Press Releases
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Book Groups Launch New Effort to Amend Patriot Act
Organizations representing booksellers, librarians, publishers, and writers today launched the latest phase in their five-year campaign to restore the reader privacy safeguards that were stripped away by the USA… More
PEN Applauds House Passage of Free Flow of Information Act
The House of Representatives yesterday passed the 2009 Free Flow of Information Act by voice vote, taking a firm step towards federally protecting journalists who refuse to reveal their… More
Beijing Writer, PEN VP Jiang Qisheng Detained for Charter 08
Independent Chinese PEN Center Vice President Dr. Jiang Qisheng was detained and interrogated by police in Beijing today in what PEN American Center and the Independent Chinese PEN Center… More
The Fifth Annual PEN World Voices Festival of Interational Literature
Salman Rushdie and PEN American Center today announce the program for the Fifth Annual World PEN Voices Festival of International Literature taking place this year Monday, April 27… More
PEN Presses for End to Ideological Exclusion
One week before an Appeals Court hears its challenge to the exclusion of Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan from the U.S., PEN joined 59 other organizations in sending a letter… More
PEN Election Results: Kwame Anthony Appiah Named President
New York, NY, March 19, 2009—PEN American Center, the 3400-member association of literary writers, editors, and translators, announced yesterday the election of Kwame Anthony Appiah, the acclaimed scholar, author,… More
Writers Decry Detentions During Clinton Visit to China
Writers reacted angrily to reports that members of the Independent Chinese PEN Center and other leading Chinese intellectuals have been confined to their homes or had their movements and… More
PEN Executive Director to Step Down on June 30
Executive Director Michael Roberts announced today in a letter to the PEN membership that he would conclude his service as Executive Director at the end of the current program… More
Writer Tohti Tunyaz Released From Prison in China a Week Before Clinton Visit
PEN American Center expressed relief today at the news that imprisoned writer, historian, and winner of the 2002 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award, Tohti Tunyaz, was released from… More
PEN American Center Wins NBCC Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award
The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) today announced PEN American Center as the recipient of its prestigious Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award. With past winners including Studs Terkel, Richard… More
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