Literary evening with Semezdin Mehmedinović
Photograph of a literary evening with the writer and filmmaker Semezdin Mehmedinović that was organised and hosted by the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Centre as part of their "Literary Conversations" series. This...
Panel at event with Semezdin Mehmedinović
Photograph of speaker at a literary evening with the writer and filmmaker Semezdin Mehmedinović that was organised and hosted by the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Centre as part of their "Literary Conversations"...
Freedom of Speech Literary Conversation
Photograph of a round table event hosted by the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Centre as part of their "Literary Conversations" series, which was held at Historijskom muzeju BiH (History Museum of Bosnia...
Reading Balkans: Vladimir Arsenić's literary evening
Photograph of a literary evening organised by the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Centre and held at Historijskom muzeju BiH (History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina) on 26 August 2020. This evening was...
Reading Balkans: Jasmina Topić's literary evening
Photograph of a literary evening organised by the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Centre and held at Muzej književnosti i pozorišne umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine (Museum of Literature and Theater Arts of Bosnia...
Literary evening in Sarajevo
Photograph of a literary evening organised by the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Centre and held at Multimedijalni Centar Mak in Sarajevo on 26 February 2020. This event, which was titled Kako ne...
Poetry session in Sarajevo
Photograph of literary event organised by the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Centre as part of their "Poetry Session" series, which was held at Multimedijalni Centar Mak in Sarajevo on 13 February 2020....
Writers in Creative Reading in Sarajevo
Photograph of a literary event held by the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Centre in collaboration with PEN International titled Pisci u kreativnom čitanju (Writers in Creative Reading), which took place at Multimedijalni...
Social Change workshop in Banja Luka
Photograph of participants of a workshop organised by the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Centre in collaboration with PEN International titled Creative Writing: Journey to a Social Change. The first cycle of these...
Writers in Creative Reading poster
Poster advertising a literary event organised by the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Centre in collaboration with PEN International titled Pisci u kreativnom čitanju (Writers in Creative Reading), which took place at Multimedijalni...
Creative workshop in Banja Luka
Photograph of participants of a workshop organised by the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Centre in collaboration with PEN International titled Creative Writing: Journey to a Social Change. The first cycle of these...
Creative workshop with Nedžad Ibrahimović
Photograph of participants of a workshop organised by the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Centre in collaboration with PEN International titled Creative Writing: Journey to a Social Change. The first cycle of these...
Round table event in Sarajevo
Poster advertising a round table event hosted by the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Centre and the Heinrich Böll Foundation, with support from the Open Society Fund Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was held...
Regional Conference poster
Poster advertising a conference event organised by the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Centre that was titled the Regional Conference of Literature and Culture for Peace: destruction, reconstruction, construction. This conference was held...
Celebrating the Centre's 20th anniversary
Poster advertising an event hosted by the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Centre and the Heinrich Böll Foundation and held at Atelje Figure in Sarajevo on 31 October 2012 to celebrate the Centre's...
Multilingual poster with PEN Charter
Poster from American artist Sally Howell for the USA West Centre showcasing a collage of fragments written in several languages, along with the Charter of PEN International. The excerpt...
Programmes for the 7th and 8th Literary Awards
Programmes for the 7th and 8th editions of the Annual Literary Awards Festival, which was hosted by the USA West Centre and took place on the 28 October, in...
Bray, See and Leedom-Ackerman in Madeira
Photograph of Richard Bray, on the left, former executive director of the USA West Centre; Carolyn See, in the middle, president at that time of the USA West Centre;...
USA West Centre in the Los Angeles Times
Copy of Jack Miles, "Growing Pains (and Pleasures) of PEN USA Center West," Los Angeles Times, 16 September 1990. In this article, Jack Miles, former Board member of the...
USA West Centre's Newsletter
Photograph showing issues of the USA West Centre's newsletter throughout the years. Among them are issues related to Salman Rushdie, president of the American Centre (2004-06), and Nigerian writer...
