The imprisonment and conviction of Pussy Riot
PEN International statement : “PEN International’s Writers in Prison Committee is deeply concerned at the two year prison sentence handed down today to the three members of the Russian punk band, Pussy...
View ArticleInternational PEN Congress 2012
PEN Members from over 80 countries around the world gather for prominent literary gathering– The 78th PEN International Congress The following report on the 78th PEN International Congress is by J....
View ArticlePEN International Women Writer’s Committee ; a Letter to President Putin.
President Vladimir Putin President of the Russian Federation Re. Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Your Excellency, The Women Writers Committee of PEN International, the largest worldwide...
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Day of the Imprisoned Writer Event on November 15th 2012
Images: Brian Keenan , Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, and Justine McCarthy reading at The Day of the Imprisoned Writer Event in collaboration between Irish PEN and Front Line Defenders. The New Theatre , in...
View ArticlePEN International Declaration on Digital Freedom
PEN recognizes the promise of digital media as a means of fulfilling the fundamental right of free expression. At the same time, poets, playwrights, essayists, novelists, writers, bloggers, and...
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The Irish PEN Award for Literature 2013; request for nominations
2013 PEN Award nominations In 1998, Irish PEN set up an award to honour an Irish-born writer who has made an outstanding contribution to Irish Literature.This Award is for a significant body of work,...
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John Banville to receive the 2013 Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement...
Irish PEN is delighted to honour author John Banville with the 2013 Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Irish Literature. In keeping with the tradition started in 1935, (when the WB Yeats...
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Freedom of Expression in Ireland: A public interview with KEVIN MYERS
Should writers always speak their minds? Do writers always speak their minds? Do we have a free press in Ireland, or is the media controlled by a politically correct agenda? Irish PEN in collaboration...
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Time to Say No ! Poems for Malala Yousafzai
Journalists and writers from Brazil, Austria, Germany, Argentina, Turkey, India, Bulgaria, Iran, Norway, Pakistan, Ireland, China, Estonia, Mexico and Vietnam, among others, participate in “Time to...
View ArticleIrish PEN 2013 Summer Newsletter
Page 1 Irish PEN’s summer 2013 newsletter o New Members & Members’ News o PEN/NEW VOICES Competition o AGM 2013 o Irish PEN Award Dinner o Irish PEN and Blasphemy o Irish PEN co-sponsors Free...
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