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Journalist Killed on World Press Freedom Day
International PEN protests in the strongest possible terms the murder of yet another Mexican journalist, Carlos Ortega Samper of El Tiempo de Durango, who was shot dead on May… More
Newspaper Editor Released
International PEN welcomes the release of newspaper editor Nadesapillai Vithyatharan on April 24, 2009. More
PEN Translation Fund Announces Its 2009 Grant Recipients
The PEN Translation Fund, now in its sixth year, is pleased to announce the winners of its 2009 competition. Out of a field of precisely 100 applicants, the Fund’s… More
PEN American Center Announces 2009 Literary Award Recipients
Kwame Anthony Appiah, president of PEN American Center, the national association of literary writers, and Elissa Schappell, chair of PEN’s Literary Awards Committee, have announced the recipients of the… More
On World Press Freedom Day, PEN Launches Americas Campaign
PEN American Center is marking World Press Freedom Day today by launching the “Freedom to Write in the Americas” campaign which will run through the rest of 2009, and… More
Call for Release of Milton Chacaguasay
International PEN renews its call for the release of La Verdad editor Milton Chacaguasay Flores, who has been imprisoned since November 2008 for allegedly libeling a judge. More
Prominent Writer Liu Xiaobo Honored in New York
PEN America honored Liu Xiaobo, one of China’s preeminent dissident writers and activists and a leading figure in the PEN movement internationally, with PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award. More
Serious Concerns for Zargana’s Health
International PEN is alarmed by reports that imprisoned leading comedian and poet Zargana is in poor health and has not been given full access to medical care and family… More
The Year We Drowned
Grandmother is a young woman, hardly older than me, and is walking in the woods somewhere in Mitteleuropa: looking for mushrooms, perhaps, the trumpet-shaped flutes of the black chanterelle… More
PEN Appeal: Sakit Zakhidov and Ali Hasanov
April 22, 2009 President Ilham Aliyev The President Palace 19 Istiqlaliyyat Street Baku, AZ1066 Republic of Azerbaijan Fax: + 994 12 492 0625 Lt.-Gen. Ramil Usubov Minister of Internal Affairs Ministry of… More
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