• Coffee Corner

    Coffee Corner

    Bushra al-Maqtari on how Sana’a, Yemen, has changed. Translated by Sawad Hussain.

  • PEN 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

  • Lost and Found: Shortlisting for the European Literature Night Translation Pitch 2015

    How does the future look for European fiction? Rajendra Chitnis and Rosalind Harvey discuss their experiences of shortlisting for this year’s ELN Translation Pitch event

  • Ayotzinapa

    As representatives of the 43 disappeared students of Ayotzinapa arrive in London, Mexico’s greatest living writer Elena Poniatowska tells their story.

  • Hamlet and the Disappeared

    Carlos Gamerro explores why so many young Argentinian writers, children of the disappeared, write in the shadow of Shakespeare

  • Freedom of the press in Ethiopia

    As Ethiopia prepares for its general elections this month, journalist and writer Tullu Liban writes on corruption, media censorship and government intimidation

  • PEN 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.

  • Self-censorship and silence

    Sanjuana Martínez on state-sanctioned violence against journalists in Mexico – and why they stay and carry on regardless

  • Autocensura y silencio

    Sanjuana Martínez on state-sanctioned violence against journalists in Mexico – and why they stay and carry on regardless

  • A rather grim story

    Writer and translator Daniel Hahn writes from Bologna Children’s Book Fair about the challenge of bringing more children’s literature from ‘the world’ into English

  • The long road home

    ‘The ones who managed to escape’ and ‘the ones who didn’t live to tell the tale’ – Juan Pablo Villalobos on how we have failed young people in Latin America

  • A form close to home

    Dorthe Nors, author of the award-winning Karate Chop, reflects on her journey towards the short story form

  • Cherishing Mexico’s oral culture

    Pergentino José Ruiz on the importance of Mexico’s indigenous languages and oral culture

  • Cherishing Mexico's oral culture

    Pergentino José Ruiz on the importance of Mexico’s indigenous languages and oral culture

  • And when the Mexican comic emerged from the sea…

    In the latest of our PEN Atlas Mexican series, Laia Jufresa muses on the fall and rise of Mexican comics

  • The optimist’s words

    Yuri Herrera on impunity and corruption in Mexico, and the careful word choices of President Enrique Peña Nieto

  • The optimist's words

    Yuri Herrera on impunity and corruption in Mexico, and the careful word choices of President Enrique Peña Nieto

  • Maidan: one year on

    Andrey Kurkov, Vice-President of Ukrainian PEN, reports on his country’s revolution and counter-revolution after the first year

  • The Red Terror and Maximilian Voloshin

    Robert Chandler writes about one of the hidden gems in The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry

  • How Korean it is

    Deborah Smith writes for PEN Atlas about the complex experience of bringing a hit South Korean novel to an English-speaking audience

  • You speak such good German

    Alina Bronsky, Russian-born but writing in German, charts the challenges and opportunities faced by the multilingual author