The editor of The Good Immigrant on the creation of the book and bringing change to the publishing industry.
Read MoreThe roar of the planes
A personal dispatch from author, activist and long time friend of English PEN, award-winning Faïza Guène, whose fiancé is at urgent risk of deportation from France.
Read MoreThe night before
The author of One Hundred Shadows on the Yongsan Disaster, the novel as a song and light that can emerge from darkness.
Read MoreNew Books in German at 20
Editor Charlotte Ryland and acting editor Jen Calleja discuss the last – and next – twenty years of the magazine.
Read MoreThe 2016 PEN Pinter International Writer of Courage Award speech
Bangladeshi publisher, writer and activist Tutul was chosen by 2016 PEN Pinter Prize winner Margaret Atwood as the recipient of the 2016 International Writer of Courage Award.
Read MoreThe 2016 PEN Pinter International Writer of Courage Award speech [in Bangla]
শুভ সন্ধ্যা। এখানে যারা উপস্থিত আছেন তাদের সবাইকে আমার আন্তরিক শুভেচ্ছা ও ভালবাসা। ধন্যবাদ পেনকে, বিশেষ করে ইংলিশ পেনকে। আমাকে এখানে আমন্ত্রণ জানিয়েছেন এবং কথা বলার সুযোগ দিয়েছেন বলে। আমি আন্তরিক ধন্যবাদ ও কৃতজ্ঞতা প্রকাশ করছি মার্গারিট উড এর প্রতি। মার্গারিট আজ তার এক অর্জনের সাথে আমাকে অংশীদার করে নিলেন। আমি খুব খুব আনন্দিত এবং…
Read MoreTranslators of the world, unite!
An emerging translator reports from the frontline of International Translation Day 2016 at the British Library.
Read MoreWhy Kahramana?
A contributor to forthcoming sci-fi anthology Iraq+100 (Comma Press) reveals the meaning behind the title and implication of their story.
Read MoreHow I wrote The Winterlings
The renowned Galician author muses on unusual strikes of inspiration and casts the writer as excavator of stories that already exist within.
Read MoreWrite, write, otherwise we are lost
The translator and activist reflects on the role of literature in a country in crisis, ahead of English PEN’s event ‘PEN Atlas presents: the View from Turkey’ on 19 September.
Read MoreThe hairy adolescent
An extract from In Other Words (Bloomsbury), the latest title from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri.
Read MoreL’adolescente peloso
An extract from In Other Words, the latest title from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri.
Read MoreL'adolescente peloso
An extract from In Other Words, the latest title from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri.
Read MorePEN Atlas Q&A: Hiromi Kawakami and Allison Markin Powell
The author and translator of The Nakano Thrift Shop chat to PEN Atlas about literary influences, food, the beauty of everyday life and the linguistic differences between Japanese and English.
Read MoreA year of reading adventurously
The founder of the English PEN Translated Literature Book Club reflects on its first year of discussions.
Read MoreThe labyrinth
The journalist and contributor to The Sorrows of Mexico reflects on the ‘three demons’ of narco-politics, censorship and corruption, and on the future of journalism in his country.
Read MoreThe voice of this body
The award-winning novelist discusses the challenges of writing ‘about’ a real person – as she has done in her latest book, inspired by legendary Olympian gymnast Nadia Comăneci.
Read MoreFinding a shared language
#RefugeesWelcome: poet and performer Simon Mole reflects on his experience of welcoming young people to the UK through the act of writing as part of English PEN’s multilingual outreach project Brave New Voices.
Read MoreTales
#RefugeesWelcome: the poet and teacher shares his motivations for creating the Refugee Tales project – a literary journey of solidarity with refugees, asylum seekers and detainees, modelled on Chaucer’s great poem of travel and storytelling.
Read MoreThe immigrant
#RefugeesWelcome: a short, powerful extract from the play The Immigrant, written and directed by Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor, which turns the story of asylum on its head to ask questions of us all.
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