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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Editorial: A Digital Salon
Our editorial on the Digital English PEN Literary Salon – interviews with writers who were due to appear at the 2020 London Book Fair.
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The Librarian Would Give You a Lock-down Extension: An Interview with Chen Qiufan
Chen Quifan – also known as Stanley Chan – discusses Shanghai, speculative fiction, AI, and threats to humanity.
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Zoonotic
South African writer Henrietta Rose-Innes writes on lockdown in Cape Town, and spider bites.
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Plague Diary: A Week
Three days from a week of Portuguese writer Gonçalo M. Tavares’s coronavirus diary.
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Standing with Hong Kong: An Interview with Joshua Wong and Jason Y. Ng
Joshua Wong and Jason Y. Ng, authors of Unfree Speech, discuss free speech in Hong Kong, coronavirus, and the role of literature in campaigning for global democracy.
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Editorial: Transmissions in the Time of Coronavirus
Read about changes to PEN Transmissions during our current crisis.
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How to Quarantine a Revolution
Lebanese writer and actress Dima Mikhayel Matta writes on quarantine, revolution, and being queer in Beirut.
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Silence, Our Noisy Silence: A Conversation with Sema Kaygusuz and Nicholas Glastonbury
Sema Kaygusuz and Nicholas Glastonbury discuss shame, representation and the Turkish language.
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Who Gets to Write What?
Ananda Devi writes on Mauritius and London, the purpose of fiction, and appearing to tread dark territories.
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Where Should They Throw Us? An Interview with Rodaan Al Galidi
Iraqi-Dutch novelist speaks to us about writing the asylum process, language and the value of humour.
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Free Music
Iranian musician Mehdi Rajabian writes on his time in Evin Prison, and music as a form of resistance in the Middle East.
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Translating Ulysses for Iran
Iranian-Canadian novelist and translator Akram Pedramnia writes on translating James Joyce into Persian, evading the censors, and imperial co-option of resistance.
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With this Novel, I Return: An Interview with Rafik Schami
Syrian-German novelist Rafik Schami discusses liberty, storytelling, language and exile.
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Always Against the Idols: A Conversation with Chus Pato and Erín Moure
Galician poet Chus Pato and Canadian poet and translator Erín Moure discuss collaboration, Francoism, language rights and iconoclasm. PEN Transmissions is English PEN’s magazine for international and translated voices. PEN’s members are the backbone of our work, helping us to support international literature, campaign for writers at risk, and advocate for the freedom to write…
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With Care
Indonesian writer and artist Khairani Barokka writes on ableism in literature and translation.
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Out of the Ashes
The last in our series with Granta magazine on writers and their translators, Geovani Martins writes new short fiction, and Julia Sanches writes on translating it.
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Connecting Worlds, Inventing Worlds
The second in our series with Granta on writers and their translators, José Eduardo Agualusa and Daniel Hahn share an embrace.
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Editorial: PEN Transmissions x Granta
Our editorial on the PEN Transmissions x Granta Magazine series.
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A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
The first in our series with Granta on writers and their translators, Peter Stamm pens new short fiction and Michael Hofmann writes on translating Stamm.
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What We Have to Build Next
Tanaka Mhishi discusses appearing on a BBC documentary as a male survivor of rape, and what writers can do to tackle sexual harm.
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All These Write, Not I Alone: A Conversation with Vikram Kolmannskog
A year after the decriminalisation of gay sex in India, we speak to Norwegian-Indian writer Vikram Kolmannskog about writing self, place and queerness.
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Against the Current: An Interview with Gwen Davies
Welsh-English translator and editor of New Welsh Review, Gwen Davies, speaks to us about indigeneity, place, migration and translating contemporary Wales.
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Turkey’s Endless War on Books
Can Bahadır Yüce writes on self-censorship and the destruction on books in Turkey.
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