Writers in Exile Centre Fall 2010 Newsletter
Copy of Newsletter: Center for Writers-in-Exile–American Branch (Fall 2010): 1-6. This is the last newsletter produced by the Writers in Exile American Centre. In the first pages, Anna Frajlich,...
Writers in Exile Centre Fall 2003 Newsletter
Copy of Newsletter: Center for Writers-in-Exile–American Branch (Autumn 2003): 1-6. This newsletter presents a report on the Writers' Conference that took place in Bled, in May 2003, and talks...
Memorial picture for Clara Györgyey
Photograph printed in memory of Clara Györgyey, president of the Writers in Exile American Centre (1976-2010), who died suddenly on 11 January 2010.
Anna Frajlich and Clara Györgyey
Photograph of Clara Györgyey, president of the Writers in Exile American Centre (1976-2010), on the right, and Anna Frajlich, acting president of the Centre after Clara Györgyey's passing and...
Meeting in New York
Photograph taken during a meeting in New York of the Writers in Exile American Centre. In the centre, on the left, Clara Györgyey, president of the Centre (1976-2010) presides...
Special Newsletter
1 typed letter from Clara Györgyey to the members of the Writers in Exile American Centre, 2 September 2009, f. 1. In this letter, which she refers to as...
Women's Day performance at Volcano Theatre
Flyers in Welsh and English advertising an evening of poetry, stories and music that was organised by the Welsh Centre and held at Volcano Theatre in Swansea on 8...
Sally Baker at 2014 Congress
Photograph of Sally Baker, member of the Welsh Centre's Executive Committee, adressing the Assembly of Delegates during the 80th PEN International Congress in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, which was held from...
Kyrgyzstan Government delegates in Cardiff
Photograph of representatives of the Kyrgystan Government with members of the Welsh Centre in Cardiff during their visit to Wales during the week beginning 7 March 2016. From left...
Stage set for Standing Together
Photograph of the stage set for Standing Together/Efo’n Gilydd/ Pia Vınderime/Piştgiriye - a night of songs and poetry in Kurdish and in Welsh that took place on 26 June...
Rebecca F. John
Photograph of Rebecca F. John, winner of the 2015 PEN International New Voices Award, reading from her novel Clown's Shoes. This photograph was most likely taken during the Hay...
Ali Sizer with Kurdish performers
Photograph of the musician Ali Sizer with a group of women from the Kurdish Community Centre in Newport rehearsing for Standing Together/Efo’n Gilydd/ Pia Vınderime/Piştgiriye - A night of...
Performing Standing Together
Photograph of the performance of Standing Together/Efo’n Gilydd/ Pia Vınderime/Piştgiriye - a night of songs and poetry in Kurdish and in Welsh that took place on 26 June 2018...
Dafydd and Sheers at Hay Festival
Photograph of Fflur Dafydd, on the left, and Owen Sheers, on the right - chairs of the Welsh Centre - at the Hay Festival 2016, which was held from...
Caroline Stockford and Ciwanmerd Kulek
Photograph of Caroline Stockford, on the right, president of the Welsh Centre's Translation and Linguistics Rights Committee, with the Kurdish translator Ciwanmerd Kulek, on the left, during the Her...
Glenys M. Roberts wins Translation Challenge
Photograph of Claire Richards, on the left, and Glenys M. Roberts, on the right, at the Her Gyfieithu (Translation Challenge) awards ceremony, which took place on 4 August 2016....
Eric Ngalle Charles speaks with Owen Sheers
Photograph of Eric Ngalle Charles, on the right, member of the Welsh Centre, in conversation with Owen Sheers, chair of the Welsh Centre, on the left, in a post-show...
Launch of The Other Tiger
Invitation to the launch of Gwyn, Richard. The Other Tiger: Recent Poetry From Latin America . Bridgend: Seren Books, 2016. This event launching Richard Gwyn's anthology of Spanish language...
