 PEN/Bingham Prize for Debut Story Collection ‘In the Country’
Other winners at the 2016 PEN Literary Awards Ceremony include Ta-Nehisi Coates, Rick Barot, and Lauren Redniss. More
San Diego reporter Jean Guerrero takes $10,000 PEN/FUSION Prize for “Crux”
"Crux" is a cross-border memoir about a Guerrero's quest to understand her father, an immigrant from Mexico she grew up believing was schizophrenic. More
Free Expression Digest: Mon., April 11
Man executed in Somalia for journalist killings, Syrian journalist wounded in attack in Turkey, Official: Al Qaeda not behind secular blogger’s murder. More
Free Expression Digest: Fri., April 8
Gao Yu hospitalized after raid on home, Gag laws anger Chilean journalists, Bangladesh students protest government inaction over blogger's murder. More
Mortal Gods in the Greek Sea
We had no idea that a livid war was advancing on us like a sandstorm. We were committed to life, not death. We believed in the near, not the… More
Free Expression Daily Digest: Thurs., April 7
China ramps up Panama Papers censorship after leaders' relatives named, Student activist hacked, shot to death in Bangladesh, German prosecutors probe comic's poem about Turkey president. More
Four Questions for Sawako Nakayasu, Winner of the 2016 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
"The Sagawa book presented a special challenge, which was that the Modernist sensibility and language, especially in this particular Japanese context, was unlike anything I had ever seen, and… More
Four Questions for Katrina Dodson, Winner of the 2016 PEN Translation Prize
I’ve thought often about how translation requires extreme humility, to be able to recede into the shadows and let one’s style be subsumed by another’s. Translators work hard not… More
Bangladesh: Murder of Student Continues Assault on Free Expression
NEW YORK—PEN America condemns the brutal killing of a student in Bangladesh today in what appears to be another targeted attack by Islamist militants on those who express dissident… More
April Featured Cases: Mexico’s Free Expression Crisis
This month’s featured cases are three reporters whose stories are emblematic of the dire situation for free expression in Mexico. All three were killed for their outspoken criticism of… More
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