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Nothing Is Real, Everything Is Real: An Interview with Michelle Steinbeck and Jen Calleja
Michelle Steinbeck and Jen Calleja on fascism, femicide, and ghosts.
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Knowing Is a Kind of Pain: An Interview with Vaddey Ratner
Vaddey Ratner on memory, narrative history, and storytelling as a means of survival.
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Mariam Jallow on the folklore, fear, and storytelling.
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lisa minerva luxx on poetry, memory, and breathing.
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Simone Yasmin on the catharsis, and trauma, of performing poetry
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Our editorial on forthcoming work in PEN Transmissions.
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Liliana Corobca and Monica Cure on children, Moldova, and secrets.
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Ben Okri on climate crisis, the purpose of writing, and what we leave behind.
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Janika Oza on language and migration.
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Lilith Bardakçı on the history and evolution of Lubunca, the language spoken by the LGBTQ+ community in Turkey.
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Joseph Coelho on his poem marking Michael Rosen winning the 2023 PEN Pinter Prize
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Monica Ali’s PEN H.G. Wells Lecture
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By Gazan writer Nayrouz Qarmout, translated by Sawad Hussain and Perween Richards.
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Hanna Komar on visas, Belarus, and sunsets on Peckham Rye.
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Michael Rosen’s PEN Pinter Prize 2023 speech
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Zainab Akhlaqi, after leaving Afghanistan. Translated by Zubair Popalzai.
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Mahvash Sabet on how she got her poems out of Evin Prison with the bravery of the women of Iran
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Aissata Thiam, on five goodbyes.
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By Oleksandr Mykhed. Translated by Maryna Gibson.
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Baek Sehee and Anton Hur on mental health, collaboration and finding perspective.
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Aoko Matsuda and Polly Barton on prizes, patriarchy and politics.
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Ana Paula Maia on nausea, prose style, and cows. Translated by Carolina Orloff.
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