PEN, ICORN, and Eaten Fish
Photograph of PEN and ICORN (International Cities of Refuge Network) members with Iranian cartoonist Ali Dorani (known as 'Eaten Fish') outside PEN International's former offices in London in 2018....
PEN Emergency Fund members in Spain
Photograph of members of the PEN Emergency Fund in Ourense for the 82nd PEN International Congress held there on 26 September to 2 October 2016 under the title Building...
Nadine Gordimer at home
Photograph of PEN members with Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer (third from the right at the front), former vice-president of PEN International, in the garden of her home in Johannesburg...
Panel discussion at United Nations
Photograph of a panel discussion held at the United Nations Office in Geneva in 2011. From left to right are: Alexis Krikorian, director of Freedom to Publish at the...
Ron Butlin on Day of the Imprisoned Writer
Photograph of the Scottish author Ron Butlin taking part in a protest event held outside Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh on PEN International's Day of the Imprisoned Writer, 15 November,...
Swedish Centre's letter-writing session
Photograph of PEN members at a letter-writing session organised by the Swedish Centre for PEN International's Day of the Imprisoned writer on 15 November 2011. Among them is Eugene...
First Day of the Dead event in London
Photograph of PEN members at the inaugural protest event held for PEN International's Day of the Dead. On 2 November 2011, members of the public, members of staff from...
Xiaobo bookstand at Tokyo Congress
Photograph of a stand set up to sell books by Liu Xiaobo, co-founder and president of the Independent Chinese Centre (2003-07), at the 76th PEN International Congress in Tokyo,...
Krikorian, Onderoglu and Whyatt at the UN
Photograph of human rights defenders outside the United Nations Office at Geneva in 2010. From left to right are: Alexis Krikorian, director of Freedom to Publish at the International...
Liu Xiaobo's Nobel Prize ceremony
Photograph of Salil Shetty, on the left, Secretary General of Amnesty International (2010-18), and John Ralston Saul, on the right, president of PEN International (2009-15) at the Nobel Prize...
Liu Xiaobo's Nobel empty chair
Photograph of an empty chair in transit to the Nobel Prize ceremony held at Oslo City Hall in Norway on 10 December 2010. This chair was sent to the...
PEN members at UNESCO
Photograph of PEN members outside the UNESCO headquarters in Paris in 2007. From left to right are: Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, international secretary (2004-07) and vice-president emeritus of PEN International; Eugene...
Stoppard, Gruša and Stránský in Prague
Photograph of members of the Czech Centre in Prague in 2005. From left to right are: Tom Stoppard; Jiří Gruša, president of PEN International (2003-09); and Jiří Stránský, president...
Shafak, Whyatt, Leedom-Ackerman
Photograph of PEN members at a meeting held before the 2007 Gathering in Istanbul for Freedom of Expression. From left to right are: the British-Turkish writer Elif Shafak, who...
PEN meeting in Cairo
Photograph of PEN members gathered in Cairo for a meeting held there in 2006. Among them are: Ekbal Baraka, end on the left at the back, president of the...
Şanar Yurdatapan at Istanbul University rally
Photograph of the Turkish journalist Şanar Yurdatapan speaking at a protest rally held at Istanbul University on 11 March 1997. Standing just behind Yurdatapan is Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, international secretary...
Leedom-Ackerman at Istanbul Conference
Photograph of Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, international secretary (2004-07) and vice-president emeritus of PEN International, speaking on the panel of the Initiative for Freedom of Expression during a conference at the...
Women Writers Committee at Asia conference
Photograph of the Women Writers Committee at the 2007 International PEN Asia and Pacific Regional Conference, which was held in Hong Kong on 2-5 February 2007. Among them are:...
Rally at Istanbul University
Photograph of Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, international secretary (2004-07) and vice-president emeritus of PEN International, speaking at a protest rally held at Istanbul University on 11 March 1997. To Leedom-Ackerman's left...
PEN members at Istanbul University rally
Photograph of PEN members at a protest rally held at Istanbul University on 11 March 1997. Among them are: Alexander Tkachenko, founding member and general secretary of the Russian...
PEN Board Meeting in Vienna
Photograph of members at a PEN International Board meeting that was held in Vienna in January 2007. Among them are: Eugene Schoulgin, end on the left, member of the...
