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Voices from Ukraine and Belarus Part II
Biblical tradition heavily also had a strong influence on Ukrainian literature and poetry in particular. In short, there has always been an active exchange going on, even when at… More
Voices from Ukraine and Belarus Part I
Nobody has yet cancelled Joseph Brodsky's formula that a poet shouldn't interfere with politics, unless politics interfers with a poet. In the authoritarian Belarus there are all kinds of… More
Conquering Displacement With Words
When he was just 22, the Spanish-Argentine writer Andrés Neuman was anointed by no less a luminary than the Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño, who had a discriminating eye for… More
2014 PEN Translation Prize
WinnerJoanne Turnbull & Nikolai Formozov, Autobiography of a Corpse by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (New York Review Books)The $3,000 PEN Translation Prize honors a book-length translation from any language into English.2014… More
Testimonials by Co-Hosts of 2014 PEN New Members/New Books Party
The concept of free expression is very near and dear in my heart. My parents came from China, and growing up we were taught that we could never take… More
Red Love: The Story of an East German Family
I’m the bourgeois in our family. That’s chiefly because my parents were never bourgeois. When I was ten, my father walked round with his hair alternately dyed green or… More
My Ideals and the Career Path I Have Chosen
Han and Uyghur netizens have been talking past each other, with no opportunities to exchange views one-on-one and listen meaningfully to each other. More
The Silent Woman
I stuck the knifepoint into one of the spaces between my black-gloved fingers. Then into the space between the fingers next to it . . . Several men tensely… More
My Own Private Normandy
I saw a cross that was different from any of the others. It did not give a city, or a name, or a date; it said only, “Here rests… More
Stranger in My Own Country
No, it was not natural that my family was so small, for Leon and Ewa should have had parents who might still have been alive when I was born.… More
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