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#RefugeesWelcome: writer and former child refugee Yovanka Perdigao retraces her own journey from Guinea-Bissau to London via Dakar and Lisbon, finding solace and empowerment throughout her journey in her love of literature.
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The creative producer for the European Literature Festival shares his highlights of 2016, and considers the importance of European stories in Britain after Brexit.
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The Polish–English literary translator reflects on the UK’s EU membership referendum – its tone and its aftermath – and considers the role of literary translators in this brave new world.
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Journalist Anjan Sundaram talks to English PEN’s Robert Sharp about his latest book, Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship
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Galician poet, writer and journalist Manuel Rivas recalls stories from his childhood under Franco’s rule. His latest novel, The Low Voices (Harvill Secker), is published this month.
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The acclaimed novelist talks to PEN Atlas about history, collective memory and place – the big themes of his latest book, Before the Feast (Pushkin Press).
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On the day of #EURef in the UK, award-winning French-Algerian author Faïza Guène highlights the importance of citizen journalism in imagining and understanding Europe.
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As PEN Atlas considers the theme of Europe ahead of the UK’s EU membership referendum on 23 June, novelist and essayist Janne Teller reflects on her multiple identities as a writer.
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The Managing Editor of Pan-African writers’ collective Jalada Africa reflects on the significance of translation into and between African languages after publishing 30 translations of a story by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o.
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The author of Panty, published in English translation this month by Tilted Axis Press, describes how the limits placed on writing by South Asian women impelled her into surrealism, sexual politics, and the creation of new forms.
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An exclusive extract from Second-Hand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich.
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Asia Literary Review managing editor Phillip Kim talks to South Korean authors Cheon Myeong-kwan and Han Yujoo about the rising profile of K-Lit, Korean pop-culture and themes in their work.
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The author of A General Theory of Oblivion talks to PEN Atlas about his reclusive main character, the city of Luanda, living through troubled times, and the value of being translated.
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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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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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The award-winning writer and folklorist reflects on the comfort and power of family stories.
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As translators and publishers from around the world gather for the 2016 London Book Fair, Writers in Translation programme manager Erica Jarnes reflects on the theme of ‘reputation’ with respect to non-Anglophone writers.
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The Co-Chairs of York Student PEN explore the controversial NUS ‘No-platform’ policy, and the wider implications for freedom of speech in UK universities.
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A short story by Ellen Wiles about a writer from Myanmar reflecting on her country’s new transition, based on several true accounts of Burmese writers’ lives under censorship and beyond.
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