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In the Unlimited Confines of My Creativity, I Was Free: Hannah Branston in Conversation with Ade Adedeji
Hannah Branston and Ade Adedeji on art and activism.
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Leaping Seasons
Hongyu Jasmine Zhu on precious memories with her mother.
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Five years on from the historic events of Tahrir Square, writer and psychiatrist Basma Abdel Aziz reflects on the many names of the Egyptian revolution, and her hopes for the future.
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Femi Martin, founder of Full Circle Projects, discusses the impact of creativity in her own life and in the lives of the people she works with.
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Sudanese-American poet Safia Elhillo shares two new poems and comments on the complex relationship between language, identity, family and the concept of home when living in the diaspora.
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The author and translator of A Flight Over the Black Sea (Waterloo Press) talk to PEN Atlas about working together, their inspirations and the power of poetry in times of war.
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PEN Centres from around the world share their top reads of 2015, and tell us what they will be campaigning on in 2016.
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PEN Centres from around the world share their top reads of 2015, and tell us what they will be campaigning on in 2016.
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Translator and writer Jethro Soutar reports from the 2015 Guadalajara International Book Fair, the biggest annual literary event in the Spanish-speaking world.
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To mark International Human Rights Day, a special PEN Atlas dispatch from the refugee camps at Calais by writers Dr. Olumide Popoola and Annie Holmes.
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To mark International Human Rights Day, a special PEN Atlas dispatch from the refugee camps at Calais by writers Dr. Olumide Popoola and Annie Holmes.
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Canadian journalist Ann Walmsley, author of The Prison Book Club, reports from the last stop on her UK book tour – an English PEN ‘Meet the Writer’ event at HMP Wandsworth.
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Good afternoon. I’d like to express my gratitude to Erica Jarnes [at English PEN] for giving me this opportunity to speak today, and to you all for listening. In the next half hour, I’ll touch on why I read, the different ways of reading, and how exactly books leave legacies inside us – and whether…
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The prolific Belgian writer talks to PEN atlas about the Parisian literary scene, a recurring character called Amélie Nothomb and her latest book – Petronille, published in English translation by Europa Editions.
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Eugene Vodolazkin writes on using the language of the past to construct new meaning for the present, and the medieval and postmodern influences for his new novel Laurus.
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The Feminist Press’s Lauren Hook sends a dispatch from Kraków’s annual Conrad Festival, reflecting particularly on the inspiring women writers she met there.
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Larry Siems, director of the Freedom to Write and International Programs at PEN American Center, makes an impassioned plea for the case of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, imprisoned at Guantánamo.
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Two years after the Euromaidan movement began, translator Steve Komarnyckyj speaks to prominent Ukrainian writers about free speech and the influence of the Kremlin in Kyiv.
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Two years after the Euromaidan movement began, translator Steve Komarnyckyj speaks to prominent Ukrainian writers about free speech and the influence of the Kremlin in Kyiv.
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Zimbabwean lawyer Petina Gappah, founder of The Orwell Project, reflects on revolutions, betrayals, and the universality of Orwell’s masterpiece.
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Zimbabwean lawyer Petina Gappah, founder of The Orwell Project, reflects on revolutions, betrayals, and the universality of Orwell’s masterpiece.
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Former child refugee Gulwali Passarlay shares his experience of stepping into a new life in the UK and discusses the publication of his memoir, The Lightless Sky.
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