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Because Hook Doesn’t Exist
He tried to run over the wife with his truck and then threatened her with a claw hammer. She told the police. Ask yourself why this sign didn’t signify… More
PEN America Translation Committee at BEA 2015
Join PEN's Translation Committee at BEA 2015 for three brief, informative panels focused on topics of perennial interest to those concerned with the art and profession of literary translation.… More
Dis-Enchanted, Dis-Entangled Tales: Francophone African Literature Today—The Examples of Boubacar Boris Diop and Véronique Tadjo
Engaged with renewing the politics of form, Boubacar Boris Diop and Véronique Tadjo become representative of a new generation of African writers, Francophones and Anglophones, rethinking the artistic practice… More
PEN Joins Renewed Cry for Saudi Activist’s Release
On the one year anniversary of his unjust imprisonment, PEN American Center joins the international call for the immediate release of Saudi writer and activist Raif Badawi and an… More
PEN outraged by yet another deadly attack on a blogger in Bangladesh
PEN American Center is appalled by the murder of blogger Ananta Bijoy Das on the morning of May 12, 2015—the third in a disturbing string of fatal attacks targeting… More
Bangladesh: Murder of third secular blogger highlights need for better protection
The murder today of Bangladeshi writer, editor and blogger Ananta Bijoy Das is deeply shocking, PEN International said today. More
BANGLADESH: Mounting concern for the safety of writers
Bengali writer, editor and blogger Ananta Bijoy Das was killed on 12 May 2015 by religious extremists in the city of Sylhet. More
No Diplomacy
A comic strip by New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly about the plight of journalist Khadija Ismayilova, recipient of the 2015 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award. More
PEN Urges Congress to Strengthen 2015 USA Freedom Act
The House of Representatives' passage of the USA Freedom Act is a first step towards broad reform of U.S. mass surveillance programs, but must be further strengthened, PEN American… More
PEN World Voices Festival: Richard Flanagan on Confronting “the Darkness” of Communal Trauma
Richard Flanagan on how his father's traumatic internment at a Japanese POW camp during World War II informed the writing of his Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road… More
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