PEN International Commemorates 50 Years of Work on Day of the Imprisoned Writer
The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of PEN International commemorates its 50th year in 2010 on the International Day of the Imprisoned Writer, and pays tribute to 41 writers… More
PEN American Center President Appiah Testifies Before Congress on Liu Xiaobo
In testimony before Congress on Tuesday, PEN American Center President Kwame Anthony Appiah criticized the Chinese government’s attempts to censor information about the awarding of this year’s Nobel… More
PEN American Center Concerned About Increased Pressure on PEN Members in China
Chinese authorities appear to be stepping up pressure on members of the Independent Chinese PEN Center (ICPC) as part of a campaign to limit information about the awarding of… More
PEN Revives $5,000 Essay Award
PEN American Center announced today that the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, first created in 1991 and on hiatus since 2005, has been revived, with the… More
Harrison Ford and E.O. Wilson Join With PEN to Create New Literary Award
PEN American Center announced today that acclaimed naturalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Dr. Edward O. Wilson and actor and conservationist Harrison Ford have joined with PEN to create… More
PEN’s Own Liu Xiaobo, Imprisoned Chinese Writer, Wins Nobel Peace Prize
PEN American Center today celebrated the news that Chinese colleague Liu Xiaobo, a literary critic, writer, and political activist who is serving an 11-year sentence in a Chinese prison,… More
Susan Choi Wins Inaugural PEN/W.G. Sebald Award for a Fiction Writer in Mid-Career
PEN American Center, the nation’s preeminent association of writers, editors, and translators, has announced Susan Choi as the recipient of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award, a new annual award recognizing… More
Former President of PEN International Wins 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature
Mario Vargas Llosa was named as this year's Nobel literature laureate at a ceremony today in Sweden. Vargas Llosa has been an active member of PEN for many years… More
PEN American Center President Presses Case of Liu Xiaobo for 2010 Nobel
PEN American Center President Kwame Anthony Appiah last night renewed his call to the Nobel Committee to recognize Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo with this year’s Peace Prize, telling an… More
Leading Writers Unite in Fight for Free Expression
PEN International, the worldwide community of writers and foremost advocate for free expression, meets in Tokyo this week to urge increased campaigning on behalf of silenced and imprisoned colleagues.… More
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