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Writer Liao Yiwu Finally Permitted to Travel Outside China
PEN American Center today welcomed the Chinese government’s decision to lift its travel ban against renowned writer and Independent Chinese PEN Center Board Member Liao Yiwu, who is traveling… More
Point Omega
I tormented myself over the running time, settling finally on a freakish fifty-seven-minute movie that was screened at a couple of documentary festivals. It could have been a hundred… More
Voice from Beyond the Grave
Voice from Beyond the GraveHere lie my mortal remainsIn the field of eternal restThe last stop of a transient life with multiple destiniesThe clay covers my icy dead bodyThe… More
Three More Journalists Released
International PEN is delighted at the news of the release of three more Cuban journalists imprisoned since 2003. Fabio Prieto Llorente and Juan Carlos Herrera Acosta touched down in… More
Writers Support Park51 Project, Religious Freedom
PEN American Center, the New York-based center of the 89-year-old international literary and human rights organization PEN, today released a statement in support of the proposed Park51 Community Center… More
PEN Appeal: Ulugbek Abdusalamov
August 17, 2010 Kubatbek Baibolov Minister of Internal Affairs Frunze Street, 469 Bishkek 720040 KYRGYZSTAN Fax: +996 312 68 20 44 Baitemir Ibraev General Prosecutor 72, Orozbekova Street Bishkek 720040 KYRGYZSTAN Fax: +996 312 66 54 11 Your Excellencies: On behalf of the… More
Twelfth Writer Released into Exile
International PEN is pleased to report the release of another Cuban writer imprisoned since 2003. More
PEN Appeal: Gheyret Niyaz, Dilshat Perhat, Nureli, and Nijat Azat
August 11, 2010 His Excellency Hu Jintao President of the People’s Republic of China State Council Beijing 100032 P.R. China Nur Bekri Chairman of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Regional People’s Government Xinjiang Weiwuer Zizhiqu… More
PEN Remembers Richard Miller
PEN is deeply saddened by the recent death of PEN Member and translator Richard Miller. Mr. Miller was a Trustee of PEN from 1979–1981 and was also the Chair… More