Catharine Amy Dawson Scott

Portrait of Catharine Amy Dawson Scott, founder of PEN International. Dawson-Scott founded PEN in London in October 1921, enlisting a group of fellow writers to join her in creating...
Portrait of Hermon Ould

Portrait of Hermon Ould, first secretary of the English Centre (1921-51) international secretary of PEN International (1926-51) and president of PEN International (1941-47). The poet and dramatist Hermon Ould...
Tibetan woman by Dolma Kyab

Painting of a Tibetan nomadic woman by Dolma Kyab (pen-name Lobsang Kelsang Gyatso), completed whilst he was imprisoned in Chushur Prison in northern Lhasa. Kyab, a Tibetan writer and...
Dame Mary Gilmore

Portrait of Dame Mary Gilmore extracted from a larger painting by William Dobell in 1957. Mary Gilmore, along with Ethel Turner and Dorothea Mackellar, founded the Sydney Centre in...
Painting of Oleg Sentsov

Painting of the Ukranian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov by the American artist Molly Crabapple, which was created as part of the American Centre's 2017 campaign calling for Senstov's release. In...