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Writer and Thinker Released and Deported
Writer and thinker Salama Kila was released on May 13, 2012, and deported to Jordan. Kila was reportedly subjected to torture while in detention. More
Julian Sanchez: On Fiction and Surveillance
"When we talk about surveillance and privacy—perhaps more than any other political question—we speak a language borrowed from fiction." More
Julian Sanchez: On Fiction and Surveillance
[caption id="attachment_11940" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Julian Sanchez © Susan Morgan/PEN American Center"][/caption] At this year's PEN World Voices Festival, the panel Life in the Panopticon: Thoughts on Freedom in an Era… More
Provisional
But straight away she hunches her shoulders, shivering. What a preposterous comparison, unusable in a short story: the odour here is not one of rotting seaweed, but rather the… More
Eskinder Nega’s Verdict Postponed
PEN American Center President Peter Godwin issued the following statement in response to the announcement by the Federal High Court in Addis Ababa that it was postponing issuing a… More
Investigative Journalist Murdered in Veracruz
Regina Martínez, a correspondent for the investigative news magazine Proceso, was found dead at her home in Veracruz state on April 28, 2012. More
Heroic Ethiopian Journalist Eskinder Nega, Turkish Publisher Ragip Zarakolu Honored
Edward Albee, Margaret Atwood, E.L Doctorow, Zadie Smith, and Kwame Anthony Appiah were among the more than 500 PEN luminaries and supporters who joined last night in honoring Eskinder… More
Re-Trial Ordered of Jailed Human Rights Defenders, Writers, and Bloggers
Academic, blogger, and human rights activist Dr. Abduljalil al-Singace and human rights defender Abdulhadi al-Khawaja remain in detention after an appeals court ordered a re-trial of their case and… More
PEN Appeal: Abduljalil Al-Singace and Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja
May 1, 2012 King of Bahrain His Majesty Sheikh Hamad bin Issa Al-Khalifa Office of His Majesty the King P.O.Box 555 Rifa’a Palace Kingdom of Bahrain Fax: +973 176 64 587 Minister of Justice and Islamic… More
Translation Matters at the 2012 PEN World Voices Festival
PEN World Voices is a festival of international literature, so translation plays a role in nearly every panel, since the work of most of these writers from around the… More
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