personal essays
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Daniela Hodrová on the city. Translated by Elena Sokol.
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Sascha A. Akhtar on the literature of South Asia, and young people translating Urdu poetry.
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Andrew Lownie on making the Mountbatten diaries and letters public, and the importance of writers’ access to archives.
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Panashe Chigumadzi on Tsitsi Dangarembga, commissioned to celebrate Dangarembga winning the 2021 PEN Pinter Prize.
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Lauren Elkin on translating de Beauvoir’s newly discovered novel The Inseparables.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Vijay Seshadri on Saadat Hasan
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Selahattin Demirtaş on ‘home’, state-sanctioned writing, and what makes literature literature. Translated by Kate Ferguson.
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Anna Aslanyan on the perils of translating news.
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Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu writes to Amanuel Asrat on his 50th birthday. Translated by Issayas Beyene.
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Shash Trevett on the poetry of Nillanthan.
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Worapoj Panpong on family, land, and money. Translated from the Thai by Mui Poopoksakul
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Noʻu Revilla, Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian), on the power of ecopoetry
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Karlo Mila on language, knowledge, and right relationships.
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Nayrouz Qarmout writes from Gaza
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Suad Aldarra’s commission for the 2021 Cúirt International Festival of Literature, part of the PEN x Common Currency residency.
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Nadine Anne Hura (Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi) on climate, making time, and making people listen.
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Corinne Fowler on how writers and writing explore the colonial histories of the English countryside.
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Dulce Maria Cardoso on ageing. Translated by Ángel Gurría-Quintana.
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Fido Nesti on adapting Nineteen Eighty-Four into a graphic novel in the shadow of Brazilian populism.
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Sophie Lewis on translating Noémi Lefebvre.
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