PEN Transmissions

September 18, 2020September 18, 2020

When an Hour Stretched into A Day

Tsitsi Dangarembga, shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, writes on demonstrating, writing, and being arrested.

September 15, 2020

On the Other Side of the Door that Leads to Hell: An Interview with Selva Almada

Argentinian writer Selva Almada discusses femicide, violence in lockdown, and how to write historic trauma.

September 9, 2020

Another Unknown Person Ringing at My Door: A Statement from Svetlana Alexievich

A statement from Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Laureate and Chair of Belarusian PEN.

May 17, 2018January 22, 2020

On the move: a conversation with Olga Tokarczuk

The concept of a ‘nation’ doesn’t have the power to describe the contemporary identity of people living in the world. We should look for other ideas to describe us as a collective, as a group, as a society.

August 18, 2020September 1, 2020

The Words We Choose: A Roundtable with the International Booker Prize Shortlisted Translators

The shortlisted translators of the 2020 International Booker Prize in conversation with Georgina Godwin.

September 1, 2020September 17, 2020

Hope in a Bottle of Honey

Kurdish writer Nurcan Baysal responds to a letter from Nedim Türfent.

August 25, 2020September 17, 2020

Translating Fascisms

Alex Valente on translating fascism between Italy, the UK and the US.

August 11, 2020September 1, 2020

When I Stop Writing, I Stop Living: An Interview with Maryse Condé

Guadeloupe’s Maryse Condé, winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize, talks about liberation, satire, and her hopes for the world.

August 4, 2020September 1, 2020

Black Deaths Matter: About My Father

Patrice Lawrence writes about her father, Windrush, and death.

July 28, 2020August 25, 2020

Storms

Barbadian speculative fiction writer Karen Lord writes before and after a storm.