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Bob Holman

Bob Holman’s most recent collection, Sing This One Back to Me, includes poems in Welsh, translations from Ukrainian dumy (oral epics), and a section devoted to the Mandinke songs of his griot,… More

Cobina Gillitt

Cobina Gillitt, Ph.D. (translator, scholar, educator) serves on the Translation Committee of the PEN American Center and is an Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance at Purchase College, SUNY. She is a… More

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Free Expression The Free Expression Programs defend writers and protect free expression in the United States and around the world. Prison Writing The Prison Writing Program sponsors an annual writing contest, publishes a… More

About PEN

“PEN is the voice of cultures truthfully addressing one another rather than governments or armies in confrontation. The object is not to win something, but to illuminate something.” —Arthur Miller PEN… More

Xiaolu Guo

Xiaolu Guo published six books in China before moving to London in 2002. The English translation of Village of Stone was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and nominated for the International IMPAC… More

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Wole Soyinka

A Yoruba born in Western Nigeria and educated in Ibadan and the University of Leeds in England, Wole Soyinka was the first African to win the Nobel Prize for… More

Uljana Wolf

Uljana Wolf is a German poet and translator based in Brooklyn and Berlin. She published four books of poetry with kookbooks, most recently meine schönste lengevitch and SONNE FROM ORT, a collaborative erasure of Elizabeth Barrett-Browning’s sonnets… More

Sara Khalili

Sara Khalili is an editor and translator of contemporary Iranian literature. Her translations include Censoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriar Mandanipour, Kissing the Sword: A Prison Memoir by Shahrnush Parsipur, The… More

Roger Sedarat

Roger Sedarat is a poet and translator. He is the author of Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic (Ohio UP), which won the 2007 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, and Ghazal Games… More