Audio + Video
Nuruddin Farah Reads from Maps; Links
Nuruddin Farah reads from his novels Maps and Links at the PEN event Africa and the World: The Writer's Role, part of the 2005 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Mónica de la Torre and Edward Hirsch Read César Vallejo
Mónica de la Torre and Edward Hirsch read "The Black Heralds", "The Black Heralds" and "Agape" by César Vallejo (in Spanish and English) at A Tribute to César Vallejo,… More
Zakes Mda Reads from The Whale Caller
Zakes Mda reads from his novel The Whale Caller at the PEN event Africa and the World: The Writer's Role, part of the 2005 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Pedro Rosa Mendes Reads from The Bay of Tigers
Pedro Rosa Mendes reads from The Bay of Tigers at the PEN event Africa and the World: The Writer's Role, part of the 2005 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Uwe Timm Delivers a Talk
Uwe Timm delivers a talk at the PEN event Africa and the World: The Writer's Role, part of the 2005 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Svetlana Alexievich Discusses Why She Writes About Human Tragedies
Svetlana Alexievich discusses why she writes about human tragedies and her unique form of reportage at Confronting the Worst: Writing & Catastrophe, part of the 2005 PEN World Voices… More
The Writer’s Conscience: Remembering Anna Politkovskaya & Russia?s Forgotten War
PEN American Center, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and the Center for the Humanities, the Graduate Center, CUNY, present an evening of readings from Anna Politkovskaya's work and a… More
Literature of Color: Myth or Reality?
Discussed: literature of color as both myth and reality; personal experience vs. universal truth; the politics of book covers; the insult and the compromise; the racial geography of the… More
A Tribute to Chinua Achebe: Entire Event
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of his seminal novel Things Fall Apart, PEN hosted a major tribute to Nigerian writer and literary luminary Chinua Achebe, with Chinua Achebe,… More
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