Dear PEN members, Dear friends, Some 20 of us are just back from Turkey. It was a long and complex mission in difficult circumstances – difficult because the freedom of expression situation in Turkey has been in decline for almost...
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Dear PEN members, Dear friends, October is Frankfurt Book Fair. PEN International’s relationship with the Fair continues to grow. The opening session of the Weltempfang was given to our Publishers Circle, with Ronald Blunden, Anders Heger, Ola Wallin and myself...
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Dear PEN members, Dear friends, Those of you who were in Gyeongju for the Congress are now home, those who were not able to come have had a good description of it from our Executive Director, Laura McVeigh, or from...
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Dear PEN Members, Dear friends, This will be a short letter. I wanted to get it off to you before many of us meet in Gyeongju for the 78th PEN International Congress. I am writing to you from Australia where...
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Dear PEN Members, Dear friends, First, the Board has now finished working on the PEN International Declaration on Free Expression and Digital Technologies and passed it unanimously. It is in translation and will be on its way to you very...
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