Press conference in Foreign Correspondents' Club
Photograph of panellists at a press conference held at the Foreign Correspondents' Club in Hong Kong during the 2007 International PEN Asia and Pacific Regional Conference, which was held...
PEN Conference in Accra
Photograph of PEN members at a conference held in Accra in 2005 in preparation for the 73rd PEN International Congress in Dakar, Senegal, 4-7 July 2007, titled The World...
Members during conference in Accra
Photograph of PEN members at a conference held in Accra in 2005 in preparation for the 73rd PEN International Congress in Senegal, 4-7 July 2007, titled The World and...
Hasenkeyf before the floods
Photograph of the ancient town of Hasenkeyf in Turkey in 2005. In this year a delegation from PEN International visted Turkey for the International PEN Diyarbakir Seminar on Cultural...
Dinner at the Guadalajara Book Fair
Photograph of PEN members at a dinner held during the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL Guadalajara) in 2006. Seated from left to right are: the Mexican-American filmmaker Moisés Zamora;...
Conference in Accra
Photograph of PEN members at a conference held in Accra in 2005 in preparation for the 73rd PEN International Congress in Dakar, Senegal, 4-7 July 2007, titled The World...
Writers and PEN members in Hasenkeyf
Photograph of PEN members with Kurdish and Turkish writers gathered in the ancient town of Hasenkeyf, Turkey, in March 2005. Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, international secretary (2004-07) and vice-president emeritus of...
PEN members in Hasenkeyf
Photograph of members from PEN International and the Kurdish and Turkish Centres gathered in the ancient town of Hasenkeyf, Turkey, in March 2005. The three delegates standing at the...
Spender and Leedom-Ackermann in Turkey
Photograph of Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, on the left, international secretary (2004-07) and vice-president emeritus of PEN International, with Jane Spender, on the right, programme director at PEN International (1997-2009) and...
Performer at PEN Congress in Senegal
Photograph of a performer at the 73rd PEN International Congress in Dakar, Senegal, which was held on 4-11 July 2007 and titled The World and Human Values.
H. G. Wells
Photograph of H. G. Wells (second from the left), president of PEN International (1933-36) and PEN's Wartime International Presidential Committee (1941-46). This photograph was most likely taken when Wells...
Performance at PEN Congress in Senegal
Photograph of a performance taking place during the 73rd PEN International Congress in Dakar, Senegal, which was held on 4-11 July 2007 and titled The World and Human Values.
Bill and Kathy Barazetti
Photograph of Bill Barazetti, international treasurer of PEN International (1991-96) holding his daughter Kathy, who went on to be a finance administrator at PEN International in the 2000s. Bill...
Galsworthy, Dawson-Scott and Ould
Photograph of three core and founding members of PEN in the late 1920s. From left to right are: John Galsworthy, first president of PEN International and the English Centre...
Committee meeting at the 71st Congress
Photograph of a Committee meeting, most likely the Writers in Prison Committee, taken on 16 June 2005 during the 71st PEN International Congress, which took place on 14-21 June...
Ljubljana Castle reception
Photograph of delegates attending a reception at Ljubljana Castle, on 17 June 2005, during the 71st PEN International Congress, which took place on 14-21 June 2005 in Bled, and...
Takeaki and delegates in Bled
Photograph of Takeaki Hori, international secretary of PEN International (2010-16), standing on the right, with delegates who attended the 71st PEN International Congress, which took place on 14-21 June...
Panel at the 71st Congress
Photograph of a panel at the 71st PEN International Congress, which took place on 14-21 June 2005 in Bled, and was titled The Tower of Babel: a Blessing or...
Delegates of the African Centres in Bled
Photograph of delegates from African Centres in conversation during the 71st PEN International Congress, which took place on 14-21 June 2005 in Bled, and was titled The Tower of...
Welcoming party at Bled Castle
Photograph of delegates attending a welcoming party at Bled Castle on 14 June 2005, during the 71st PEN International Congress, which took place on 14-21 June 2005 in Bled,...
Delegates at the welcoming party in Bled
Photograph of delegates attending a welcoming party at Bled Castle on 14 June 2005, during the 71st PEN International Congress, which took place on 14-21 June 2005 in Bled,...
Bled Island during the 71st Congress
Photograph of the Church of the Mother of God on the lake, Bled Island, taken during the 71st PEN International Congress, which took place on 14-21 June 2005 in...
