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2014 PEN World Voices: Video
Opening NightOpening Night PEN World Voices: Sofi Oksanen Opening Night of PEN World Voices: Salman RushdieOpening Night of PEN World Voices: Noam ChomskyOpening Night of PEN World Voices: Paul BermanOpening… More
PEN World Voices Festival Opens ‘On the Edge’
The 10th annual PEN World Voices Festival got underway Monday night with a series of brief politically focused speeches by prominent international writers at the Great Hall at Cooper… More
Concerto for Jerusalem
For so long I’ve begged bread to criticize salt. Many times, I’ve heard people ask me, whispering, “Why is death always late in Jerusalem, … More
2014 Opening Letter
Dear Friends,Ten years ago, in 2004, Salman Rushdie, then President of the PEN American Center, had the idea of initiating an international literature festival in New York City—something which… More
A Letter from PEN
Dear Friends, Ten years ago, in 2004, Salman Rushdie, then President of the PEN American Center, had the idea of initiating an international literature festival in New York City –… More
Martin Amis and Lydia Davis on the Bill for PEN World Voices Festival
The British novelist Martin Amis, the American short story writer Lydia Davis, the former Polish dissident journalist Adam Michnik, the Iranian artist Shirin Neshat, and the Syrian poet Adonis… More
PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature Marks Tenth Anniversary, April 28-May 4, 2014
A Weeklong Series of Readings, Debates, Performances, and Workshop Celebrates Writers Who Have Taken Artistic and Political RisksParticipants include Adonis, Boris Akunin, Martin Amis, Lydia Davis, Timothy Garton Ash,… More
2011 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
WinnerThe 2011 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation went to Khaled Mattawa for Adonis: Selected Poems (Yale University Press, The Margellos World Republic of Letters Series).The PEN Award for… More
2011 Literary Award Winners
PEN/Robert W. Bingham PrizeSusanna Daniel, Stiltsville (Harper) Danielle Evans, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self (Riverhead Trade)Runner Up:Teddy Wayne, Kapitoil (Harper Perennial)PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardSiddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor… More
Khaled Mattawa
Khaled Mattawa was born in Benghazi, Libya, in 1964 and immigrated to the United States in 1979. He received an MFA in creative writing from Indiana University and a Ph.D from… More
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