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Harrison Ford and E.O. Wilson Join With PEN to Create New Literary Award
PEN American Center announced today that acclaimed naturalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Dr. Edward O. Wilson and actor and conservationist Harrison Ford have joined with PEN to create… More
Prominent Dissident Writer Liu Xiaobo’s Appeal Rejected
International PEN continues to call on supporters to take action on behalf of Liu Xiaobo and others detained in China. Liu Xiaobo, former president and board member of the… More
Crackdown on Supporters of Prominent Dissident Writer and Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo
International PEN is alarmed by an apparent crackdown on Chinese writers and intellectuals following the awarding of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to imprisoned writer Liu Xiaobo, former president… More
Blogger Charged; Fears for Safety
International PEN is seriously concerned about the detention of Tal Al-Mallouhi, a 19-year-old blogger, poet, and high school student, who is reportedly facing charges of espionage. She has been… More
PEN’s Own Liu Xiaobo, Imprisoned Chinese Writer, Wins Nobel Peace Prize
PEN American Center today celebrated the news that Chinese colleague Liu Xiaobo, a literary critic, writer, and political activist who is serving an 11-year sentence in a Chinese prison,… More
Susan Choi Wins Inaugural PEN/W.G. Sebald Award for a Fiction Writer in Mid-Career
PEN American Center, the nation’s preeminent association of writers, editors, and translators, has announced Susan Choi as the recipient of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award, a new annual award recognizing… More
Trial of Publisher Ragıp Zarakolu Postponed
Ragip Zarakolu is accused of spreading propaganda seen to support the banned Kurdish Worker’s Party (PKK), through his publication Mehmet Güler’s book, The KCK File/The Global State and Kurds… More
Former President of PEN International Wins 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature
Mario Vargas Llosa was named as this year's Nobel literature laureate at a ceremony today in Sweden. Vargas Llosa has been an active member of PEN for many years… More
PEN Appeal: Hossein Derakhshan
October 5, 2010 Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic His Excellency Ayatollah Sayed ‘Ali Khamenei, The Office of the Supreme Leader Shoahada Street, Qom Islamic Republic of Iran Fax: +98 21 64 95 880 Head… More
PEN Appeal: Eynulla Fatullayev
October 6, 2010 President Ilham Aliyev Office of the President of the Azerbaijan Republic 19 Istiqlaliyyat Street Baku AZ1066 Azerbaijan Fax: + 994 12 492 0625 Minister of Internal Affairs Lt.-Gen. Ramil Usubov Ministry of Internal Affairs Husu… More
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