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BRONX:AFRICA Poetry Town Hall: with Rachel Ansong and Salieu Suso – PEN World Voices
Ghanaian-born Rachel Ansong, 2015 BRIO Award winner for poetry, will read from her award-winning work and will be joined by Gambian-born Salieu Suso, a musician/historian who will perform on… More
‘Hamilton’ and Lin-Manuel Miranda Among Pulitzer Prize Winners
“The Sympathizer” broke him into the mainstream in 2015 and appeared on many best of year end lists, as well as was shortlisted on the 2016 PEN/Robert W. Bingham… More
Who Is Viet Thanh Nguyen? The Pulitzer Prize Winner Is An Author & Professor
On Monday afternoon, the winners of the 2016 Pulitzer Prizes were announced, and Viet Thanh Nguyen, the author of The Sympathizer, took home the coveted Prize for Fiction. More
Roxane Gay to Give Arthur Miller Lecture at 2016 PEN World Voices Festival
In the lead-up to the PEN World Voices Festival, taking place in New York on April 25 - May 1, 2016, PEN America has announced that one of the… More
PEN Literary Awards to the 2016 election: ‘We need fewer walls and more book awards’
Poet Laureate of Brooklyn Tina Chang has a message for politicians: "We need fewer walls and more book awards." More
Morrison, Coates, Redniss Win 2016 PEN Awards
The ceremony was the first in which PEN America announced winners live. More
PEN Literary Award winners: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Mia Alvar, more
Ta-Nehisi Coates picked up another award for his best-selling, much-discussed book about race in America at the PEN Literary Awards on Monday evening in New York. More
Ta-Nehisi Coates Wins PEN Award for Essay Writing
National Book Award winner Ta-Nehisi Coates has received another honor, an essay award from PEN. More
Rencontrez l’écrivain Andreï Makine à New York
L’écrivain français, Andreï Makine, nommé le jeudi 3 mars dernier à l’Académie française, sera présent à New York pour trois évènements dans le cadre du festival PEN World Voices. More
Requiem for a Writer
Friends and family of the late Robert Bingham are remembering him this week More