Skip to content
PEN Transmissions

PEN Transmissions

a home for international writers

  • ABOUT
  • ESSAYS
  • INTERVIEWS
  • SERIES
    • British Museum x Edmund de Waal
    • Granta magazine
    • Digital Literary Salon [LONDON BOOK FAIR]
  • EDITORIALS
  • ARCHIVE
Press Enter / Return to begin your search.
personal essaysMarch 2, 2021

Working Masks

Kikuko Tsumura on making masks work. Translated by Polly Barton.

Read More
personal essaysFebruary 26, 2021

Memories of the Fires

El Salvador’s Claudia Hernández on war, women, and burning. Translated by Julia Sanches.

Read More
interviewsFebruary 16, 2021

Lest Writers Become Accountants: An Interview with Mauro Javier Cárdenas

Ecuadorean Mauro Javier Cárdenas discusses radical grammar, Spanish, and US politics.

Read More
personal essaysFebruary 9, 2021

For Uncle Milton

Robert Jones, Jr. on discovering he was not the only Black, queer member of his family.

Read More
hope after crisisMay 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.

Read More
interviewsFebruary 2, 2021February 16, 2021

A Conversation with Andrew Black: A Conversation with Steven Hall

Steven Hall on thirteen years between novels, parent-children relationships, and full stops.

Read More
personal essaysDecember 22, 2020January 28, 2021

For the Stories, or for the Visa Delays?

Nayrouz Qarmout writes about Edinburgh, Gaza, short stories, and packing her bag.

Read More
interviewsDecember 9, 2020February 9, 2021

A Broken Story: A Conversation with Mia Couto

Mia Couto discusses colonialism, Covid-19 and silence.

Read More
interviewsDecember 3, 2020January 27, 2021

Breaking Lines: An Interview with Tine Høeg

Danish writer Tine Høeg discusses line breaks, desire and and narrative puzzles.

Read More
interviewsNovember 20, 2020January 27, 2021

On the Pacific Coast: The English PEN Membership Interview Pilar Quintana and Lisa Dillman

Pilar Quintana and Lisa Dillman, author and translator of PEN Translates award-winning The Bitch, are interviewed by the English PEN Membership from their homes in Colombia and the USA.

Read More
interviewsNovember 10, 2020December 3, 2020

Shuddhashar at 30: An Interview with Tutul

Bangladeshi publisher Tutul – with whom Margaret Atwood shared her 2016 PEN Pinter Prize – discusses exile, free thinking, and thirty years of the magazine and publisher Shuddhashar.

Read More
interviewsOctober 29, 2020December 3, 2020

Already Bedfellows: A Long Interview with So Mayer

So Mayer discusses fascism, cinema, genderqueerness and freedom of expression.

Read More
personal essays poetryOctober 20, 2020November 12, 2020

Why I Wrote ‘England Street’

Read Jay Bernard’s ‘England Street (Reggae fi Linton)’, commissioned to celebrate Linton Kwesi Johnson winning the 2020 PEN Pinter Prize. Featuring a specially commissioned introduction to the poem from Jay.

Read More
personal essaysOctober 13, 2020January 1, 2021

A Dossier of Hate

Priyamavada Gopal writes on her experience of online hatred, and calls for an end to a politics of hate.

Read More
personal essaysOctober 7, 2020November 12, 2020

Translating Every Day: The Importance and Impossibility of Decolonising Translation

Kavita Bhanot writes on mother-tongue shame, translating across generations, and decolonising translation.

Read More
personal essaysSeptember 18, 2020October 19, 2020

When an Hour Stretched into A Day

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

Read More
interviewsSeptember 15, 2020October 19, 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.

Read More
personal essaysSeptember 9, 2020January 1, 2021

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

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

Read More
personal essaysSeptember 1, 2020September 17, 2020

Hope in a Bottle of Honey

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

Read More
personal essaysAugust 25, 2020September 17, 2020

Translating Fascisms

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

Read More
interviewsAugust 18, 2020October 19, 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.

Read More
interviewsAugust 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.

Read More
personal essaysAugust 4, 2020September 1, 2020

Black Deaths Matter: About My Father

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

Read More
personal essaysJuly 28, 2020August 25, 2020

Storms

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

Read More
personal essaysJuly 21, 2020August 25, 2020

Some Place to Call Home

Yvonne Battle-Felton on listening, fear, and home.

Read More

Page navigation

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • …
  • 23
  • Next
  • ABOUT
  • CONTACT
  • SUBSCRIBE
Website Built with WordPress.com.
Cancel

 
Loading Comments...
Comment
    ×