Kikuko Tsumura on making masks work. Translated by Polly Barton.
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Steven Hall on thirteen years between novels, parent-children relationships, and full stops.
Read MoreNayrouz Qarmout writes about Edinburgh, Gaza, short stories, and packing her bag.
Read MoreMia Couto discusses colonialism, Covid-19 and silence.
Read MoreDanish writer Tine Høeg discusses line breaks, desire and and narrative puzzles.
Read MorePilar 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 MoreBangladeshi 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 MoreSo Mayer discusses fascism, cinema, genderqueerness and freedom of expression.
Read MoreRead 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 MorePriyamavada Gopal writes on her experience of online hatred, and calls for an end to a politics of hate.
Read MoreKavita Bhanot writes on mother-tongue shame, translating across generations, and decolonising translation.
Read MoreTsitsi Dangarembga, shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, writes on demonstrating, writing, and being arrested.
Read MoreArgentinian writer Selva Almada discusses femicide, violence in lockdown, and how to write historic trauma.
Read MoreA statement from Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Laureate and Chair of Belarusian PEN.
Read MoreKurdish writer Nurcan Baysal responds to a letter from Nedim Türfent.
Read MoreAlex Valente on translating fascism between Italy, the UK and the US.
Read MoreThe shortlisted translators of the 2020 International Booker Prize in conversation with Georgina Godwin.
Read MoreGuadeloupe’s Maryse Condé, winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize, talks about liberation, satire, and her hopes for the world.
Read MorePatrice Lawrence writes about her father, Windrush, and death.
Read MoreBarbadian speculative fiction writer Karen Lord writes before and after a storm.
Read MoreYvonne Battle-Felton on listening, fear, and home.
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