Every Word Contains the World

In her introduction to Friday night’s festival-opening event, Caro Llewellyn, Director of PEN World Voices: The New York Festival of International Literature, feted the festival’s fifth birthday with… More

The Mighty Pen

From graphic novelists Neil Gaiman and Adrian Tomine, to downtown icons Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson, to literary stars Edwidge Danticat and Colm Toibin, to Hollywood star/Columbia MFA fic More

Le Clézio Comes to New York

The French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio will appear at the 92nd St Y on April 24 in his first public New York event since winning the Nobel Prize… More

Other Voices, Other Worlds

The lineup for this year’s PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature was announced today at an event held in the beautiful courtyard of the Instituto Cervantes in New… More

Rushdie, Krugman featured at PEN festival

Salman Rushdie, Neil Gaiman and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman will be among the authors featured at this spring's PEN World Voices Festival, the writers organization announced Wednesday. More