Category Archives: PEN International News

Recommended Reading: Poetry in Translation

PUBLISHED ON JUNE 16, 2014

Over the next month, PEN will be highlighting titles that have been longlisted for the 2014 PEN Literary Awards as a helpful guide for your summer reading. Continue reading

‘Every hour a glass of wine’ – the female writers who drank

The long list of male alcoholic authors is well known, but what about their literary sisters? Continue reading

PEN Alarmed by Reports of Secret Trial and Conviction in Tohti Case

Literary and Human Rights Group Maintains Uyghur Writer’s Innocence

PEN American Center is deeply troubled by reports that jailed Uyghur scholar and 2014 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award winner Ilham Tohti has been sentenced to a “heavy” jail term in a secret trial in China. Continue reading

PEN Atlas Q&A – Juan Gabriel Vásquez, author of The Sound of Things Falling

Posted November 29th, 2012 by Tasja Dorkofikis & filed under Pen Atlas.
PEN Atlas editor Tasja Dorkofikis talks to critically acclaimed writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez, author of English PEN Award winning title The Sound of Things Falling, translated by Anne McLean. Vásquez visted the UK Continue reading

Renewed call for release of jailed Bahraini journalists

9 June 2014

Renewed call for release of jailed Bahraini journalists before Human Rights Council’s 26th Session

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Join PEN at the London Short Story Festival

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Fri 20 June- Sun 22 June
Waterstones Piccadilly
203-206 Piccadilly, London W1J 9HD Continue reading

Remember Writers at Risk this World Book Night

Posted April 15th, 2014 by Cat Lucas & filed under Campaigns.


On 23 April, English PEN will be joining thousands of others in giving away books as part of this year’s World Book Night celebrations. Our Writers at Risk Programme Manager Cat Lucas explains why. Continue reading

Five Poems by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs

By: LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs

PUBLISHED ON MAY 28, 2014

This week in the PEN Poetry Series, guest editor Cathy Park Hong features five new poems by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs. About Diggs’s work, Hong writes: “LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs’s poetry is a tense coil of enraptured, disco-cursive, code-switching lines. New York City Continue reading