personal essays – PEN Transmissions

When an Hour Stretched into A Day

Tsitsi Dangarembga, shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, writes on demonstrating, writing, and being arrested.

A statement from Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Laureate and Chair of Belarusian PEN.

Kurdish writer Nurcan Baysal responds to a letter from Nedim Türfent.

Alex Valente on translating fascism between Italy, the UK and the US.

Patrice Lawrence writes about her father, Windrush, and death.

Barbadian speculative fiction writer Karen Lord writes before and after a storm.