Iranian musician Mehdi Rajabian writes on his time in Evin Prison, and music as a form of resistance in the Middle East.
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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…
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With Care
Indonesian writer and artist Khairani Barokka writes on ableism in literature and translation.
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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.
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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.
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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.…
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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.
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