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What U.S. Publishers Owe China
In 1962, Chinese President Liu Shaoqi warned Mao Zedong: “History will record the role you and I played in the starvation of so many people, and the cannibalization will… More
2015 Literary Award Winners
PEN/Robert W. Bingham PrizeThe Dog (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) by Jack Livings PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay Theater of Cruelty: Art, Film, and the Shadows of War (New… More
US Group: Foreign Authors Censored in China Without Knowing
A U.S.-based advocacy group is warning Western authors to be vigilant of censorship of their work in China's fast-growing book publishing industry, which is sometimes done without their knowledge. More
H.G. Adler: A Survivor’s Dual Reverie (video)
Compared by critics to Kafka and Joyce, H. G. Adler is quickly gaining recognition as a key figure in twentieth-century fiction. A panel of writers and journalists came together… More
PEN Announces Literary Award Winners
This morning, PEN American Center announced the winners of the 2015 PEN Literary Awards. The annual awards, which total more than $150,000, honor emerging and established writers in seventeen… More
Griswold, Howe, and Jones among recipients for 2015 PEN Literary Awards
NEW YORK— PEN American Center today announced the winners for the 2015 PEN Literary Awards. Among the recipients are Eliza Griswold, winner of the prestigious PEN Translation Prize for… More
2015 PEN Literary Award Winners
BOOK AWARDS PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction ($25,000): To an author whose debut work—a first novel or collection of short stories published in 2014—represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great… More
Announcing the 2015 PEN Literary Award Winners
It is with great excitement that PEN announces the winners of the 2015 PEN Literary Awards. After considerable deliberation, this year's judges have made their final decisions for PEN's… More
The PEN World Voices Festival As It Happened: “Divine Punishment”
There were moments on the panel when Ramirez and Caistor spoke like old friends. They talked about meeting for the first time at the Managua Book Festival in 1986.… More
The PEN World Voices Festival As It Happened: “Armenian Genocide: A Dark Paradigm”
The event was not a bleak centennial memorial but rather an inspiring commemoration of Armenian authors who continue to endure through the cultural lives of their work. More