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PEN Condemns Threats Against Salman Rushdie
PEN American Center today denounced renewed threats against the life of author and former PEN American Center president Salman Rushdie, calling the announcement by Iranian cleric Ayatollah Hassan Sane’i… More
Swedish Journalists Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson Released
PEN International welcomes the release on September 11, 2012, of Swedish journalists Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson. Schibbye and Persson had been in the Ethiopian prison system since July… More
ICPC Member Jiao Guobiao Prevented from Attending PEN International Congress
On Friday, September 7, we received news from our Independent Chinese PEN Center colleagues that Dr. Jiao Guobiao, an ICPC member based in Beijing, was put under house arrest… More
Sentences Upheld Against Jailed Human Rights Defenders, Writers, and Bloggers
PEN International protests the continued detention of activists and bloggers including Abdulhadi al-Khawaja and Dr. Abduljalil al-Singace after the High Court of Appeal in Bahrain upheld their life sentences… More
Azeri Poets Released
PEN International welcomes the release on September 4, 2012, of Azeri writers Farid Huseyn and Shahriyar Hajizade, who had been held in Iran since May 2, 2012. According to… More
PEN History
PEN History The P.E.N. (poets, playwrights, essayists, editors, and novelists) American Center was founded in New York City in the spring of 1922. A year earlier in London, the… More
Other PEN Centers
International PEN CentersPEN Center USA PEN New EnglandBasque PENBelarussian PENBosnian PENPEN CanadaPEN CatalanPEN ChinaCuban Writers in ExileDanish PENEnglish PENPEN GaliciaPEN GermanyInternational PENIrish PENItalian PENKurdish PENMacedonian PENPEN MexicoMontenegrin PENNorwegian PENPhilippine PENPolish… More
The PEN World
International PEN, the worldwide association of writers, was founded in 1921 to promote friendship and intellectual cooperation among writers everywhere; to emphasize the role of literature in the development… More
Children’s/Young Adult Book Authors Committee
The Children’s/Young Adult Book Authors Committee supports writers and librarians whose books have been banned or challenged. We are eager to receive information about these actions so that we… More
PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers
“PEN America is an entrancing magazine: when it arrives, I fall helplessly into it, and am lost to everything else.”—Cynthia OzickPEN’s semi-annual literary journal publishes fiction, poetry, conversation, criticism,… More
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