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The PEN Ten with Brandon Caro
"In order for the world to function, we have to accept a certain level of falseness. It’s the responsibility of the writer to expose that falseness." More
Free Expression Digest: Tues., November 10
Egyptian rights journalist freed, Report faults U.S. treatment of whistleblowers, and China freezes out commercial news sources. More
New PEN Report Reveals High Risks for National Security Whistleblowers
Weak protections for intelligence workers impede checks on government malfeasanceNEW YORK—A new report released today by PEN American Center documents a chaotic patchwork of protections for national security whistleblowers… More
Free Expression Digest: Mon., November 9
Myanmar elections underway, Egyptian journalist detained, and Hong Kong book-sellers reported missing. More
Free Writing
The recent winner of Britain's oldest literary award doesn't think his debut novel would have found success if it had first been published in his native Bangladesh. More
Free Expression Digest: Fri., November 6
Zimbabwe photo journalist assaulted, Hong Kong court extends press gag, and a Macedonian media owner is brutally beaten. More
The Arab of the Future
The French bestseller details the author's childhood in rural France, Libya, and Syria, in the shadows of three dictators—Muammar Gaddafi, Hafez al-Assad, and his own father. More
2016 PEN Translation Prize
Winner Katrina Dodson for her translation of Clarice Lispector's The Complete Stories (New Directions) Read an excerpt » The $3,000 PEN Translation Prize invites submissions of book-length translations from any language into… More
2016 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
WinnerSawako Nakayasu for The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa (Canarium Books) Read an excerpt »The $3,000 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation is conferred every year in New York. The… More
2016 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship
WinnerAsh Parsons for "A Chemical Distance" (Available for publication)The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship of $5,000 is offered annually to an author of children's or young-adult fiction. It has… More
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