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This being the Year of Publishing Women, we are dedicating our first issue to women’s writing, bringing together voices from Mexico, Argentina, Singapore, and the UK.
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Welcome to PEN Transmissions! We are a new online zine dedicated to international writing.
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This is how my imagination works, I suppose: mysteriously, the process of writing always begins with a place.
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You become an estranged human being, which leads to a certain kind of solitude and loneliness.
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‘Even if you’re 75 years old and haven’t left the city you’ve grown up in, you have migrated through time. To me, it feels like the theme of being human is being a migrant.’
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An extract from In Other Words, the latest title from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri.
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Today, on World Press Freedom Day, the director of PEN Eritrea in Exile shares his experience of life as a journalist in Eritrea.
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Co-written with Andrea C. Hoffmann, translated from German by Shaun Whiteside. The weather is bad as we stand outside Sherbrooke town hall. The rain is pouring down – as it does so often in my new home, Canada, which is in every respect the opposite of my old one. All my friends have come. It…
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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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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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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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Marc Owen Jones, co-editor of a new book exploring the personal stories behind the Arab Spring’s ‘forgotten front’, shares his experiences of Bahrain as a child growing up and now.
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Acclaimed journalist and activist Lydia Cacho responds to the murder of the Mexican photojournalist Rubén Espinosa.
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Peter Idling writes for PEN Atlas on the man who would be Pol Pot, the darker side of human nature and what drives people to destruction
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Pergentino José Ruiz on the importance of Mexico’s indigenous languages and oral culture
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Yuri Herrera on impunity and corruption in Mexico, and the careful word choices of President Enrique Peña Nieto
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S J Naudé writes about the experience of translating your own short story collection
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Writers and PEN members all over the world have been supporting the struggle of the parents of the disappeared Mexican students to discover the truth about their children. On 30 November, on my way to the Feria Internacional del Libro [FIL], I attended a press conference in Mexico City. Speakers included relatives of the 6…
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