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      Every year, PEN International hosts a number of events around the world promoting freedom of expression and celebrating literature in a variety of ways. PEN Centres stage events such as literary festivals large and small, storytelling sessions with families and children, book clubs and everything in between. One important occasion to mark is the annual Day of the Imprisoned Writer, 15 November, which gives the entire PEN community a chance to celebrate our work across the world as well as drawing attention to the ongoing persecution faced by many writers today.

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      Hay Festival Wales
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      The 79th PEN International Congress
    • 23 Nov 2013
      International Day to End Impunity

    The Scottish PEN Free the WordI Event at Edinburgh International Book Festival with Noo Sara-Wiwa & Binyavanga Wainaina


    19 Aug 2012. 12:30 - 13:30
    Charlotte Square, Edinburgh , United Kingdom

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    Edinburgh International Book Festival:

    A new generation of writers is changing perceptions of post-colonial Africa. In this event, journalist Noo Saro-Wiwa describes her return to Nigeria, the sleeping superpower where her father was executed for campaigning against devastation of the environment by oil companies. Binyavanga Wainaina’s brilliant memoir takes the reader through Kenya, Uganda and South Africa. Both reveal an exuberant continent of complexity and contradiction.

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