Lucina Kathmann and Eric Lax in Bled
Photograph of Lucina Katmann, former president of the San Miguel de Allende Centre, vice-president emerita of PEN International (2003-) and chair of the Women Writers Committee (1996-2000), on the...
Delegates at Bled Castle
Photograph of delegates attending a welcoming party at Bled Castle on 14 June 2005, during the 71st PEN International Congress, which took place on 14-21 June 2005 in Bled,...
Per Wästberg at the 43rd Congress
Photograph of Per Wästberg, president of PEN International (1979-86;1989-90), first on the right, during the 43rd PEN International Congress which took place on 21-27 May 1978 in Stockholm, and...
Hans Magnus Enzensberger at the 43rd Congress
Photograph of German poet, writer and editor Hans Magnus Enzensberger, first on the left, taken during the 43rd PEN International Congress which took place on 21-27 May 1978 in...
Takeaki, Dussault and Jolicoeur in Ourense
Photograph of PEN members during the 82nd PEN International Congress, which took place from 26 September to 2 October 2016 in Ourense and was titled Building literary bridges. From...
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman at the 73rd Congress
Photograph of Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, international secretary (2004-07) and vice-president emeritus of PEN International, speaking to the Assembly of Delegates during the 73rd PEN International Congress, which took place on...
Heinrich Böll at the 43rd Congress
Photograph of Heinrich Böll, president of PEN International (1971-74), in the middle, during the 43rd PEN International Congress which took place on 21-27 May 1978 in Stockholm, and was...
Global Language Park delegates messages
Photograph of delegates signing a billboard, at the Savitribai Phule Pune University, on 28 September 2018, as part of the Global Language Park project, where every Centre planted a...
TLRC presentation in Ourense
Photograph of a panel given by the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee (TLRC) during the 82nd PEN International Congress, which took place from 26 September to 2 October 2016...
Clement, Sönmez and Kaldmaa in Lviv
Photograph of Jennifer Clement, president of the Mexican Centre (2009-12) and president of PEN International (2015-), Burhan Sönmez, Board member of PEN International (2018-), and Kätlin Kaldmaa, president of...
Attendance to a panel at the 83rd Congress
Photograph of delegates attending a panel at the Lviv University during the 83rd PEN International Congress, which took place on 18-22 September 2017, in Lviv, and was titled Reclaiming...
Minute of silence in Pune
Photograph of delegates observing a minute of silence at the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi, in the gardens of the Aga Khan Palace in Pune, during the 84th PEN International...
Simona Škrabec's report at the 82nd Congress
Photograph of Simona Škrabec, chair of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee (2014-20), giving her report at the 82nd PEN International Congress, which took place from 26 September to...
Sara Whyatt and John R. Saul at the 56th Congress
Photograph of Sara Whyatt, programme director (1990-2013) and interim executive director (2010-11) of PEN International, and John Ralston Saul, president of the Canadian Centre (1990-92) and president of PEN...
Delegates at the 2006 Berlin Congress
Photograph of the delegates at the 72nd PEN International Congress in Berlin, which took place on 22-28 May 2006 and was titled Writing in a World Without Peace. This...
Angela Merkel's speech at the 72nd Congress
Photograph taken on 24 May 2006 of Angela Merkel giving a speech in front of the PEN Centres delegates at the Federal Chancellery during the 72nd PEN International Congress...
International secretary candidates at the 73rd Congress
Photograph of the candidates to the international secretary of PEN International position taken during the 73rd PEN International Congress, which took place on 4-11 July 2007 in Dakar and...
Grass and Aridjis at the 72nd Congress
Photograph of Nobel of Literature Günter Grass, facing the camera, on the left, and Homero Aridjis, president of PEN International (1997-2003), standing, during the 72nd PEN International Congress in...
Günter Grass with delegates at the 72nd Congress
Photograph of Nobel of Literature Günter Grass, third from the right, surrounded by PEN delegates during the 72nd PEN International Congress in Berlin, which took place on 22-28 May...
Günter Grass at the 72nd Congress
Photograph of Nobel of Literature Günter Grass pronouncing a keynote speech during the 72nd PEN International Congress in Berlin, which took place on 22-28 May 2006 and was titled...
Delegates at the 72nd Congress in Berlin
Photograph of the delegates attending the 72nd PEN International Congress in Berlin, which took place on 22-28 May 2006 and was titled Writing in a World Without Peace. Among...
