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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Latinx Letters: An Interview with Leo Boix
Leo Boix discusses bilingualism, British Latinx poetry, and race in Latin America.
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Remembering Partition
For our series on exile with the British Museum and Edmund de Waal, Kavita Puri writes on partition, memory and exile.
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Exile, One Step Beyond
For our series on exile with the British Museum and Edmund de Waal, Selma Dabbagh writes on Palestine, desire, place and the future.
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Disturbing the Comfortable and Comforting the Disturbed
Andrzej Tichý writes on music and migrant experience
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How Do I Reconcile these Irreconcilable Things?
For our series on exile with the British Museum and Edmund de Waal, Taqralik Partridge writes on Scotland, Canada, and language loss
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Liberating Languages: A Conversation with Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Damian Le Bas and Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún
Three writers discuss language and power.
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Poetry’s Democracy: An Interview with Anthony Anaxagorou
Anthony Anaxagorou – poet, writer, publisher and educator – discusses spoken word after COVID-19, Cyprus, and poetry in the age of social media.
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This Library Is Not an Artwork: An Interview with Edmund de Waal
To open our series with the British Museum and Edmund de Waal, Edmund speaks to us about his library of exile
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This Is Not an Arthur Koestler Novel – This Is Turkey
Can Bahadır Yüce writes on Turkey’s response to coronavirus, and calls for the release of at-risk political prisoners
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That Is Where My Navel String Buried: An Interview with Ingrid Persaud
Ingrid Persaud discusses love, Trinidad, and home.
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Art Is a Tool for Thinking: An Interview with Olivia Laing
Olivia Laing discusses the power of art in an emergency, the role of bad art, and our current weather.
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A Hideous Kind of Tetris: Eley Williams in Conversation with Peggy Hughes
As part of our Digital Literary Salon, Eley Williams speaks to Peggy Hughes about dictionaries, constructing characters, and playing literary Tetris.
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Interrogating Bodies: Irenosen Okojie in Conversation with Aki Schilz
As part of our Digital Literary Salon, Irenosen Okojie speaks to Aki Schilz about bodies, musicality, and placing black women at the centre.
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The Darker Emotions of Being a Woman: Hazel Barkworth in Conversation with Hannah Trevarthen
As part of our Digital Literary Salon, Hazel Barkworth speaks to Hannah Trevarthen about summertime, the writing process, and ‘unlikeable’ women characters.
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Holding Up a Funhouse Mirror: Lavie Tidhar in Conversation with Robert Sharp
As part of our Digital Literary Salon, Lavie Tidhar speaks to Robert Sharp about speculative fiction, cultural appropriation, and what we can – and should – write.
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Being Seen: Dean Atta in Conversation with Keith Jarrett
As part of our Digital Literary Salon, Dean Atta speaks to Keith Jarrett about queer black British experience, schools, and writing for teens.
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