The PEN Pod: On the Importance of Hopeful Thinking and Magic with Chip Rolley
“Look at the program that we put together. Look at the writers who were there. Search out their books; their books can still be bought.” More
PEN America Cancels 2020 World Voices Festival: These Truths Due to COVID-19
We come to this conclusion with heavy hearts but the threat of COVID 19 is a truth we cannot deny and that makes this Festival, as planned, impossible. More
Chimamanda Adichie and Trevor Noah on Cultural Identities
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Trevor Noah discuss straddling multiple cultural identities in this clip from the 2017 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Monkey Business Spring 2016 Launch Event at Asia Society
Join a lively conversation between contemporary Japanese and American authors featured in the international literary journal, "Monkey Business." More
Salman Rushdie: las películas me enseñaron casi tanto como los libros
El escritor Salman Rushdie habló hoy de la influencia del cine en su infancia en Bombay (Índia) y dijo que las películas, que le enseñaron "casi tanto como los… More
Monkey Business: Japan/America Writers’ Dialogue
Join a lively conversation between contemporary Japanese and American authors featured in the international literary journal, "Monkey Business." In conjunction with the PEN World Voices Festival 2016. More
PEN World Voices festival: what can novelists do to help the refugee crisis?
Marlon James, Sunjeev Sahota, Laila Lalami and Maaza Mengiste discussed the subject of dislocation and how to ‘sit in the discomfort’ of refugees’ stories More
Above and Beyond — DIXON PLACE
As part of the PEN World Voices Festival, founded by Salman Rushdie and held since 2005, a group of acclaimed Mexican and Mexican-American authors and playwrights offer “Mexico in… More
PEN World Voices Festival Brings International Writers to New York City | BK Live
The PEN World Voices Festival is bringing writers from 30 countries to New York City for a week, starting April 25. Festival Director, Jakab Orsos, gives more details. More
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In this op-ed, the @Zimindependent denounces a raft of laws put in place by President Emmerson Mnangagwa (@edmnangagwa) to combat the spread of COVID-19 as “draconian, excessive and maybe unconstitutional.” https://bit.ly/2JHwgFg
The European Federation of Journalists (@EFJEUROPE) is calling on media in #Kosovo to refrain from “intensifying tensions” during the health crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. https://bit.ly/3dXAFC0
The ruling Chinese Communist Party has targeted thousands of people for speaking out about the coronavirus epidemic in the country since it began in late December in the central city of Wuhan, an overseas-based rights group has said. https://bit.ly/2XgnExs