Roasting chestnuts on an open fire, taking the first whiff of mulled wine, and cracking open a great work of literature in translation: find your stocking-filler or winter-cheerer with these recommendations
Read MoreMemory and Responsibility
Having won the 2014 Jan Michalski Prize for Road to Donbass, Serhiy Zhadan writes for PEN Atlas
Read MoreBut why do you write your books in English and Turkish?
Elif Shafak investigates what makes the bilingual author choose to write in one language and not another
Read More'I can read': life and death in Guerrero
Juan Villoro writes about the recent abductions and murders of students in Mexico
Read More‘I can read’: life and death in Guerrero
Juan Villoro writes about the recent abductions and murders of students in Mexico
Read MoreArt and Culture from the Frontline: In the hope that Syria Speaks even more!
Syrian journalist and short story writer Rasha Abbas interrogates the role of art and literature in conflict
Read MoreSoldier No. 9
Andrey Kurkov reports on the latest news from Ukraine,
Read MoreIdentity and durability
Paulo Scott writes for PEN Atlas about the need for Brazilian authors to move away from stories about ‘white guys, living in the big urban centres’, and how a vain desire for durability has stunted the literature of his country
Read More'While the Gods Were Sleeping'
To commemorate the centenary of The Great War, PEN Atlas takes us to Belgium
Read More‘While the Gods Were Sleeping’
To commemorate the centenary of The Great War, PEN Atlas takes us to Belgium
Read MoreWhen my cat tried to have breakfast at Tiffany's
To celebrate International Cat Day, Lena Devani writes from Greece for PEN Atlas
Read MoreWhen my cat tried to have breakfast at Tiffany’s
To celebrate International Cat Day, Lena Devani writes from Greece for PEN Atlas
Read MoreIn their leaves
To celebrate World Book Day, we’re publishing a short story by Carole Martinez, translated by Howard Curtis.
Read MoreThe Achebe I Knew
Ahead of the Africa Writes festival 2013 (5-7 July) PEN Atlas hears from African writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o on his friend and mentor Chinua Achebe.
Read MoreThe Sounds of Istanbul
In the latest of our literary dispatches from Turkey, Mario Levi contemplates the sounds of the city he grew up in, and the stories that lie behind them for those willing to listen.
Read MoreTranslation, Revolution, and Pedagogy
Following her appearance at the Literary Translation Centre for London Book Fair 2013, Samia Mehrez writes about working collaboratively on the book Translating Egypt’s Revolution: The Language of Tahrir, which uses multiple perspectives to translate the linguistic and cultural meanings of the momentous events in her country
Read MoreWhat is Official? Turkish writing, from state discourse to civil literature
As part of our ongoing series of PEN Atlas dispatches from Turkey, Kaya Genç describes the struggle for the soul of his country’s literature between state officials and independent creative writers
Read MoreHistory and hysteria: The private libraries of dictators
Gazmend Kapllani on the books that were damned and banned during the communist regime in Albania for PEN Atlas
Read MoreEndangered Species
This week’s PEN Atlas despatch is from Dubravka Ugresic who considers a very specific human species and its survival; the writer.
Read MoreGreat Flemish Voices: Louis Paul Boon and Beyond
In this week’s PEN Atlas despatch editor and translator Michele Hutchinson introduces some of the greatest Flemish writers…
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