Workshop with Eric Ngalle Charles
Photograph taken during a writing workshop that was held after a talk given by Eric Ngalle Charles, member of the Wesh Centre, who can be seen here seated at...
Africa Cymru event poster
Poster advertising an event organised by the Welsh Centre that was titled Africa Cymru . This event was held in the town of Criccieth on 23 June 2017 and...
Catalunya: Beth Nesaf? event flyer
Flyer advertising a conference that was co-organised by the Welsh Centre in collaboration with Mercator International and the Assemblea Nacional Catalana titled Catalunya: Beth Nesaf? (Catalonia: What's Next?). This...
Idrissa Camara and George Gumisiriza
Photograph of Idrissa Camara, on the left, founder and director of Ballet Nimba (2010-) and George Gumizirisa, on the right, poet and author, at a literary evening organised by...
Participants of Africa Cymru
Photograph of participants of an event organised by the Welsh Centre titled Africa Cymru, which was held in the town of Criccieth on 23 June 2017. Standing at the...
George Gumisiriza and Sally Baker
Photograph of speakers in conversation at an event organised by the Welsh Centre titled Africa Cymru, which was held in the town of Criccieth on 23 June 2017. Here,...
Submission to UN Human Rights Office
Electronically typed submission from the Vietnamese Abroad Centre to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 21 May 2018, ff. 8. This submission was created...
Protesting Vietnamese activists' sentences
Electronically typed open letter from the Vietnamese Abroad Centre, Oviedo, 6 April 2018; heading: «Letter of Protest Condemning Human Right Violations in Vietnam in light of the Recent Trial...
Protesting new cyber security law
Electronically typed open letter from the Vietnamese Abroad Centre, Oviedo, 12 June 2018; heading: «Letter of Objection: Protesting Vietnam’s New Cyber Security Law Granting Unlimited Powers to Infringe on...
Protesting Chinese lease of Vietnamese territory
Electronically typed call to action from the Vietnamese Abroad Centre to the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Oviedo, 6 June 2018, in bulletin HS: 2018/TB/KT03, ff....
Liệu Hữu Lê
Photograph of Liệu Hữu Lê, vice-president of the Vietnamese Abroad Centre (2018-20). Liệu Hữu Lê, who is affectionately known as 'the cowboy poet' amongst Centre members, was one of...
Anh Sơn Nguyễn (Sean Nguyen)
Photograph of Anh Sơn Nguyễn (Sean Nguyen), secretary general of the Vietnamese Abroad Centre (2018-20). Nguyen was one of the main organisors of a literary camp held by the...
Vietnamese Abroad Centre's 40th anniversary
Photograph of guests at a gala held to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Vietnamese Abroad Centre. This event, which was held in Washington on 31 March 2018, was...
Centre's 11th Congress in Toronto
Collage of photographs of members of the Vietnamese Abroad Centre at the Centre's 11th Congress, which was held in Toronto on 15-17 December 2017. Lloyd Duong, president of the...
Tuyết Nga Thị Nguyễn
Photograph of Tuyết Nga Thị Nguyễn, treasurer of the Vietnamese Abroad Centre (2018-20). Nguyễn, whose pen-name is Tuyết Nga, is affectionately known as Nụ cười Văn Bút - 'the...
Dương Thành Lợi (Lloyd Duong)
Photograph of Dương Thành Lợi (Lloyd Duong), president of the Vietnamese Abroad Centre (2018-20). Upon becoming president, Lloyd Duong, who left Vietnam as a refugee when he was a...
Nguyễn Đăng Tuấn
Photograph of Nguyễn Đăng Tuấn, president of the Vietnamese Abroad Centre (2009-11).
Vũ Văn Tùng
Photograph of Vũ Văn Tùng, president of the Vietnamese Abroad Centre (2011-17). During his presidency the author and pharmacist Vũ Văn Tùng received charity status for Centre.
Duong assists Tai A Chau
Photograph of Lloyd Duong (Dương Thành Lợi), president of the Vietnamese Abroad Centre (2018-20), interviewing Tai A Chau, a Vietnamese asylum seeker living in a detention centre in Hong...
