The author and translator of A Flight Over the Black Sea (Waterloo Press) talk to PEN Atlas about working together, their inspirations and the power of poetry in times of war.
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The author of PEN-supported novel Morning Sea discusses links between writing, revolution and dreaming, and Italy’s complex relationship with emigration
Read MoreWole Soyinka’s poetry: the insistence on liberty
The Nobel Laureate Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka has recently been nominated to the post of Professor of Poetry at Oxford, and voting is currently taking place. This welcome and ground-breaking nomination – if elected, Soyinka will be the first ever African to hold the post – brings a renewed attention to his poetry, which is…
Read MorePEN Atlas Q&A: Jenny Erpenbeck
In this special PEN Atlas Q&A, winner of the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Jenny Erpenbeck shares thoughts on history, narrative and her relationship with her translator
Read MorePEN Atlas Q&A: Peter Stamm
In this PEN Atlas Q&A, PEN Atlas editor Tasja Dorkofikis interviews Peter Stamm, one of Switzerland’s best-known writers and author of the novel All Days Are Night and short story collection We Are Flying, published by Portobello Books this month.
Read MoreThe Red Terror and Maximilian Voloshin
Robert Chandler writes about one of the hidden gems in The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry
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