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PEN America is a prestigious literary organization devoted to the freedom to write around the world. Their annual World Voices Festival brings together writers from around the world in… More

Sixty-five of the world's leading authors and artists have written a joint letter criticising Donald Trump's immigration ban and have urged him to reconsider it. The letter, which was organised… More

  A group of 60 authors, actors and musicians including Philip Roth, Margaret Atwood and Zadie Smith have signed a letter that calls on Donald Trump to rescind the executive order that… More

Sixty-five writers and artists have joined with the advocacy organization PEN America to send an open letter to President Trump, criticizing his executive order banning citizens from seven majority-Muslim… More

The PEN World Voices Festival, which for the past two years has highlighted geographic regions like Africa and Mexico, will shift its focus this year to gender and power in… More

George Orwell tops bestseller lists with a 68-year-old book. A Margaret Atwood novel is cited on Women's March protest signs. And when inflammatory, self-described troll and Donald Trump partisan… More

Stephen Sondheim will receive the 2017 PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award, PEN America announced on Wednesday. The organization, which advocates for freedom of literary expression worldwide, annually gives the… More

Stephen Sondheim is poised to receive the 2017 PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award this spring. Meryl Streep, who starred in the 2014 film adaptation of Sondheim's iconic musical Into the Woods, will present the prize to… More

A funny thing happened on the way to the Pen Literary Award (and the Nobel Prize for Literature). Just months after Bob (Zimmerman) Dylan became the surprise winner of the Nobel,… More

Legendary Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim will receive the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award at the 2017 PEN America Literary Gala on April 25 at the American Museum of Natural… More