pentransmissions
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For our series on exile with the British Museum and Edmund de Waal, Taqralik Partridge writes on Scotland, Canada, and language loss
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Three writers discuss language and power.
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Anthony Anaxagorou – poet, writer, publisher and educator – discusses spoken word after COVID-19, Cyprus, and poetry in the age of social media.
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To open our series with the British Museum and Edmund de Waal, Edmund speaks to us about his library of exile
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Can Bahadır Yüce writes on Turkey’s response to coronavirus, and calls for the release of at-risk political prisoners
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Ingrid Persaud discusses love, Trinidad, and home.
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Olivia Laing discusses the power of art in an emergency, the role of bad art, and our current weather.
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As part of our Digital Literary Salon, Irenosen Okojie speaks to Aki Schilz about bodies, musicality, and placing black women at the centre.
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As part of our Digital Literary Salon, Lavie Tidhar speaks to Robert Sharp about speculative fiction, cultural appropriation, and what we can – and should – write.
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As part of our Digital Literary Salon, Dean Atta speaks to Keith Jarrett about queer black British experience, schools, and writing for teens.
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Our editorial on the Digital English PEN Literary Salon – interviews with writers who were due to appear at the 2020 London Book Fair.
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Chen Quifan – also known as Stanley Chan – discusses Shanghai, speculative fiction, AI, and threats to humanity.
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South African writer Henrietta Rose-Innes writes on lockdown in Cape Town, and spider bites.
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Joshua Wong and Jason Y. Ng, authors of Unfree Speech, discuss free speech in Hong Kong, coronavirus, and the role of literature in campaigning for global democracy.
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Read about changes to PEN Transmissions during our current crisis.
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Lebanese writer and actress Dima Mikhayel Matta writes on quarantine, revolution, and being queer in Beirut.
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Sema Kaygusuz and Nicholas Glastonbury discuss shame, representation and the Turkish language.



