Dear PEN Members, Dear friends, In some ways this was a month focused on linguistic rights. Not that the rest of our world stopped turning. In Mexico the good and the bad continued to speed in a complex spiral. President...
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Dear PEN Members, Dear friends, Hori Takeaki, Eric Lax and I have just spent several days in London, discussing PEN strategy, spending time with Laura McVeigh and the staff of our international office and talking to publishers at the London...
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Dear PEN Members, Dear friends, By now many of you will have read about our PEN International mission to Mexico. There is a great deal on the website. Please have a look. This mission was important for two reasons. First,...
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December 13, 2011 Dear PEN Members, Dear Friends, Over the last month I have been able to spend time with some twenty of our Centres in Africa and in Europe – a PEN African Network meeting in Dakar, four days...
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Dear PEN Members, Dear Friends, Sixteen years ago today, our colleague Ken Saro-Wiwa was hanged by Nigerian officials for writing and speaking, and doing so persistently. I was in southern Tunisia with a group of writers and film makers when...
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