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Announcing 2015 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Winners
From a vast field of applicants, the Fund’s Advisory Board has selected sixteen projects which will each receive a grant of $3,100 to assist in their completion. More
Dispatches from Civitella Ranieri: On the “Musical Disaster” of Language
"One of the most wonderful experiences of being here in this castle, besides watching Lars Lauman’s cigarette smoke snake its silvery way from the tower and ramparts up among… More
The Deteriorating State of Free Expression in Thailand
May 22 marks one year since the military coup led by now-Prime Minister General Prayuth Chan-ocha, who seized power from Prime Minster Yingluck Shinawatra. Since the coup, rights to… More
International writers call for justice for bloggers murdered in Bangladesh
More than 150 writers from around the world, including Margaret Atwood, Amitav Ghosh, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Yann Martel, Salman Rushdie and Colm Tóibín have condemned the murders of Ananta… More
Cartooning for Free Expression: Free Khadija
We've teamed up with Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor at The New Yorker, and cartoonist Liza Donnelly to ask the world’s foremost satirical cartoonists to create cartoons about Khadija Ismayilova… More
2015 Literary Award Winners
PEN/Robert W. Bingham PrizeThe Dog (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) by Jack Livings PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay Theater of Cruelty: Art, Film, and the Shadows of War (New… More
2015 PEN Literary Gala Remarks
May 5, 2015American Museum of Natural History, New York CityWelcome RemarksAndrew Solomon, PEN PresidentWelcome from 2015 Publisher HonoreeMarkus Dohle, CEO, Penguin Random HousePresentation of the 2015 PEN/Allen Foundation Literary… More
“Writing Is Spirit”: A Synchronous Meeting with Calligrapher Ömer Basdag
CYAB Committee member Meghan Nuttall Sayres on the Turkish calligrapher Ömer Basdag and the ancient art of handwriting. More
New PEN Report Reveals Politically Motivated Censorship in Chinese Translations
Many Western authors, agents, and publishers have not paid close attention to what happens to their books when published in China, to the point where many are not even… More
The Rain Will Not Prepare You
Information doesn’t need to be true / to grow itself in your body like a peach / & be given as food to whoever, much later / What the… More
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