Free the Word! at the 85th Congress
Photograph of the Free the Word! event, which took place at the Cultural Centre of the Philippines, in Manila, on 2 October 2019 during the 85th PEN International Congress,...
Francisco Sionil José at the National Museum of the Philippines
Photograph of Francisco Sionil José, founder and first president of the Philippines Centre, on the left, Komal Bahadur Chitrakar, member of the Nepalese Centre, in the middle, and Marianne...
Words Crossing Worlds: Translation/Transliteration panel
Photograph taken during the panel titled Words Crossing Worlds: Translation/Transliteration, which took place at the National Museum of the Philippines on 3 October 2019 during the 85th PEN International...
Škrabec at UN panel discussion
Photograph of a panel discussion held at the United Nations headquarters in New York on 11 December 2019. This event, titled #ProtectLinguists, aimed to raise awareness of the pressing...
Writing the Future in Indigenous Languages' poster
Poster for a Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee meeting titled Writing the Future in Indigenous Languages that was held in San Cristóbal de las Casas in Chiapas, Mexico, on...
Enriqueta Lunez gives the keynote speech
Photograph of the poet Enriqueta Lunez giving the keynote speech at a Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee meeting titled Writing the Future in Indigenous Languages that was held in...
Nina Jaramillo at Chiapas meeting
Photograph of Nina Jaramillo, chair of the Argentinian Centre's Committee of Writers in Indigenous Languages, speaking at a Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee meeting titled Writing the Future in...
Chiapas TLRC meeting group photograph
Photograph of delegates at a Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee meeting titled Writing the Future in Indigenous Languagesthat was held in San Cristóbal de las Casas in Chiapas, Mexico,...
Presenting resolution on Philippines languages
Photograph of nine delegates from different islands and areas of the archipelago of the Phillipines presenting the Resolution on the Promotion of Language Justice and the Protection of the...
TLRC meeting in Chiapas
Photograph of members of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee at a meeting titled Writing the Future in Indigenous Languages that was held in San Cristóbal de las Casas...
Fernand de Varennes at Manila Congress
Photograph of Fernand de Varennes, UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues (2017-), giving the keynote speech at the 85th PEN International Congress in Manila, Philippines, which was held from...
Panel discussion at Manila Congress
Photograph of a panel discussion titled Writing the Future in Indigenous Languages underway on the first day of the 85th PEN International Congress in Manila, Philippines, which was held...
Bhasha wari in India
Photograph of students taking part in Bhasha wari, a procession in which the words ‘Truth, Freedom, Diversity’ were presented in 6,000 languages on signs to celebrate global languages. PEN...
Bhasha wari for global languages
Photograph of students taking part in Bhasha wari, a procession in which the words ‘Truth, Freedom, Diversity’ were presented in 6,000 languages on signs to celebrate global languages. PEN...
Celebrating Yiddish at Basha wari
Photograph of participants holding a sign to champion Yiddish at Bhasha wari, a procession in which the words ‘Truth, Freedom, Diversity’ were presented in 6,000 languages on signs to...
Torner speaking during the 84th Congress
Photograph of Carles Torner, executive director of PEN International (2014-20) and chair of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee (1996-2002), speaking at a panel event during the 84th PEN...
Speed dating event in Pune
Photograph of a 'speed dating' event between translators and authors that took place at the 84th PEN International Congress in Pune, India, which was held on 25-29 September 2018...
Lokdun presenting at TLRC meeting
Photograph of Lokdun, vice-president of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre (2016-22), presenting at panel event during a meeting of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee held in Biel/Bienne on...
Freedom of Expression panel in Biel/Bienne
Photograph of members who spoke on a panel about Freedom of Expression and Linguistic Rights at a meeting of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee held in Biel/Bienne on...
Zaw Tun honours Alix Parodi
Photograph of Zaw Tun, chair of the Myanmar Centre's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee, on the right, honouring Alix Parodi, secretary general and treasurer (2016-21) and president of the...
Diagana presents Soninké poetry anthology
Photograph of Kissima Diagana, member of the Mauritanian Centre, presenting an anthology of Soninké poetry at a meeting of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee that was held in...
Panel on linguistic rights in Africa
Photograph of a panel about linguistic rights in Africa that took place during a meeting of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee held in Biel/Bienne on 21-24 June 2018....
