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October Featured Cases: Women & Free Expression
Women’s free expression must be celebrated and utilized as a tool to further gender equality and women’s rights. This month, PEN features the cases of Liu Xia, Shiva Nazar… More
Meet the Judges for the 2016 PEN Literary Awards
PEN is pleased to introduce the esteemed judges of the 2016 PEN Literary Awards. More
Free Expression Daily Digest: Wed., October 7
Bangladeshi spies accused of blocking media adverts, Ghana suspends judges after film, and an Internet ban in Kashmir halts journalists' work. More
Anna Politkovskaya | Status: Murdered | Russia
Anna Politkovskaya was an accomplished journalist, writer, and human rights activist. She produced a large body of work on human rights abuses in Russia and was murdered for her… More
PEN Podcast: Lisa Appignanesi Reads from the Final, Unfinished Column of Anna Politkovskaya
Russian journalist, writer, and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated in October 7, 2006. Today's #PENpodcast honors Anna Politkovskaya by featuring Lisa Appignanesi reading from her final unfinished… More
Cold War Dress Code: Remembering Inna Lisnyanskaya
Paradoxically, the Metropole affair both silenced Lisnyanskaya as a poet in the USSR and liberated her from the restrictions imposed by publishing (self-censorship being an obligatory tool in the… More
Free Expression Daily Digest: Fri., September 25
The cost of business with China, "Snowden Treaty," and a surveillance program named for 1990's Radiohead hit. More
September Bronx Writers Center Dispatch: Orlando Ferrand
Writer, artist, and PEN member Orlando Ferrand reflects on his tumultuous adolescence in Cuba, where politics and sex made uneasy bedfellows. More
Free Expression Daily Digest: Thurs., September 17
Ukraine bans journalists who 'threaten national interests' from country, international journalists beaten by Hungarian police, and Burkina Faso media is curtailed after coup. More
Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf Joins PEN American Center as New Curator of Literary Programs
A native of Martinique, Rosaz Shariyf has over a decade of experience in curating public arts, educational, and advocacy programs More