Sanjuana Martínez on state-sanctioned violence against journalists in Mexico – and why they stay and carry on regardless
Read MoreAutocensura y silencio
Sanjuana Martínez on state-sanctioned violence against journalists in Mexico – and why they stay and carry on regardless
Read MoreThe translator as literary activist
Jethro Soutar writes for PEN Atlas on the urgent case of Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, the PEN-award-winning author whom he translates and is now trying to help protect, as Juan faces persecution from the regime in Equitorial Guinea
Read MoreImagine – Writing fiction in Mexico
Juan Pablo Villalobos returns to PEN Atlas this week, asking us to imagine the struggle of being a writer in Mexico, where fiction is so often outpaced by brutal reality
Read MorePEN Atlas Q&A – Alejandro Zambra, author of Ways of Going Home
PEN Atlas editor Tasja Dorkofikis talks to Alejandro Zambra about his new novel, the responsibility of memory and the nation of Chile being in a period of convalescence
Read MoreWhy we keep going
In this week’s PEN Atlas, Lydia Cacho writes about the post-traumatic stress of being a persecuted journalist and the media’s appetite for titillation rather than indignation
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