Edith Grossman: Making Translation Matter
Presented by the PEN America Translation Committee as part of the 2016 World Voices Festival of International Literature at the Cervantes Institute in Manhattan Honoring One of the… More
Nikki Giovanni: Making James Baldwin
"Never refuse to hear the cry of the anguished, or the laughter in the blues." Nikki Giovanni pays tribute to James Baldwin. Listen to this week's #PENpodcast in honor of… More
Remembering E. L. Doctorow (1931–2015)
We celebrate the acclaimed writer's life and work as both a literary master and fierce advocate for fellow writers and artists. More
A Tribute to Pablo Neruda
Martín Espada reads his translations of Neruda’s “Octopi” and "The Celestial Poets," and his own poem, “The Fugitive Poets of Fenway Park.” More
Remembering Günter Grass (1927-2015)
PEN American Center mourns the loss and celebrates the life of German PEN member, honorary PEN president, and Nobel Laureate Gunter Grass, who died on Monday, aged 87. More
Remembering Eduardo Galeano (1940-2015)
PEN American Center is deeply saddened by the passing of Eduardo Galeano, one of Latin America's most iconic writers and famed for his journalism, novels, and political satire… More
André Brink, We Bid You Farewell
A prolific and versatile writer, André Brink (1935–2015) has shaped the course of South African literature for more than fifty years. More
Amiri Baraka: Our Man Jimmy
This excerpt is part of the Twentieth-Century Masters Tribute to James Baldwin, sponsored by PEN American Center and Lincoln Center, with The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture… More
Maya Angelou: 1928-2014
One of the most influential books written in English, Angelou’s transformative autobiography unleashed the genre of the American memoir to new possibilities. With 39 public bans since 1983 for… More
Postscript: Peter Matthiessen
On April 5, 2014, we learned that the American writer Peter Matthiessen, 86, had died in a hospital near his home in Sagaponack, New York. He had been suffering… More
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