Bangladeshi publisher Tutul – with whom Margaret Atwood shared her 2016 PEN Pinter Prize – discusses exile, free thinking, and thirty years of the magazine and publisher Shuddhashar.
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Already Bedfellows: A Long Interview with So Mayer
So Mayer discusses fascism, cinema, genderqueerness and freedom of expression.
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On the Other Side of the Door that Leads to Hell: An Interview with Selva Almada
Argentinian writer Selva Almada discusses femicide, violence in lockdown, and how to write historic trauma.
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The Words We Choose: A Roundtable with the International Booker Prize Shortlisted Translators
The shortlisted translators of the 2020 International Booker Prize in conversation with Georgina Godwin.
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When I Stop Writing, I Stop Living: An Interview with Maryse Condé
Guadeloupe’s Maryse Condé, winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize, talks about liberation, satire, and her hopes for the world.
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The Global Desi Story: A Conversation with Kritika Pandey
Kritika Pandey, winner of the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, talks about transgressing cultural norms, protesting, and Hinglish.
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Latinx Letters: An Interview with Leo Boix
Leo Boix discusses bilingualism, British Latinx poetry, and race in Latin America.
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Liberating Languages: A Conversation with Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Damian Le Bas and Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún
Three writers discuss language and power.
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Poetry’s Democracy: An Interview with Anthony Anaxagorou
Anthony Anaxagorou – poet, writer, publisher and educator – discusses spoken word after COVID-19, Cyprus, and poetry in the age of social media.
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That Is Where My Navel String Buried: An Interview with Ingrid Persaud
Ingrid Persaud discusses love, Trinidad, and home.
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Art Is a Tool for Thinking: An Interview with Olivia Laing
Olivia Laing discusses the power of art in an emergency, the role of bad art, and our current weather.
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The Librarian Would Give You a Lock-down Extension: An Interview with Chen Qiufan
Chen Quifan – also known as Stanley Chan – discusses Shanghai, speculative fiction, AI, and threats to humanity.
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Standing with Hong Kong: An Interview with Joshua Wong and Jason Y. Ng
Joshua Wong and Jason Y. Ng, authors of Unfree Speech, discuss free speech in Hong Kong, coronavirus, and the role of literature in campaigning for global democracy.
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Silence, Our Noisy Silence: A Conversation with Sema Kaygusuz and Nicholas Glastonbury
Sema Kaygusuz and Nicholas Glastonbury discuss shame, representation and the Turkish language.
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Where Should They Throw Us? An Interview with Rodaan Al Galidi
Iraqi-Dutch novelist speaks to us about writing the asylum process, language and the value of humour.
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With this Novel, I Return: An Interview with Rafik Schami
Syrian-German novelist Rafik Schami discusses liberty, storytelling, language and exile.
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Always Against the Idols: A Conversation with Chus Pato and Erín Moure
Galician poet Chus Pato and Canadian poet and translator Erín Moure discuss collaboration, Francoism, language rights and iconoclasm. PEN Transmissions is English PEN’s magazine for international and translated voices. PEN’s members are the backbone of our work, helping us to support international literature, campaign for writers at risk, and advocate for the freedom to write…
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All These Write, Not I Alone: A Conversation with Vikram Kolmannskog
A year after the decriminalisation of gay sex in India, we speak to Norwegian-Indian writer Vikram Kolmannskog about writing self, place and queerness.
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Against the Current: An Interview with Gwen Davies
Welsh-English translator and editor of New Welsh Review, Gwen Davies, speaks to us about indigeneity, place, migration and translating contemporary Wales.
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