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New York Review of Books: Free Eskinder Nega!
[caption id="attachment_11203" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Eskinder Nega, photo by Lennart Kjörling"][/caption] The New York Review of Books has published a PEN-initiated letter calling on President Obama and all world leaders to… More
Executive Director Steven L. Isenberg to Leave PEN
New York City, May 30, 2012—Steven L. Isenberg, who has served as Executive Director of PEN American Center since 2009, announced today in a letter to PEN’s President and… More
PEN Heading to Supreme Court in Warrantless Surveillance Case
The U.S. Supreme Court today announced that it will consider whether a case brought by PEN and a number of other human rights, labor, and media organizations challenging the… More
Jailed Ethiopian journalist Eskinder Nega honoured
An imprisoned Ethiopian journalist and blogger has been given a prestigious freedom of expression award. More
Heroic Ethiopian Journalist Eskinder Nega, Turkish Publisher Ragip Zarakolu Honored
Edward Albee, Margaret Atwood, E.L Doctorow, Zadie Smith, and Kwame Anthony Appiah were among the more than 500 PEN luminaries and supporters who joined last night in honoring Eskinder… More
Imprisoned Ethiopian journalist honored with PEN Award
An imprisoned Ethiopian journalist and blogger who could face the death penalty for advocating peaceful protests in his Horn of Africa homeland was honored Tuesday with PEN America’s “Freedom… More
You Wait for Me with Dust: Worldwide Reading for Liu Xiaobo
Today, over 100 individuals, organizations, bookstores, and PEN centers are participating in a worldwide reading organized to honor our imprisoned colleague, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo. More
Visas Denied to Artists
As an organization devoted to a free exchange of literature and ideas around the world, PEN was pleased to receive assurances from the State Department last year that the… More
Top PEN Prize to Honor Eskinder Nega, Jailed Ethiopian Journalist and Blogger
PEN American Center today named Eskinder Nega, a journalist and dissident blogger in Ethiopia, as the recipient of its 2012 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award. Nega, a leading… More
Elisabeth Sifton Appointed At-Large Trustee
The Board of PEN American Center, the largest branch of the world’s oldest literary and human rights organization, voted at their meeting on March 8, 2012, to appoint Elisabeth… More
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