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The International Literature Festival Berlin (ilb) calls on cultural institutions, schools, radio stations and interested parties to participate in a worldwide reading of prose and poems by the Chinese author …
February 9 2012 PEN Centre visits in February by Laura McVeighThis month I will be joining colleagues in Irish PEN to celebrate their Annual Awards evening. This year Irish PEN are delighted to be honouring Joseph O’Connor with the Irish …
Gernika Remembrance Day poetry appeal by Ruth SimisterAn appeal from Basque PEN Club 26 April 2012 will be the 75th anniversary of the bombing of the town of Gernika, Spain, by the Nazi Legion-Condor aiding General Franco …
February 8 2012 Call to PEN Members by Karis EaglestoneNominate your favourite piece of women’s writing for International Women’s Day – 8th March In celebration of International Women’s Day (8th March) and PEN’s 90th anniversary, PEN International asks PEN …
February 2 2012 Voices Around the World by Ruth SimisterBy Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, former International Secretary of PEN International Each month notices of writers under threat come across my desk. I find myself studying the pictures of the writers when …
