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Co-written with Andrea C. Hoffmann, translated from German by Shaun Whiteside. The weather is bad as we stand outside Sherbrooke town hall. The rain is pouring down – as it does so often in my new home, Canada, which is in every respect the opposite of my old one. All my friends have come. It…
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Co-written with Andrea C. Hoffmann, translated from German by Shaun Whiteside. The weather is bad as we stand outside Sherbrooke town hall. The rain is pouring down – as it does so often in my new home, Canada, which is in every respect the opposite of my old one. All my friends have come. It…
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On 4 March 2016, Kitap Zamanı, the literary supplement of Turkey’s largest newspaper Zaman, was shut down by the government. Poet Can Bahadır Yüce reflects on the future of press freedom in Turkey.
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The award-winning writer and artist discusses her life-long relationship with literature and the politics of being a writer in China.
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To mark International Women’s Day 2016, the founder of #readwomen gives her top recommendations of women writers in translation.
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As the UK considers its place in the European Union ahead of a likely referendum in June, the German author sends a personal message.
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Ahead of his appearance at our first PEN Atlas event on 24 February, Bangladeshi journalist and editor Tasneem Khalil reflects on the death of Avijit Roy and other ‘prophets of freethought’.
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The publisher of brand-new imprint Point Blank makes the literary case for crime fiction, and explains how it might just open more eyes to the pleasures of reading in translation.
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Five years on from the historic events of Tahrir Square, writer and psychiatrist Basma Abdel Aziz reflects on the many names of the Egyptian revolution, and her hopes for the future.
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Femi Martin, founder of Full Circle Projects, discusses the impact of creativity in her own life and in the lives of the people she works with.
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Sudanese-American poet Safia Elhillo shares two new poems and comments on the complex relationship between language, identity, family and the concept of home when living in the diaspora.
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PEN Centres from around the world share their top reads of 2015, and tell us what they will be campaigning on in 2016.
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PEN Centres from around the world share their top reads of 2015, and tell us what they will be campaigning on in 2016.
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Translator and writer Jethro Soutar reports from the 2015 Guadalajara International Book Fair, the biggest annual literary event in the Spanish-speaking world.
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To mark International Human Rights Day, a special PEN Atlas dispatch from the refugee camps at Calais by writers Dr. Olumide Popoola and Annie Holmes.
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To mark International Human Rights Day, a special PEN Atlas dispatch from the refugee camps at Calais by writers Dr. Olumide Popoola and Annie Holmes.
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Canadian journalist Ann Walmsley, author of The Prison Book Club, reports from the last stop on her UK book tour – an English PEN ‘Meet the Writer’ event at HMP Wandsworth.
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Good afternoon. I’d like to express my gratitude to Erica Jarnes [at English PEN] for giving me this opportunity to speak today, and to you all for listening. In the next half hour, I’ll touch on why I read, the different ways of reading, and how exactly books leave legacies inside us – and whether…
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The prolific Belgian writer talks to PEN atlas about the Parisian literary scene, a recurring character called Amélie Nothomb and her latest book – Petronille, published in English translation by Europa Editions.
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