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April 30, 2011 | The Cooper Union | New York City At the Moth event during the 2011 PEN World Voices Festival, Jenny Allen tells a story on the theme… More

Lasha Bugadze (Georgia), Laila Soliman (Egypt), Mahmoud Dowlatabadi (Iran), and the Civilians (New York) have all tried to turn street-level protest into art. Did they succeed? Moderator Mike Daisey,… More

With Mona Eltahawy, Elias Khoury, and Rula Jebreal Over a year has passed since Egypt's initial uprising, but the country is still facing unstable times and an uncertain future. What… More

April 24, 2007 | Cooper Union's Great Hall | New York City Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Nigerian poet-dramatist, Wole Soyinka, writes: "Books and all forms of writing… More

Internationally celebrated authors talk with A.O. Scott of The New York Times: Martin Amis (The Pregnant Widow and the upcoming Lionel Asbo: The State of England), Margaret Atwood (The… More

With Arne Bellstorf, Ruth Franklin, Julya Rabinowich, and Lorin Stein; moderated by Eric Banks and Susan BernofskyWhen a translated work is under review, what exactly is being critiqued? Is… More

With Jamey Gambrell, Garry Kasparov, Vladmir Sorokin, and Fedor Svarovskiy; moderated by Christian Caryl Watch a World Champion chess player, now journalist, unravel the complexities of Russia's cultural and geopolitical… More

Remarks by Arnaud Nourry, Chairman & CEO of Hachette Livre, and Publisher Chair of the 2011 PEN Literary Gala and PEN World Voices Festival. More

With Jonathan Galassi and Joachim Sartorius; moderated by Rosanna Warren President of the venerable publishing house, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Jonathan Galassi goes head-to-head with the illustrious German-poet translator and… More

With Colum McCann, Philip Gourevitch, Norbert Gstrein, and Antje Rávic StrubelThe Nobel Prize for Literature has never been awarded to a nonfiction writer, although many literature laureates have devoted… More