pentransmissions
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One place can be many, many things. I’d like to convey an image of Singapore that deviates from Western-centric cultural explanation.
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Producing unusualness, writing expands our sense of what is possible. Imaginable. Livable. Publishing women authors is not a minor component in this process.
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The category of ‘woman writer’ can include anyone who covers gender-based oppression and violence from a position of lived experience, but only – and most importantly – if they want or need for the category to contain them.
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I continue to be haunted by a persistent feeling of being neither here nor there: a sense of emptiness people can only experience when they feel they are uprooted from their natural environment.
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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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