Coronavirus
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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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Can Bahadır Yüce writes on Turkey’s response to coronavirus, and calls for the release of at-risk political prisoners
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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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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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Chen Quifan – also known as Stanley Chan – discusses Shanghai, speculative fiction, AI, and threats to humanity.
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South African writer Henrietta Rose-Innes writes on lockdown in Cape Town, and spider bites.
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Three days from a week of Portuguese writer Gonçalo M. Tavares’s coronavirus diary.
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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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Read about changes to PEN Transmissions during our current crisis.
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Lebanese writer and actress Dima Mikhayel Matta writes on quarantine, revolution, and being queer in Beirut.
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