PEN Transmissions

November 26, 2019November 26, 2019

Always Against the Idols: A Conversation with Chus Pato and Erín Moure

Galician poet Chus Pato and Canadian poet and translator Erín Moure discuss collaboration, Francoism, language rights and iconoclasm. PEN Transmissions is English PEN’s magazine for international and translated voices. PEN’s members are the backbone of our work, helping us to support international literature, campaign for writers at risk, and advocate for the freedom to write…

November 12, 2019November 12, 2019

With Care

Indonesian writer and artist Khairani Barokka writes on ableism in literature and translation.

October 30, 2019November 12, 2019

Out of the Ashes

The last in our series with Granta magazine on writers and their translators, Geovani Martins writes new short fiction, and Julia Sanches writes on translating it.

October 22, 2019October 30, 2019

Connecting Worlds, Inventing Worlds

The second in our series with Granta on writers and their translators, José Eduardo Agualusa and Daniel Hahn share an embrace.

October 8, 2019

Editorial: PEN Transmissions x Granta

In a PEN Transmissions interview from July 2019, Kapka Kassabova says that ‘good art by its very nature crosses all borders’. Today, in October, the need for such ‘good art’ is acute. And it’s not just national, physical borders that we traverse: literature moves us across personal, communal, and linguistic borders in particular, vital ways.…

October 8, 2019November 12, 2019

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

The first in our series with Granta on writers and their translators, Peter Stamm pens new short fiction and Michael Hofmann writes on translating Stamm.

September 24, 2019October 30, 2019

What We Have to Build Next

Tanaka Mhishi discusses appearing on a BBC documentary as a male survivor of rape, and what writers can do to tackle sexual harm.

September 10, 2019October 30, 2019

All These Write, Not I Alone: A Conversation with Vikram Kolmannskog

A year after the decriminalisation of gay sex in India, we speak to Norwegian-Indian writer Vikram Kolmannskog about writing self, place and queerness.

August 27, 2019October 23, 2019

Against the Current: An Interview with Gwen Davies

Welsh-English translator and editor of New Welsh Review, Gwen Davies, speaks to us about indigeneity, place, migration and translating contemporary Wales.

August 20, 2019September 24, 2019

Turkey’s Endless War on Books

Can Bahadır Yüce writes on self-censorship and the destruction on books in Turkey.

August 12, 2019September 24, 2019

Queer x Kenyan x Communities

Cherrie Kandie talks about the aftermath of being shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing for ‘Sew My Mouth’, a story about a lesbian couple in Kenya.

August 5, 2019August 27, 2019

Editorial: Transmitting the Future

Over its last twelve issues, PEN Transmissions has conveyed 35 essays and interviews to readers in over 120 countries. From this month, we will be publishing pieces every other week.