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Peter Godwin Elected as President of PEN American Center
PEN American Center, the largest branch of the world’s oldest literary and human rights organization, announced today at its Annual Members Meeting the election of Peter Godwin as its… 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
2012 PEN American Center Election Results
PEN American Center announced at the Annual Members Meeting the election of Peter Godwin as the president. Godwin succeeds Kwame Anthony Appiah, who served as president for the last… More
HotINK Festival
While many of the world’s greatest plays are only known to American audiences through translation (those by Sophocles, Ibsen, Chekhov, Brecht, and Ionesco, to name but a very few),… More
Unnatural Disasters
A reader’s mind is terraced by unwreckable geographies. No terrorist can bomb Kafka’s castle and its surrounding stone wend, no tornado can churn to dust O’Connor’s hot small towns.… More
Writer Sent to Labor Camp
Human rights activist, writer, and Belarus PEN member Ales Bialiatski’s four-and-a-half-year sentence has been upheld on January 24, 2012. More
PEN Appeal: Ales Bialiatski
March 2, 2012 President of the Republic of Belarus Aleksandr G. Lukashenko Karl Marx Str. 38 220016 g. Minsk Belarus Fax: + 375 172 26 06 10 or +375 172 22 38 72 Your Excellency, On behalf… More
Mahmoud Darwish: What is Lost
In exile you choose a space to tame habit, a private space for your journal. So you write: Place is not the trap. We can say: Here we have… More
El Universo Pardoned; Sentence Against Two Authors Withdrawn
PEN International warmly welcomes the news that President Rafael Correa will pardon the three owners and former editor of the newspaper El Universo, and also that he will withdraw… More
Remembering Barney Rosset
Barney Rosset’s death demands a focus on a life filled with extremes. His financial ups and downs—mainly downs—his personal intensity; his absolute unwillingness to compromise: these, combined with a… More
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