Sophie Lewis on translating Noémi Lefebvre.
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Spicy’s Story
Omid Tofighian and Behrouz Boochani tell the story of Bangladeshi refugee Spicy – across borders, seas and prisons.
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Working Masks
Kikuko Tsumura on making masks work. Translated by Polly Barton.
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Memories of the Fires
El Salvador’s Claudia Hernández on war, women, and burning. Translated by Julia Sanches.
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Lest Writers Become Accountants: An Interview with Mauro Javier Cárdenas
Ecuadorean Mauro Javier Cárdenas discusses radical grammar, Spanish, and US politics.
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For Uncle Milton
Robert Jones, Jr. on discovering he was not the only Black, queer member of his family.
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A Conversation with Andrew Black: A Conversation with Steven Hall
Steven Hall on thirteen years between novels, parent-children relationships, and full stops.
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For the Stories, or for the Visa Delays?
Nayrouz Qarmout writes about Edinburgh, Gaza, short stories, and packing her bag.
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A Broken Story: A Conversation with Mia Couto
Mia Couto discusses colonialism, Covid-19 and silence.
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Breaking Lines: An Interview with Tine Høeg
Danish writer Tine Høeg discusses line breaks, desire and and narrative puzzles.
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On the Pacific Coast: The English PEN Membership Interview Pilar Quintana and Lisa Dillman
Pilar Quintana and Lisa Dillman, author and translator of PEN Translates award-winning The Bitch, are interviewed by the English PEN Membership from their homes in Colombia and the USA.
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Shuddhashar at 30: An Interview with Tutul
Bangladeshi publisher Tutul – with whom Margaret Atwood shared her 2016 PEN Pinter Prize – discusses exile, free thinking, and thirty years of the magazine and publisher Shuddhashar.
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Already Bedfellows: A Long Interview with So Mayer
So Mayer discusses fascism, cinema, genderqueerness and freedom of expression.
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Why I Wrote ‘England Street’
Read Jay Bernard’s ‘England Street (Reggae fi Linton)’, commissioned to celebrate Linton Kwesi Johnson winning the 2020 PEN Pinter Prize. Featuring a specially commissioned introduction to the poem from Jay.
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A Dossier of Hate
Priyamavada Gopal writes on her experience of online hatred, and calls for an end to a politics of hate.
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Translating Every Day: The Importance and Impossibility of Decolonising Translation
Kavita Bhanot writes on mother-tongue shame, translating across generations, and decolonising translation.
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When an Hour Stretched into A Day
Tsitsi Dangarembga, shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, writes on demonstrating, writing, and being arrested.
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On the Other Side of the Door that Leads to Hell: An Interview with Selva Almada
Argentinian writer Selva Almada discusses femicide, violence in lockdown, and how to write historic trauma.
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Another Unknown Person Ringing at My Door: A Statement from Svetlana Alexievich
A statement from Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Laureate and Chair of Belarusian PEN.
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Hope in a Bottle of Honey
Kurdish writer Nurcan Baysal responds to a letter from Nedim Türfent.
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Translating Fascisms
Alex Valente on translating fascism between Italy, the UK and the US.
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The Words We Choose: A Roundtable with the International Booker Prize Shortlisted Translators
The shortlisted translators of the 2020 International Booker Prize in conversation with Georgina Godwin.
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When I Stop Writing, I Stop Living: An Interview with Maryse Condé
Guadeloupe’s Maryse Condé, winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize, talks about liberation, satire, and her hopes for the world.
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Black Deaths Matter: About My Father
Patrice Lawrence writes about her father, Windrush, and death.
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Storms
Barbadian speculative fiction writer Karen Lord writes before and after a storm.
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Some Place to Call Home
Yvonne Battle-Felton on listening, fear, and home.
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After Saartjie: The Persistence of Prejudice
Dzifa Benson writes on contemporary and historical perceptions of black women’s bodies
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Editorial: Black Voices
Our editorial on forthcoming work in PEN Transmissions.
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The Global Desi Story: A Conversation with Kritika Pandey
Kritika Pandey, winner of the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, talks about transgressing cultural norms, protesting, and Hinglish.
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Exils
To close our series on exile with the British Museum and Edmund de Waal, Scholastique Mukasonga writes a personal experience of exile as a Rwandan Tutsi
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