Following recent events, PEN Atlas is running an additional dispatch this week from Turkey. Kaya Genç writes for us about Nâzım Hikmet Ran, whose poem ‘The Walnut Tree’ has taken on both a prophetic turn and an inspirational one in light of Gezi Park
Read MoreTaking a stand
Oray Egin reports on the continuing protests in Turkey, why they began in Gezi Park and what the writers of the country owe to those marching on the streets
Read MoreThe Tale of Two Adrians
Strange coincidences bring together two literary traditions in today’s PEN Atlas piece by Oksana Zabuzhko, which explores Ukrainian and Eastern European authors, their debt to history and their unjustly hidden classics
Read MoreTurning up the volume
Yasmine El Rashidi, contributor to the PEN-award-winning title Writing Revolution: The Voices from Tunis to Damascus, tells PEN Atlas about growing up learning English: exile and community, being alienated and finding her voice
Read MoreThe Mussel Feast
Birgit Vanderbeke introduces PEN Atlas readers to her book The Mussel Feast and her experience of penning such a controversial work at a poignant time in German history
Read MoreA Little Honey
This week’s PEN Atlas features a moving piece of writing by Jáchym Topol about a man and his ailing mother
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