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Understanding Difference: On Translating Olga Tokarczuk
The urgency of the issues addressed in Tokarczuk's work is nowhere clearer than in the recent barrage of hate mail addressed to the author, absolutely unprecedented in her career,… More
The Books of Jacob
Jennifer Croft is the recipient of a 2015 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk, which was awarded the 2015 Nike Literature Award, Poland's… More
Free Expression Daily Digest: Thurs., October 22
Bahrain sentences photo-ripping activist, Bangladeshi blogger receives death threat, and a Honduran reporter is banned from travel. More
Six Poems by Lucas de Lima
tree we imagine in memory of the slave who preferred / 200 lashes instead of fulmination / live blood running down the trunk instead of latex in the thorax… More
Honduras Bars Journalist Julio Ernesto Alvarado from Leaving Country
The state’s actions today against Mr. Alvarado not only explicitly defy the IACHR’s orders, they actively hinder the processes of an international body to which it is a state… More
Honduras: journalist prevented from testifying at Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
The Honduran government has yet again displayed a fundamental lack of respect for freedom of expression and for the authority of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), PEN… More
Free Expression Daily Digest: Wed., October 21
Journalist held over case of Chinese spiritual guide, CISA sponsors hope to pass anti-hacking bill, and an Internet shutdown may have been ordered in Congo-Brazzaville. More
Iran: Two Poets Sentenced and What You Can Do
PEN protests the harsh sentences imposed on the poets and lyricists Fatemeh Ekhtesari and Mehdi Moosavi. Ekhtesari and Moosavi were sentenced to 11.5 and nine years in prison, respectively,… More
The PEN Ten with Adriana E. Ramírez
Adriana Ramírez is the winner of the inaugural PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize for her manuscript "Dead Boys," which takes an unflinching look at the bodies of those who have… More
Free Expression Daily Digest: Tues., October 20
Qatar urged to free jailed poet, Angolan rapper on hunger strike weakens, and the French media file a lawsuit on behalf of a reporter. More