Armenian Genocide: A Dark Paradigm (full video)
This panel discusses the Armenian Genocide—a glimpse into the darkest regions of the human soul—and its significance as a “dark paradigm” for later attempts by governments to silence writers… 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
Professional Ethics and the Denial of Armenian Genocide
This article examines Turkish efforts to deny the Armenian Genocide of 1915–17, explores why intellectuals might engage in the denial of known genocides, and reflects on the relationship between… More
Two Pieces by Nancy Kricorian
Oh people of long memory, listen, look, speak, remember: your stories are a homeland. More
Siamanto’s Bloody News
An entire generation of Western Armenian writers were extinguished by the Ottoman government just as they were [...] bringing Armenian literature into modernism and into an international light. More
Learning About the Armenian Genocide
Armenians were neither passive nor submissive victims, but the power to decide their fate was largely out of their hands. A “great inequality in agency” existed between Young Turks… More
The PEN Ten with Eric Bogosian
"We are no longer living in an era of the printed word radiating outward from author toward readers. Words come in short bursts, ideas ping-pong, thinking itself has become… More