Viên Linh
Photograph of Viên Linh (pen-name of Nguyễn Nam), president of the Vietnamese Abroad Centre (1993-95). In 1974 Viên Linh won the Vietnam National Literature Prize for his novel Gió...
Phạm Quang Trình
Photograph of Phạm Quang Trình, president of the Vietnamese Abroad Centre (2003-05).
Nguyễn Ngọc Ngạn
Photograph of Nguyễn Ngọc Ngạn, president of the Vietnamese Abroad Centre (1989-90). During his presidency the author and media personality Nguyễn Ngọc Ngạn helped to formulate the Centre’s by-laws...
Trang Châu Lê Văn Châu
Photograph of Trang Châu Lê Văn Châu (Trang Châu), president of the Vietnamese Abroad Centre (1991-92). In the 1980s Lê Văn Châu volunteered in missions to help refugees leaving...
Lloyd Duong as a young man
Photograph of Dương Thành Lợi (Lloyd Duong), president of the Vietnamese Abroad Centre (2018-20) at aged fourteen. Lloyd Duong left Vietnam on a small boat with twenty-six other refugees...
Trần Thanh Hiệp
Photograph of Trần Thanh Hiệp, president of the Vietnamese Abroad Centre (1984-88). During his presidency the writer and attorney Trần Thanh Hiệp expanded the Vietnamese Abroad Centre by bringing...
The Government Palace in Ulaanbaatar
Photograph of the Ural-Altay PEN Network members taken on 7 July 2011 in front of the Government Palace building, in Ulaanbaatar, city where the 3rd Ural-Altay PEN solidarity network...
Ural-Altay PEN Network members in Ulaanbaatar
Photograph of the Ural-Altay PEN Network members taken on 7 July 2011 in front of the Government Palace building, in Ulaanbaatar, city where the 3rd Ural-Altay PEN solidarity network...
Participants at the 3rd Ural-Altay PEN Network Conference in Mongolia
Photograph of the participants at the 3rd Ural-Altay PEN solidarity network Conference, which took place on 2-8 July 2011 in Ulaanbaatar/Höshöö Tsaidam. This conference gathered speakers of the Ural-Altaic...
Ural-Altay PEN Network members in Mongolia
Photograph of the Ural-Altay PEN Network members taken on 2 July 2011, most likely in the Orkhon Valley, during the 3rd Ural-Altay PEN solidarity network Conference, which took place...
The «La Richesse» Museum in Bakhchysarai
Photograph of the participants at the 4th Ural-Altay PEN solidarity network Conference in front of the Музей «Ларишес» («La Richesse» Museum), which exhibits Crimean Tatar antiquities, in Bakhchysarai. The...
Uyghur Centre members in Crimea
Photograph of members of the Uyghur Centre, most likely taken during the 4th Ural-Altay PEN solidarity network Conference, which took place in Simferopol on 17-21 June 2012. This conference...
Takeaki, Abdurusul and Ralston Saul in Crimea
Photograph taken on 19 June 2012, during the 4th Ural-Altay PEN solidarity network Conference, which took place on 17-21 June 2012 in Simferopol. From left to right: Takeaki Hori,...
Participants at the 4th Ural-Altay PEN Network Conference in Simferopol
Photograph of the participants at the 4th Ural-Altay PEN solidarity network Conference, which took place on 17-21 June 2012 in Simferopol. Standing in the middle of the photograph, with...
Uyghur Centre in Bakhchysarai
Photograph of members of the Uyghur Centre taken in the town of Bakhchysarai during the 4th Ural-Altay PEN solidarity network Conference, which took place on 17-21 June 2012 in...
Hemrayew and Elkun in Budapest
Photograph of Hamit Hemrayew, president of the Uyghur Centre (2014-), on the right, and Aziz Isa Elkun, secretary of the Uyghur Centre (2017-), during the 2nd Congress of the...
