pentransmissions
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Mia Couto discusses colonialism, Covid-19 and silence.
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Danish writer Tine Høeg discusses line breaks, desire and and narrative puzzles.
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Pilar Quintana and Lisa Dillman, author and translator of PEN Translates award-winning The Bitch, are interviewed by the English PEN Membership from their homes in Colombia and the USA.
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Bangladeshi publisher Tutul – with whom Margaret Atwood shared her 2016 PEN Pinter Prize – discusses exile, free thinking, and thirty years of the magazine and publisher Shuddhashar.
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So Mayer discusses fascism, cinema, genderqueerness and freedom of expression.
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Read Jay Bernard’s ‘England Street (Reggae fi Linton)’, commissioned to celebrate Linton Kwesi Johnson winning the 2020 PEN Pinter Prize. Featuring a specially commissioned introduction to the poem from Jay.
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Priyamavada Gopal writes on her experience of online hatred, and calls for an end to a politics of hate.
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Kavita Bhanot writes on mother-tongue shame, translating across generations, and decolonising translation.
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Tsitsi Dangarembga, shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, writes on demonstrating, writing, and being arrested.
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Argentinian writer Selva Almada discusses femicide, violence in lockdown, and how to write historic trauma.
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A statement from Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Laureate and Chair of Belarusian PEN.
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Kurdish writer Nurcan Baysal responds to a letter from Nedim Türfent.
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Alex Valente on translating fascism between Italy, the UK and the US.
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The shortlisted translators of the 2020 International Booker Prize in conversation with Georgina Godwin.
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Guadeloupe’s Maryse Condé, winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize, talks about liberation, satire, and her hopes for the world.
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Patrice Lawrence writes about her father, Windrush, and death.
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Barbadian speculative fiction writer Karen Lord writes before and after a storm.
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Yvonne Battle-Felton on listening, fear, and home.
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Dzifa Benson writes on contemporary and historical perceptions of black women’s bodies
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