Dear PEN members, Dear friends, There are moments when civilizations throw away the ethical value of that word, civilization. They lose the credibility needed to be taken seriously. The question is, can they get it back? History is surprisingly indulgent....
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14 September 2015 Update #1 to RAN 02/15 PEN International is deeply concerned by the seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence handed out to Azerbaijani investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova on 1 September 2015. Ismayilova was convicted of “economic crimes, including illegal entrepreneurship and...
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PEN South Africa held two PEN Dialogues at the 2015 Open Book Festival. Read board member Adré Marshall’s write-up of the first Dialogue: Lives of Writers here. Centre Co-ordinator Lindsay Callaghan attended the second event, Russia Under Putin, on Saturday...
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PEN South Africa held two PEN Dialogues at the 2015 Open Book Festival. Board member Adré Marshall attended the first event, Lives of Writers, on Friday 11 September and has written about it below. Read about the second Dialogue, Russia...
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Congolese author Alain Mabanckou, who splits his time between France, Congo and the US, spoke at the 2015 Open Book Festival last week. We caught up with him for a quick interview after his talk on his Man Booker-longlisted book...
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