The PEN Ten: An Interview with Tuhin Das
People assume that things get lost in translation, but translations give me literary freedom. Translations prove that words are not bound by any border or ideology or tyrant. More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Chinelo Okparanta
It’s a wonderful thing to learn the rules, and to learn them well. Only by learning them can you learn the clever ways to break them. More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with K-Ming Chang
I'm interested in the language serving itself, and reveling in the language and sound as their own form of meaning and beauty. More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Kelley Nicole Girod
Recording our lived experience is a declaration of our humanity in a world where many of us still aren’t seen as fully human. More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Gabriela Alemán
I think that that is what fiction does best, mine “accepted” truths. Bring to the forefront what is whispered about behind closed doors. More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Suchitra Vijayan
It's easy to retreat into despair, easier to forget. So now I write in anger, and I write not to surrender my rage. More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Leila Mottley
Stories expand our ideas of our world, or reflect back to us our place in it. More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Arinze Ifeakandu
It was clear to me how deeply I loved Nigeria, which made my anger and heartbreak at the dysfunction even more incandescent. More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Jay Hopler
Humor allowed me to occupy a perspective that reduced cancer to the butt of a joke. More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Ada Limón
"I want to be as free as anyone to write what they want to write and to be human in all those beautiful, necessary, and urgent ways." More