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Jack Livings Wins PEN Prize for Debut Fiction
Jack Livings won the $25,000 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction on Monday night, for “The Dog,” a collection of stories set in China, where Mr. Livings lived… More
Tiananmen and the Chinese Way of Censorship
Chinese censorship is not some bureaucratic dinosaur left over from the nation’s Leninist past. More
China’s Publishers Court America as Its Authors Scorn Censorship
A few years ago, the Chinese writer Murong Xuecun had the kind of career most novelists dream about. His eight books had sold two million copies in China, and… More
American, Chinese authors protest major book fair, censorship with shadow expo in New York
Chinese and American authors gathered Wednesday to protest a major U.S. book fair's focus on China that they say ignores the country's glaring problems of censorship and intimidation. More
What U.S. Publishers Owe China
In 1962, Chinese President Liu Shaoqi warned Mao Zedong: “History will record the role you and I played in the starvation of so many people, and the cannibalization will… More
Publishing world gathers this week for book conventions
PEN American Center, the literary and human rights organization, is planning two off-site events to protest China's history of censorship and suppression of writers. One protest will feature three… More
US Group: Foreign Authors Censored in China Without Knowing
A U.S.-based advocacy group is warning Western authors to be vigilant of censorship of their work in China's fast-growing book publishing industry, which is sometimes done without their knowledge. More
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Liu Xiaobo Is Locked Up in China, and Locked Out of the Translation of a Paul Auster Novel
The works of the New York writer Paul Auster often hinge on ominous disappearances, and his novel “Sunset Park” has passages about the secretive detention of the Chinese dissident-writer… More
The Search for the Literary Tribe, By Adewale Ajadi
I wondered, when I was invited by PEN America to be part of the group of African writers at their World Voices 2015 Festival in New York, whether I… More
PEN Announces Literary Award Winners
This morning, PEN American Center announced the winners of the 2015 PEN Literary Awards. The annual awards, which total more than $150,000, honor emerging and established writers in seventeen… More
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