In this week’s PEN Atlas piece, Arkady Babchenko writes on freedom of speech, media and the internet in Russia
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In this week’s PEN Atlas piece, award-winning Italian writer and European Commission official Diego Marani considers the role of the author in the translation process.
Read MoreWomen Writers, Part I
PEN Atlas contributor Krys Lee considers the impact of Kyung-sook Shin’s Man Asian Literary Prize win and where Korean women writers stand today
Read MoreMemories put in mothballs
In his second despatch for the PEN Atlas, Athens’s based Gazmend Kapllani looks back to the Greek Civil War and considers what effect Civil War has had on the nation’s literature
Read MoreHow international is poetry?
When the projection fails during the Finnish poet Olli Heikkonen’s reading and the slides with parallel Dutch and English translations disappear from the stage, poetry suddenly doesn’t seem that international anymore.
Read MoreThe Debut Generation
In Soviet times there was a concept known as ‘young writers’. It was in fact a class concept. A budding writer was expected to descend from the working class and to glorify the Soviet regime. All facilities were provided for this purpose, such as the Gorki Literary Institute, founded to teach workers creative writing.
Read MoreBodies not corpses
When I was asked to write this blog, the first option immediately suggested to me as a possible topic was that of the literature about the violence in Mexico. I have to confess that my first reaction was to refuse and get defensive
Read MoreSelma Dabbagh reports from the Palestine Festival of Literature: Part 3
In her third PEN Atlas despatch, British Palestinian writer Selma Dabbagh reflects on Palfest, dealing with criticism, and what freedom feels like
Read MoreSelma Dabbagh reports from the Palestine Festival of Literature: Part 2
In this second PEN Atlas despatch from British Palestinian writer Selma Dabbagh, we are taken deeper into Gaza; into the streets, into darkness
Read MoreSelma 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.
Read MoreEndangered Species
This week’s PEN Atlas despatch is from Dubravka Ugresic who considers a very specific human species and its survival; the writer.
Read MoreGreat Flemish Voices: Louis Paul Boon and Beyond
In this week’s PEN Atlas despatch editor and translator Michele Hutchinson introduces some of the greatest Flemish writers…
Read MoreContra la narcoliteratura
Contra la narcoliteraturaLa narrativa de la violencia en México 2: tres razones para no usar la palabra narcoliteratura
Read MoreAgainst Narcoliterature
This week for PEN Atlas, Juan Pablo Villalobos writes against ‘Narcoliterature’. This piece has been translated from Spanish by Rosalind Harvey.
Read MoreChinese literature – where are we now?
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,
Read MorePerforming in Chains
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
Read MoreWhat We Don’t Know 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
Read MoreWhat We Don't Know 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
Read MoreYo ya no quiero salir en esta película
La narrativa de la violencia en México 1: el cuento. Juan Pablo Villalobos
Read MoreI Don’t Want To Be In This Film Any More
The PEN Atlas series continues with a powerful despatch by Mexican writer Juan Pablo Villalobos.
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