PUBLISHED ON JULY 21, 2014
The PEN Ten is PEN America’s biweekly interview series curated by Lauren Cerand. This week Lauren talks with Michael F. Moore, the chair of the PEN/Heim Translation Fund and an interpreter/translator from Italian. Continue reading
The PEN Ten with Michael F. Moore已关闭评论
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Posted July 21st, 2014 by English PEN staff & filed under Campaigns.
English PEN was saddened to learn of the death of our former president Josephine Pullein-Thompson Continue reading
Memories from PEN, a tribute to Josephine Pullein-Thompson已关闭评论
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17 July 2014 RAN
Five journalists with the Unity weekly journal, arrested in January and February 2014, were each sentenced to 10 years in prison with hard labour on 10 July 2014 over a report about an Continue reading
MYANMAR: Five journalists sentenced to 10 years in prison; 50 others face charges for a peaceful protest已关闭评论
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gordimer600spanby Margie Orford, President of South African PEN
Nadine Gordimer was a passionately cerebral writer, and her death confirms the passing Continue reading
Nadine Gordimer: A pen guided by a moral compass to the end已关闭评论
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July 20 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm | £8/£4
Poets from around the globe share their views and personal experiences as part of the Poetry International Festival at London’s Southbank Centre. Continue reading
Literary Activism: is poetry the strongest form of protest?已关闭评论
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Tagged English PEN, Literary Activism, Poetry, Poetry International Festival
Six members of blogging group Zone 9 and three other journalists could could face terrorism charges in one of the world’s deadliest countries for journalists
By Milana Knezevic / 11 July, 2014
(Photo: Zone 9/Facebook)
“We blog because we care!” This is the slogan and rallying cry of Zone 9, a group of young Ethiopians Continue reading
Ethiopia: Young bloggers jailed for over two months without charge已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Internet Freedom, PEN International News
PUBLISHED ON JULY 10, 2014
PEN American Center strongly protests the sentencing of an editor and four journalists in Myanmar to 10 years in prison. The journalists, from the newspaper Unity, Continue reading
Journalists Sentenced to 10 Years in Myanmar已关闭评论
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Tagged Journalists, Myanmar, PEN American
Posted July 7th, 2014 by Emma Cleave & filed under Translation.
English PEN is proud to support award-winning Iraqi author Hassan Blasim’s anthology of short stories Iraq + 100. The collection asks ten contemporary Iraqi writers to reflect on what their home city might Continue reading
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2014 winner Hassan Blasim receives PEN award已关闭评论
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