The Uyghur Centre in Budapest
Photograph of members of the Uyghur Centre taken during the 2nd Congress of the Uyghur Centre, which happened simultaneously with the Ural-Altay PEN Network Conference on 20-24 February 2011...
Uyghur Centre's second Congress
Photograph of the participants at the 2nd Congress of the Uyghur Centre, which was held simultaneously with the Ural-Altay PEN Network Conference on 20-24 February 2011 in Budapest. In...
Abdurusul and Elkun defend Nurmuhemmet Yasin
Photograph of Kaiser Abdurusul, president of the Uyghur Centre (2006-14), on the left, and Aziz Isa Elkun, secretary of the Uyghur Centre (2017-) posing in front of a banner...
The Uyghur Centre in Mongolia
Photograph of members of the Uyghur Centre posing in the Orkhon Valley on 2 July 2011. The Uyghur Centre was participating in the 3rd Ural-Altay PEN solidarity network Conference...
The 1st Ural-Altay PEN network Conference in Istanbul
Photograph of the participants at the 1st Ural-Altay PEN solidarity network Conference that took place in Istanbul, in the summer 2009. On the front row, first to the left...
The first issue of the Uyghur PEN Magazine
Front cover of the Uyghur PEN Magazine, no. 1 (January 2013): 100. This is the front cover of the first issue of the Uyghur PEN Magazine, published by the...
Promotional video for Lviv Congress
Video created by the Urkainian Centre for the 83rd PEN International Congress in Lviv, Ukraine, which was held on 18-22 September 2017 and titled Reclaiming Truth in Times...
Postcards supporting Ukrainian writers
Collection of flyers (called 'postcards' in PEN campaigns) created by the Ukrainian Centre in support of four cases of persecuted Ukrainian writers: Mykola Semena, Oleg Sentsov, Roman Suschenko, and...
Best Ukrainian Books in 2019
Brochure created by the Ukrainian Centre in 2019 titled PEN Ukraine's List of Best Ukrainian Books in 2019, ff. 8. This brochure, which is written in English and has...
Flyer on Sentsov's hunger strike
Flyer (known as 'postcards' in PEN campaigns) created by Ukrainian Centre in September 2018 as part of PEN International's global campaign calling for the liberation of the Ukrainian filmmaker...
Leben: Geschichten by Oleg Sentsov
Front cover of Sentsov, Oleg. Leben: Geschichten. Berlin: Voland & Quist, 2019. This German edition of a book of short stories by Oleg Sentsov was published by Voland &...
Empty Chair Campaign in Kyiv
Photograph of the Ukrainian Centre's Empty Chair Campaign, which was staged in Mykhailivska Square in Kyiv on 15 November 2018 - the date of the annually observed Day of...
Demonstration for Sentsov in Lviv
Photograph of Ukrainian Centre members taking part in a demonstration organised by the Centre that was held during the 2018 Lviv Book Forum, which took place on 19-23 September...
Gudziak recieves Vasyl Stus Award
Photograph of Mykola Riabchuk (on the left), honorary president of the Ukrainian Centre, awarding Borys Gudziak (on the right), Archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Philadelphia (2019-), the...
83rd PEN Congress opening ceremony
Photograph of PEN delegates at the opening cerermony of 83rd PEN International Congress in Lviv, Ukraine, which was held on 18-22 September 2017 and titled Reclaiming Truth in...
Speakers at Free The Word!
Photograph of speakers at a Free The Word! event that was held by the Ugandan Centre at Kyambogo University (KYU) in Kampala, most likely in 2017.
83rd PEN Congress closing ceremony
Photograph of PEN delegates gathered for a group photograph at the 83rd PEN International Congress in Lviv, Ukraine, which was held on 18-22 September 2017 and titled Reclaiming...
Performance at Free The Word!
Photograph of students performing at a Free The Word! event that was held by the Ugandan Centre at Kyambogo University in Kampala (KYU), most likely in 2017.
