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Snail’s House
The formative experience of reading cannot be ignored. We are not just the product of a family or of a society, of a religion or of an ethnicity, of… More
From the Arhcives: A Time for Everything, Karl Ove Knausgaard
She realized that living was just what it was not. That a will of its own was just what it did not have. It was dead and blind and… More
I Shall Persevere! A Letter from Kality Prison
After an Ethiopian court upheld Eskinder Nega's 18-year prison sentence, the journalist smuggled a letter out of prison. More
The Invisible Symposium
It is useful to remember that when you ride the subway, turn on the lights, brush your teeth, switch on your computer, dispose of your selected garbage, watch the… More
Two Poems by Derek Gromadzki
how saints have bent slender here under orisons and absence / over which appearance tips and we the steadying More
Blogger’s Sentence Upheld; Fears for Safety
PEN International condemns the detention of blogger Jabeur Mejri, whose seven-and-a-half year sentence for expressing allegedly blasphemous views online was confirmed by the Court of Cassation on April 25,… More
A Story in Which I Look Good
If he feels pushed, he will turn into a bull, a storm. If the world is not careful, he will lower his horns. I am not sure the men… More
Ayşe Berktay’s Acceptance Remarks
Dear esteemed members of PEN American Center, dear guests,I very much wish I could be with you in person. It was not possible but I send to you my… More
Dispatch from South Africa: What’s Wrong with the Secrecy Bill?
We reached out to veteran journalist and Vice President of South African PEN Ray Louw to learn how the Secrecy Bill in South Africa is still a threat to… More
PEN International Launches Report on Creative Freedom in China
On World Press Freedom Day, PEN International launched The PEN Report: Creativity and Constraint in Today’s China: a frank assessment of the climate of freedom of expression in the… More
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