This week, over 200 delegates and PEN members have gathered in Bishkek for the 80th PEN International Congress. Follow PEN’s photo blog for updates. For more information click here.
Writers from 80 PEN Centres from across the globe gather in Bishkek for the annual PEN International Congress
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović ddelivering her keynote speech at the 80th PEN Congress in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
PEN International President John Ralston Saul introducing OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović on the cogress in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Russian-American journalist and writer Masha Gessen and Ukranian novelist Andrei Kurkov on Violence and Propaganda at the 80th PEN International Congress in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Chaired by Finnish journalist, Anna-Lena Laurén.
Russian-American journalist and writer Masha Gessen, Chair of the Writers in Prison Committee, Marian Botsford Fraser, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, President of PEN South Africa, Margie Orford and Executive Director of English PEN Jo Glanville, discussing criminal defamation at the 80th PEN International Congress in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
The wife of imprisoned writer Azimzhan Askarov, Hadicha Askarova, appealling on her husband’s behalf to PEN at Congress.