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Coetzee, Grunberg, Liao Speak Out Against Surveillance
PEN American Center joins Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee, award-winning Dutch novelist Arnon Grunberg, and exiled Chinese writer Liao Yiwu in expressing profound disappointment today at the limited reach of… More
V. 2013: Submission of an Alternate Slate .
SUBMISSION OF AN ALTERNATE SLATEFor regulations governing submission of an alternate slate, the by-laws, Article IV, Section 5, state:“[In] accordance with a regular calendar and procedure adopted by the… More
IV. PROCEDURE FOR ELECTION
PROCEDURE FOR ELECTION1) The Nominating Committee will propose to the membership a slate of candidates for 2014 by email.* Members will have approximately six weeks in which to consider the… More
III. ROSTER OF CURRENT BOARD
Board of Trustees 2013-2014 (December 2013) Officers Peter Godwin, President John Troubh, Executive Vice-President Jeri Laber, Vice-President Victoria Redel, Vice-President John Oakes, Treasurer Elinor Lipman, Secretary Suzanne Nossel, Executive Director Trustees Cara Benson Susan Bernofsky Edward Burlingame Roxanne Donovan Jennifer Egan Nathan Englander Morgan Entrekin Jeanmarie Fenrich Wendy… More
II. BIOGRAPHIES OF CANDIDATES
Peter Godwin, PEN PresidentAuthor/Journalist2010 Guggenheim fellow Peter Godwin is an award winning foreign correspondent, author, documentary filmmaker, and screenwriter. Born and raised in Africa, Godwin studied law at Cambridge… More
I. SLATE OF CANDIDATES OFFERED BY NOMINATION COMMITTEE
I. SLATE OF CANDIDATES OFFERED BY NOMINATION COMMITTEE II. BIOGRAPHIES OF CANDIDATES III. ROSTER OF CURRENT BOARD IV. PROCEDURE FOR ELECTION V. SUBMISSION OF AN ALTERNATE SLATE More
Two Poets Released
PEN International and Freemuse welcome the release on bail of poets and lyricists Fatemeh Ekhtesari and Mehdi Moosavi on January 14, 2013. More
Syria: Thirteen Scenes From Hell
Not a day goes by without me hearing the same old refrain from my women friends: “Shouldn’t the opposition council represent the revolution? Where are the women? Don’t we… More
So Here We Are
They were handcuffed in pairs, across the wire, and only then allowed to stand up. The first was a Russian, a tall, lean lad in a blue vest and… More
From the Cycle of Poems “Cognitive capitalism”
I descended into the subway, I saw the homeless / with plastic bags on their heads, / with garbage gags in their mouths, like mummies / in mausolea of… More
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