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Knowing Is a Kind of Pain: An Interview with Vaddey Ratner
Vaddey Ratner on memory, narrative history, and storytelling as a means of survival.
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Coffee Corner
Bushra al-Maqtari on how Sana’a, Yemen, has changed. Translated by Sawad Hussain.
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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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PEN Centres from around the world share their top reads of 2015, and tell us what they will be campaigning on in 2016.
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PEN Centres from around the world share their top reads of 2015, and tell us what they will be campaigning on in 2016.
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Translator and writer Jethro Soutar reports from the 2015 Guadalajara International Book Fair, the biggest annual literary event in the Spanish-speaking world.
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To mark International Human Rights Day, a special PEN Atlas dispatch from the refugee camps at Calais by writers Dr. Olumide Popoola and Annie Holmes.
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To mark International Human Rights Day, a special PEN Atlas dispatch from the refugee camps at Calais by writers Dr. Olumide Popoola and Annie Holmes.
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Canadian journalist Ann Walmsley, author of The Prison Book Club, reports from the last stop on her UK book tour – an English PEN ‘Meet the Writer’ event at HMP Wandsworth.
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Good afternoon. I’d like to express my gratitude to Erica Jarnes [at English PEN] for giving me this opportunity to speak today, and to you all for listening. In the next half hour, I’ll touch on why I read, the different ways of reading, and how exactly books leave legacies inside us – and whether…
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The prolific Belgian writer talks to PEN atlas about the Parisian literary scene, a recurring character called Amélie Nothomb and her latest book – Petronille, published in English translation by Europa Editions.
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Eugene Vodolazkin writes on using the language of the past to construct new meaning for the present, and the medieval and postmodern influences for his new novel Laurus.
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The Feminist Press’s Lauren Hook sends a dispatch from Kraków’s annual Conrad Festival, reflecting particularly on the inspiring women writers she met there.
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Larry Siems, director of the Freedom to Write and International Programs at PEN American Center, makes an impassioned plea for the case of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, imprisoned at Guantánamo.
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Two years after the Euromaidan movement began, translator Steve Komarnyckyj speaks to prominent Ukrainian writers about free speech and the influence of the Kremlin in Kyiv.
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Two years after the Euromaidan movement began, translator Steve Komarnyckyj speaks to prominent Ukrainian writers about free speech and the influence of the Kremlin in Kyiv.
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Zimbabwean lawyer Petina Gappah, founder of The Orwell Project, reflects on revolutions, betrayals, and the universality of Orwell’s masterpiece.
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Zimbabwean lawyer Petina Gappah, founder of The Orwell Project, reflects on revolutions, betrayals, and the universality of Orwell’s masterpiece.
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Former child refugee Gulwali Passarlay shares his experience of stepping into a new life in the UK and discusses the publication of his memoir, The Lightless Sky.
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Marc Owen Jones, co-editor of a new book exploring the personal stories behind the Arab Spring’s ‘forgotten front’, shares his experiences of Bahrain as a child growing up and now.
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Marc Owen Jones, co-editor of a new book exploring the personal stories behind the Arab Spring’s ‘forgotten front’, shares his experiences of Bahrain as a child growing up and now.
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Atef Abu Saif discusses his latest publication – a collection of diary entries from the Gaza Strip – and reports on Gaza’s thriving cultural scene.
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