Student performance at Free The Word!
Photograph of students performing at a Free The Word! event that was held by the Ugandan Centre at Kyambogo University in Kampala (KYU), most likely in 2017.
Audience at Free The Word!
Photograph of students of Kyambogo University (KYU) in Kampala at a Free The Word! event that was held by the Ugandan Centre, most likely in 2017.
Free The Word! speaker
Photograph of a speaker at a Free The Word! event that was held by the Ugandan Centre at Kyambogo University (KYU) in Kampala, most likely in 2017.
Free The Word! at Kyambogo University
Photograph of a Free The Word! event underway at Kyambogo University (KYU) in Kampala, organised by the Ugandan Centre and most likely held in 2017.
Students at Free The Word!
Photograph of students of Kyambogo University (KYU) in Kampala at a Free The Word! event that was held by the Ugandan Centre, most likely in 2017.
The Ugandan PEN (December 2004)
Cover of The Ugandan PEN Vol. 3, no. 1 (December 2004): 1. This issue of the Ugandan Centre's newsletter features an opening article by Danson Kahyana, president of the...
The Ugandan PEN (December 2003)
Cover of The Ugandan PEN Vol. 2, no. 2 (December 2003): 1. This issue of the Ugandan Centre's newsletter features an opening article by Danson Kahyana, president of the...
The Ugandan PEN (January 2003)
Cover of The Ugandan PEN Vol. 2, no. 1 (January 2003): 1. This issue of the Ugandan Centre's newsletter features an opening article by Danson Kahyana, president of the...
Delegates at 83rd PEN Congress
Photograph of delegates at the 83rd PEN International Congress in Lviv, Ukraine, which was held on 18-22 September 2017. From left to right are: Bêrîvan Doskî, vice-president (2013-16) co-president...
The Ugandan PEN (August 2003)
Cover of The Ugandan PEN Vol. 2, no. 1 (August 2003): 1. This issue of the Ugandan Centre's newsletter features an opening article by Danson Kahyana, president of the...
Turkish Centre Board 2018-20
Photograph of the Executive Board of the Turkish Centre, 2018-20. From left to right back to front, with their corresponding positions for this term, are: Haydar Ergülen, Board member;...
Turkish Centre delegation at 82nd Congress
Photograph of Turkish Centre delegates at the 82nd PEN International Congress in Ourense, Spain, which was held from 26 September to 2 October 2016. From left to right are:...
Cover of Canımı Yakma!
Front cover of Çay, Merve, ed. Canımı Yakma! (Don’t Hurt Me!). Istanbul: Kırmızı Kedi Yayınları, 2016. This anthology, which was created by the Turkish Centre with support from the...
Toni Morrison
Photograph of the Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, member of the American Centre and vice-president of PEN International, on a flyer (known as 'postcards' in PEN campaigns) created by the...
Emine and Maside Ocak are awarded
Photograph of two members of Cumartesi Anneleri, 'The Saturday Mothers' - a group of human rights defenders - receiving the 2019 PEN Duygu Asena Award at a ceremony held...
2019 PEN Duygu Asena Award
Photograph of members of the Turkish Centre and members of Cumartesi Anneleri, 'The Saturday Mothers', onstage at the 2019 PEN Duygu Asena Awards ceremony, which was held at Tiyatro...
Tarık Günersel
Photograph of Tarık Günersel, Board member of PEN International (2010-12) and president of the Turkish Centre (2007-09), at the 76th PEN International Congress in Tokyo, Japan, which was held...
Cengiz Bektaş receieves 2018 Poetry Award
Photogaph of participants of a ceremony held in Istanbul on 21 March 2018, World Poetry Day, to award Cengiz Bektaş the Turkish Centre's 2018 PEN Poetry Award. From left...
Tülin Dursun and Dauji Gupta
Photograph of Tülin Dursun, on the right, general secretary of the Turkish Centre (2015-), and Dauji Gupta, president of the All-India Centre, on the left. This photograph was taken...