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The PEN Ten with Lawrence Venuti
The translator ... bears an enormous responsibility, not just in relation to the source text, but in representing a foreign culture. Translations can create or strengthen stereotypes of foreign… More
Announcing Winner of 2014 PEN/Bellwether Prize
When I wasn’t reading it, I was thinking about it. [Childress] can write, these characters are real, the story is crackerjack. Tying together America's financial system and military operations… More
PEN Raises the Alarm: Reports of Secret Trial and Conviction in Tohti Case
If corroborated, this action will mar an already declining human rights record in China, where free expression is ostensibly protected under Article 35 of the Chinese Constitution. More
Recommended Reading: Poetry in Translation
From Japanese, Greek, Russian, German, and more, these translators have turned a foreign language into an understandable one for lovers of poetry to get in touch with faraway cultures.… More
Three Wishes
Three WishesI have a dream for my family.My two sisters and my brother did not go to school, and I wish they could have had an education. Now I… More
PEN Condemns Anti-Gay Censorship at Moscow International Open Book Festival
Russia’s growing portfolio of discriminatory censorship laws threatens to erode Russia’s historically rich literary culture. More
Privacy Policy: The Anthology of Surveillance Poetics
Little has changed since the turbulent summer of 2013, and the issue of surveillance remains an unsolved and chilling mystery. These four poems wrestle with the ethics of observation,… More
Eight Poems by Sara Deniz Akant
a horse / cries through the fog. / the little lion balconies / did stoop before his loss. More
Mexico: Third Journalist Murdered This Year
PEN International joins PEN Mexico in protesting the murder of journalist Jorge Torres Palacios, found dead on June 2, 2014. PEN calls on the authorities to carry out a… More
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