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Provisional
But straight away she hunches her shoulders, shivering. What a preposterous comparison, unusable in a short story: the odour here is not one of rotting seaweed, but rather the… More
Pen Joins Call for Release of Pussy Riot Band Members
Background Information On February 21, four members of the all-female punk rock band Pussy Riot entered the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow, wearing brightly colored outfits and balaclavas masking their faces. For… More
PEN Joins Call for Release of Pussy Riot Band Members
Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova have been held since March 4, and Ekaterina Samusevich since March 15. By the next trial hearing, they will have been held for well… More
Poetry and Globalization at NYU
So next week the Liberal Studies Program at NYU will be presenting a panel on Poetry and Globalization that sounds like a don’t-miss-it event for translation enthusiasts in the… More
Best Translated Book Award 2012 Shortlists
it’s time to find out which books have been selected for this year’s poetry and fiction shortlists. Both lists were announced last night at a ceremony in Rochester,… More
An Activist Guide to PEN World Voices
[caption id="attachment_11028" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="PEN World Voice Festival of International Literature"][/caption] For over 90 years, PEN has promoted literature and defended free expression by advocating on behalf of threatened writers… More
Nowy Targ, Autumn 2011
The map in my head contained only a street and a cemetery. I couldn’t remember how I’d found them the first time, not long after the fall of the… More
Where We Belong: A Conversation with Buket Uzuner and Amélie Nothomb
There is a difference between writing about yourself and about your personal life. Nowadays—not only in Turkey, but wherever I travel, mostly in Europe—young writers want to turn their… More
Amitava Kumar: The Map of My Village
The house was in an alley, set away from the winding street, and in that house were three communists who, during my first visit, sold me a book and… More
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