• Leaping Seasons

    Leaping Seasons

    Hongyu Jasmine Zhu on precious memories with her mother.

  • New frontiers for translated fiction

    Jonathan Ruppin writes for PEN Atlas about the shortlist for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, what it can tell us about the context of translated fiction in the present and which names to keep an eye out for in the future

  • The Silk Road

    In the run-up to London Book Fair 2013, for which Turkey is the market focus, Murathan Mungan writes for PEN Atlas about how East and West view each other, what Henry James could have learnt from Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil and the building of a new Tower of Babel

  • What is Official? Turkish writing, from state discourse to civil literature

    As part of our ongoing series of PEN Atlas dispatches from Turkey, Kaya Genç describes the struggle for the soul of his country’s literature between state officials and independent creative writers

  • PEN Atlas Q&A – Gerbrand Bakker, author of The Detour

    PEN Atlas Editor, Tasja Dorkofikis talks to Gerbrand Bakker about his novel, The Detour, Wales, and translating Emily Dickinson

  • PEN Atlas Q&A – Gerbrand Bakker, author of The Detour

    PEN Atlas Editor, Tasja Dorkofikis talks to Gerbrand Bakker about his novel, The Detour, Wales, and translating Emily Dickinson

  • Literature rises in the East

    Ayfer Tunç writes for PEN Atlas ab0ut the importance of looking past the clichés so that Turkish literature is seen in the context of World Literature. This is the first in a series of reports from Turkey, a focus both for London Book Fair, and for English PEN.

  • بالدم تُكتب ثقافة سوريا الجديدة

     لا يمكن الحديث عن الثقافة السورية دون الحديث عن دور الثورة السورية التي قامت بهدم البنية القديمة لهذه الثقافة، وبداية إنتاج قيم جديدة لثقافة سورية جديدة تنتظر نهاية المرحلة الدموية من الثورة لتبدأ بالاستقرار، وهذه القيم الجديدة متنوعة ويجري اختبارها كل يوم. رغم الدماء وقوافل الشهداء وتدمير المدن من قبل النظام بصواريخ السكود والطائرات الحربية…

  • Written in blood: The beginnings of a new Syrian society

    In a moving piece for PEN Atlas, Khaled Khalifa writes about the hypocrisy of the intelligentsia, the context of the Syrian revolution, and the task of imagining the world that will come after.

  • No offence meant

    Award-winning translator Antonia Lloyd-Jones experiences extreme public reactions to the latest crime novel she has translated on a recent trip to Poland…

  • PEN Atlas – Editor’s Round Up February 2013

    PEN Atlas editor Tasja Dorkofikis reviews the first few months of 2013 for the Atlas; offering up a few personal highlights so far and drawing our attention to upcoming translation Prizes and literary events and festivals.

  • PEN Atlas – Editor's Round Up February 2013

    PEN Atlas editor Tasja Dorkofikis reviews the first few months of 2013 for the Atlas; offering up a few personal highlights so far and drawing our attention to upcoming translation Prizes and literary events and festivals.

  • Ghentish Talent – Graphic Novels from Flanders

    Michele Hutchison takes us on a far-ranging tour of the European comics scene, with a focus on the beautiful, moving and innovative graphic novels coming out of Belgium

  • Tadeusz Różewicz and The Struggle for Poetry

    For PEN Atlas this week, Basia Howard writes about Tadeusz Różewicz, Poland’s most translated writer. His memoir Mother Departs, published by Stork Press in March, describes the war he survived and that forged his poetic conscience

  • Past Events Disperse like Smoke

    Gregor Benton looks at revolution, resistance and the Beijing University literature class that harboured three of China’s best-known intellectual and political adversaries

  • PEN Atlas – Entrevista con Alejandro Zambra sobre Formas de Volver a Casa

    Tasja Dorkofikis habla con Alejandro Zambra sobre Formas de Volver a Casa

  • PEN Atlas Q&A – Alejandro Zambra, author of Ways of Going Home

    PEN Atlas editor Tasja Dorkofikis talks to Alejandro Zambra about his new novel, the responsibility of memory and the nation of Chile being in a period of convalescence

  • PEN Atlas Q&A – Alejandro Zambra, author of Ways of Going Home

    PEN Atlas editor Tasja Dorkofikis talks to Alejandro Zambra about his new novel, the responsibility of memory and the nation of Chile being in a period of convalescence

  • Jeet Thayil reports from the Jaipur Literature Festival

    Fresh from winning the 2013 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, Jeet Thayil writes about his experience returning to the Jaipur Literature Festival following the dramatic events of last year

  • Publishers’ highlights in 2013: part 2

    In part 2 of our Publishers’ Highlights for PEN Atlas, we find out about Japanese crime fiction from Little Brown, Balkan stories from Istros Books, Iranian memoirs from Oneworld Publications, and many more

  • Publishers' highlights in 2013: part 2

    In part 2 of our Publishers’ Highlights for PEN Atlas, we find out about Japanese crime fiction from Little Brown, Balkan stories from Istros Books, Iranian memoirs from Oneworld Publications, and many more