PEN Transmissions

Selma Dabbagh reports from the Palestine Festival of Literature: Part 1

This week the PEN Atlas hears from Selma Dabbagh at the Palestine Festival of Literature.

This week’s PEN Atlas despatch is from Dubravka Ugresic who considers a very specific human species and its survival; the writer.

In this week’s PEN Atlas despatch editor and translator Michele Hutchinson introduces some of the greatest Flemish writers…

Contra la narcoliteraturaLa narrativa de la violencia en México 2: tres razones para no usar la palabra narcoliteratura

This week for PEN Atlas, Juan Pablo Villalobos writes against ‘Narcoliterature’. This piece has been translated from Spanish by Rosalind Harvey.

The second PEN Atlas despatch in this week’s two-part sequence is by one of China’s most important writers and avant-garde poets, Han Dong,

The PEN Atlas continues this week with a two-part blog sequence. The first despatch comes from one of China’s most established writers, Yan Lianke

This week’s PEN Atlas despatch comes from Krys Lee, who takes a look at the literature from (and about) North Korea

This week’s PEN Atlas despatch comes from Krys Lee, who takes a look at the literature from (and about) North Korea

La narrativa de la violencia en México 1: el cuento. Juan Pablo Villalobos

The PEN Atlas series continues with a powerful despatch by Mexican writer Juan Pablo Villalobos.

The PEN Atlas series continues with a powerful despatch by Mexican writer Juan Pablo Villalobos.

Our first PEN Atlas commission. A piece by Athens based writer Gazmend Kapllani.