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PEN Welcomes Deji Olukotun as First Freedom to Write Fellow
PEN American Center today announced that Deji Olukotun, a lawyer and writer with extensive international development and advocacy experience, is the recipient of a new Ford Foundation-sponsored 18-month fellowship… More
PEN Mourns Loss of Renowned Translator and PEN Member Joachim Neugroschel
PEN joins the international literary community in mourning the passing of prolific literary translator, essayist, art critic, poet, editor, and publisher Joachim Neugroschel, who died on May 23 in… More
Yiyun Li on Sketches from a Hunter’s Album
You walk into Turgenev’s stories as into a dream that you have often had: the darkened faces of peasant women behind the fire, the hooves of the horses stirring… More
Journalist Abducted in Sinaloa State Found Dead
PEN International is dismayed to learn that journalist Humberto Millán Salazar, who was abducted in Culiacán, Sinaloa state on August 24, 2011, was found dead the next day. More
Three Poems from Vanishing-Line
even in extremity, / hardship, they belonged / to, communion, / their voices, memory, / of the forest / of the air / of the weeping birds / of… More
Trial of Bbc Journalist Begins
The trial of journalist Urinboy Usmonov of the British Broadcasting Service’s Central Asian Service has begun. Usmonov has been indicted on fabricated charges of "complicity in the activities of… More
Journalist Abducted in Sinaloa State; Fears for Safety
PEN International is alarmed by the abduction of Humberto Millán Salazar, editor of the online newspaper A-Discusión and presenter for Radio Fórmula, in Culiacán, Sinaloa state, on August 24,… More
Internet Writer Sentenced
PEN International protests the three-year sentence handed down to French-Vietnamese university teacher and Internet writer Pham Minh Hoang on August 10, 2011, for his critical online writings. It calls… More
Summer Writing Institute: A Literary Expedition
As part of PEN’s Summer Writing Institute, Readers & Writers Director Stacy Leigh and instructor Geof Bankowski took their workshop of high school students to lower Manhattan on a… More
Match My Own
I held my mother’s hand as we strolled down Mott Street, entering the outskirts of Chinatown. More
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