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PEN America CEO to U.S. House Panel: Book Bans and Educational Gag Orders are ‘an Orchestrated Effort to Polarize, Intimidate, and Restrict Flow of Ideas’

Press ReleaseMay 19, 2022

Nossel, a former diplomat and veteran human rights advocate, warned that these disturbing trends at home tarnish America’s global image and undermine the effort to counter rising authoritarianism. “As… More

Writer Andrey Kurkov: Ukrainians Will Never Abandon Faith in Human Rights or Hope for Freedom

Press ReleaseMay 13, 2022

“The level of journalism traditionally shows the level of democracy in society. We can see how independent journalism is being destroyed by the example of annexed Crimea,” he said.… More

Outdoor Evening Poetry Reading April 21 Celebrates Cuban Artist Raul Cordero’s Art Installation “THE POEM” in NYC

Press ReleaseApril 18, 2022

The evening will feature short readings from poets Jaime Manrique, Eloisa Amezcua, Melissa Lozada-Oliva, and Maya Pope, and a vigil in solidarity with artists targeted by the Cuban government… More

Statement: Publisher’s Decision to Pull “Bad and Boujee” Book is “Misguided and Regrettable”

Press ReleaseApril 16, 2022

"When debates over books and authors have a racial dimension, they can get heated quickly because they tap into long histories of exclusion and marginalization of people of color… More

Human Rights Advocate Liesl Gerntholtz Joins PEN America as Inaugural Director of the PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Center

Press ReleaseApril 14, 2022

PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel said: "We are delighted to have Liesl Gerntholtz join PEN America to spearhead our global work to defend writers and confront mounting threats to… More

PEN America 2021 Freedom to Write Index: Myanmar Joins China and Saudi Arabia as World’s Top Jailers of Writers

Press ReleaseApril 13, 2022

During 2021, Myanmar accounted for the single-largest increase of writers and public intellectuals newly jailed for exercising free expression, due to the military junta’s crackdown on influential voices. More

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2021 Freedom to Write Honoree Keyvan Bajan Is Released from Prison in Iran After Nearly One And a Half Years

Press ReleaseMarch 10, 2022

Iran is among the world’s most restrictive countries for freedom of expression. In 2020, PEN America found that Iran imprisoned the fourth-highest number of writers and public intellectuals in… More

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PEN America Free Expression Essay Competition

PEN America's Free Expression Essay Competition invites high school and college students to write essays about threats to free expression. More

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Communication to the UN Commission on the Status of Women on the Persecution of Iranian Women’s Rights Defenders

AdvocacyJuly 21, 2021

We joined Iranian human rights organizations to alert the UN CSW to the persecution and prosecution of women human rights defenders in Iran. More

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Statement by PEN to the 65th UN Commission on the Status of Women

AdvocacyOctober 22, 2020

PEN is concerned about women facing harsh consequences for their expression to advance women’s rights, equality, and full participation in civic life. More

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Outstanding piece by @andreacgore, Vacek Chair in pharmacology/professor of psychology at UT-Austin, defending faculty tenure against SB 18. She argues that immunotherapy would not exist if UT-Austin had not given tenure to its discoverer. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/university-texas-andrea-gore-professor-tenure-17816783.php

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What does academic freedom mean now, and how might it change?

Here's our whole Future Trends Forum conversation with @ACEducation and @PENamerica researchers:

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#RIP John Woods, Masterly Translator of Thomas Mann, Dies at 80

Woods was the recipient of two PEN America Translation awards, in 1981 and 1987

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