PEN Welcomes Release of Award-Winning Burmese Blogger Nay Phone Latt
PEN American Center is thrilled by the news that blogger Nay Phone Latt, the 2010 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award winner, has been released from prison in Myanmar… More
PEN Welcomes Paul Morris as Director of Membership, Marketing, Literary Awards
PEN is pleased to announce the appointment of Paul Morris as Director of Membership, Marketing, and Literary Awards, and the promotion of Jasmine Davey to Coordinator of Membership, Literary… More
PEN Condemns Year-End Convictions of Two Chinese Writers
PEN American Center reacted angrily to the news that the Chinese government has again used the cover of the year-end holidays to try and sentence two writers to long… More
PEN to Liu Xiaobo: You Are Not Forgotten
One year after the Nobel Committee awarded the Peace Prize to PEN Member Liu Xiaobo in absentia, PEN American Center called on U.S. Congress and the international community to… More
PEN Delegation Refused Entry to Belarus
A delegation from the Norwegian and Danish PEN centers that was on its way to meet writers and assess the situation for freedom of expression in Belarus was detained… More
PEN Welcomes Release of Uzbek Writer Dzamshid Karimov
PEN American Center today welcomed news that Uzbek journalist and PEN Honorary Member Dzamshid Karimov, who had been detained in a psychiatric facility for five years for reporting on… More
PEN Calls for Press Freedom at Occupy Sites
PEN American Center and PEN International today condemned restrictions on press coverage of police crackdowns on Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in New York and elsewhere, calling the arrests of… More
Day of the Imprisoned Writer
Today, PEN International will mark the 30th annual Day of the Imprisoned Writer, an international day of action intended to recognize and support writers who have resisted repression of… More
Day of the Imprisoned Writer
Today, PEN International will mark the 30th annual Day of the Imprisoned Writer, an international day of action intended to recognize and support writers who have resisted repression of… More
PEN Welcomes Peter Godwin and Clinton Ives Smullyan Jr. to Board of Trustees
The Board of PEN American Center, the largest branch of the world’s oldest literary and human rights organization, voted at their meeting on October 20, 2011, to appoint Peter… More
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