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PEN Appeal: Nedim ?ener and Ahmet ??k
March 13, 2012 Minister of Justice Mr. Sadullah Ergin 06669 Kizilay Ankara Turkey Fax: 00 90 312 419 3370 Your Excellency, On behalf of the 3,500 members of PEN American Center, an international organization of writers… More
Writers Nedim Şener and Ahmet Şık Freed Pending Trial
Writers Nedim Şener and Ahmet Şık have been released after over a year in prison, though they may still face conviction and long imprisonment on charges that breach international… More
Turkish Translator and Publisher on Trial: Take Action!
Last year, I reported on the trial of Turkish publisher İrfan Sancı and translator Süha Sertabiboğlu for their January 2011 publication of William S. Burrough’s 1961 novel The Soft… More
PEN Appeal: Saidov, Mahmudov, Bekjanov, Abdurakhmanov, and Khamidov
March 12, 2012 President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam A. Karimov Rezidentsyia prezidenta Ul. Uzbekistaniskaya 43 Tashkent Uzbekistan Fax: +998 71 139 5325 Minister of Justice Nigmatilla Tulqinovich Yuldoshev 5, Saylgokh Str. Tashkent Uzbekistan Fax: +998 71 2335176 Head… More
Turkish Translator and Publisher on Trial: Take Action!
[caption id="" align="none" width="320" caption="Turkish editions of Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs and Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk"][/caption] Last year, I reported on the trial of Turkish publisher ?rfan Sanc?… More
Latest Amnesty Excludes Imprisoned Writers
PEN International is disappointed that a recent amnesty has not included five writers and journalists, all serving long prison sentences. More
What Poets Write
What do poets write and say when they don’t write pomes and poetics essays—or poems that ARE poetics essays? More
Octaves Later
Beyond / the nerve tonic / I came up rather quickly / now it’s a way of saying something / as if another century had passed More
John Krygier/Denis Wood: Ce N?est Pas Le Monde
Below is new graphic analysis by John Krygier and Denis Wood. It appears in PEN America 15: Maps. Ce N’est Pas Le Monde 120456 More
The 1920s: PEN’s Founding and Early Years
Throughout the year, we’ll be celebrating PEN’s 90th anniversary by looking at the key events, cases, and characters from the organization’s history. As part of our online retrospective, we’ll… More
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