PEN Québec: A New Generation on a Familiar Quest for Literary Identity
There’s always a quest for identity. Whichever way you look at it, I feel that every writer in Québec is somehow drawn to this question. More
PEN Uyghur Center: Powerful Literature in a Fleeting Language
As a Uyghur writer, I cannot truly understand or write any novel, story, or poem in Chinese. It isn’t possible because Chinese is not my language… More
PEN Estonia: Raising Popularity of Women’s Writing
The women writers are gaining ground. Books by women and girls are popular and writing is popular with women. We have many wonderful ones but let me introduce two… More
PEN Mexico: A Flourishing Literary Scene Despite Ongoing Impunity
In the eighth PEN World Series feature, we speak to PEN Mexico about the free expression challenges facing Mexican writers and journalists. More
PEN Afrikaans: Rethinking a Language and its Legacy
In the seventh installment of the PEN World Series, we speak to PEN Afrikaans about the free expression challenges facing speakers of Afrikaans in South Africa. More
Ukrainian PEN: Flourishing Expression in the Face of Repression and Dichotomy
In the fifth installment of the PEN World Series, we speak to Ukrainian PEN about the free expression challenges and literary traditions of Ukraine. More
German PEN: Facing Challenges to Integration and Hate Speech
In the fourth installment of the PEN World Series, we speak to German PEN about the free expression challenges and literary traditions of Germany. More
Zambian PEN Center: Promoting Literature & Indigenous Languages
In the fourth installment of the PEN World Series, we speak to Zambian PEN Center about the free expression challenges and literary traditions of Zambia. More
PEN Eritrea: Defiance in the Face of Extreme Repression
In the third installment of the PEN World Series, we speak to PEN Eritrea about the free expression challenges and literary traditions of Eritrea. More
PEN South Africa: Looking Towards Progress
In the second installment of the PEN World Series, we speak to PEN South Africa about the free expression challenges and literary traditions of South Africa. More
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Cameroonian journalist Samuel Wazizi, who was arrested in August for criticizing the government's handling of a separatist revolt, has died in detention, rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has said. Read more about it here: https://bit.ly/2UeRkIY
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Mexicans have responded with outrage after a man was found beaten to death hours after he was arrested by police officers for not wearing a face mask in public. Anti-police protests erupted on Thursday in Guadalajara, the country’s second-largest city. https://bit.ly/2UeRcJu