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Russian writer Kirill Medvedev discusses intellectual property, the concept of the common good and his vision for the future of ideas.
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Dorothy Tse investigates the role of literature in Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Umbrella Movement, and asks what the future of Hong Kong literature is.
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A PEN Atlas Q&A with Etgar Keret, who is in the UK promoting his PEN-supported essay collection The Seven Good Years.
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Translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor. I have never seen any difference between personal experience and fiction. We never invent as much as when we are recounting what has happened to us. What is ‘lived experience’ if not debatable traces, fantasies, false memories, lacunae we fill with realism or fables? Strictly speaking, my project…
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Benjamin Paloff sheds light on the life and work of Richard Weiner (1884–1937), widely considered to be one of the most important Czech writers of the 20th century even though his writing was suppressed until 1989.
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Investigative reporter Roberto Saviano discusses his latest book Zero Zero Zero, the global cocaine trade, and the personal cost of speaking the truth.
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Ahead of his appearance at Ledbury Poetry Festival, poet and translator George Szirtes writes on the lyricism and wit at the heart of poetic protest.
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Peter Idling writes for PEN Atlas on the man who would be Pol Pot, the darker side of human nature and what drives people to destruction
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Peter Idling writes for PEN Atlas on the man who would be Pol Pot, the darker side of human nature and what drives people to destruction
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Carmen Bugan on Wole Soyinka’s insistence on liberty.
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How does the future look for European fiction? Rajendra Chitnis and Rosalind Harvey discuss their experiences of shortlisting for this year’s ELN Translation Pitch event
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As representatives of the 43 disappeared students of Ayotzinapa arrive in London, Mexico’s greatest living writer Elena Poniatowska tells their story.
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Carlos Gamerro explores why so many young Argentinian writers, children of the disappeared, write in the shadow of Shakespeare
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As Ethiopia prepares for its general elections this month, journalist and writer Tullu Liban writes on corruption, media censorship and government intimidation
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Sanjuana Martínez on state-sanctioned violence against journalists in Mexico – and why they stay and carry on regardless
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Sanjuana Martínez on state-sanctioned violence against journalists in Mexico – and why they stay and carry on regardless
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Writer and translator Daniel Hahn writes from Bologna Children’s Book Fair about the challenge of bringing more children’s literature from ‘the world’ into English
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‘The ones who managed to escape’ and ‘the ones who didn’t live to tell the tale’ – Juan Pablo Villalobos on how we have failed young people in Latin America
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Pergentino José Ruiz on the importance of Mexico’s indigenous languages and oral culture
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