Simona Škrabec signs Donostia Protocol
Photograph of Simona Škrabec, chair of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee (2014-20), signing the Donostia Protocol to Ensure Language Rights. The Donostia Protocol is a tool developed by...
TLRC in Diyarbakir-Amed
Photograph of members of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee in Diyarbakir-Amed in 2005. The TLRC met in Turkey for The International PEN Diyarbakir Seminar on Cultural Diversity, which...
PEN Diyarbakir Seminar
Photograph of the panel at The International PEN Diyarbakir Seminar on Cultural Diversity, which was organised by PEN International in collaboration with the Kurdish Centre and held in Diyarbakir-Amed...
TLRC meeting in Bengaluru
Photograph of a meeting of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee that was held on 26-29 April 2017 in Bengaluru, India. This meeting led to the creation of the...
Launching the Donostia Protocol
Photograph of the organising committee at the launch of the Donostia Protocol to Ensure Language Rights - a tool developed by organisations including PEN International, Linguapax, the European Language...
Students with Marita Banda
Photograph of students from the PEN club of Munali Secondary School representing their school at an interschool essay writing competition ceremony held at Lusaka Civic Centre in Lusaka (most...
Banda at African Regional Network Meeting
Photograph of Marita Banda, a poet in the Tumbuka language and project co-ordinator of the Zambian Centre's Civil Society Project, speaking at the African Regional Network Meeting held in...
Port Harcourt Book Festival panel
Photograph of the panel at a PEN event held during the 2014 edition of Port Harcourt Book Festival (UNESCO World Book Capital 2014) titled What Language Means to Literature:...
Women's Day panel in Johannesburg
Photograph of the Womens’s Day panel at a meeting of the PEN African Network and PEN International's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee, which took place in Johannesburg on 10-11...
Diarra, Mintegi and Abraham in Johannesburg
Photograph of panellists at a meeting of the PEN African Network and PEN International's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee, which took place in Johannesburg on 10-11 March 2016. From...
TLRC meeting in Johannesburg
Photograph of delegates at a meeting of the PEN African Network and PEN International's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee, which took place in Johannesburg on 10-11 March 2016. From...
TLRC delegates in Johannesburg
Photograph of Centre delegates at a meeting of the PEN African Network and PEN International's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee, which took place in Johannesburg on 10-11 March 2016....
Closing of the Johannesburg meeting
Photograph of delegates at the closing ceremony of a meeting of the PEN African Network and PEN International's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee, which took place in Johannesburg on...
Martxelo Otamendi in Barcelona
Photograph of Martxelo Otamendi, former director of the Basque newspaper Egunkaria and a PEN main case, at a meeting between civil society organisations that was held in Barcelona in...
Panel at the 79th Congress
Photograph of the panel at the 79th PEN International Congress in Reykjavík, which was held on 9-12 September 2013 and titled Digital Frontiers: Linguistic Rights and Freedom of Speech....
Protest for Egunkaria
Photograph of demonstrators at a protest held outside the offices of the Basque newspaper Egunkaria on 20 February 2013, the day the newspaper was forcibly shut down. Egunkaria, which...
Smith and Otamendi in Barcelona
Photograph of a meeting between civil society organisations that was held in Barcelona in 2004. Seated at the panel table are Joan Smith (second from the left), former chair...
TLRC members at Girona Meeting
Photograph of Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee members in Girona for a meeting held there on 11-13 May 2011, at which the Girona Manifesto on Linguistic Rights was signed....
Jolicoeur and Samba Traoré in Johannesburg
Photograph of Louis Jolicoeur (on the right), chair of the Quebecois Centre's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee (2019-21), speaking about the Quebec Declaration on Literary Translation and Translators at...
Isidor Cònsul, chair of the TLRC
Photograph of Isidor Cònsul, chair of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee (1993-96), seated here between Aureli Argení, founder of CIEMEN (on the left) and Susana Cuevas from Mexico’s...
The World Conference on Linguistic Rights
Photograph of delegates from 61 NGOs and 41 PEN Centres, as well as 40 global experts in linguistic rights, at the World Conference on Linguistic Rights, which was held...
Per Wästberg and Wole Soyinka
Photograph of Per Wästberg, president of PEN International (1979-86), on the left, welcoming PEN Centre delegates to the 43rd PEN International Congress in Stockholm, which was held on 21-27...
Carles Torner presents the UDLR
Photograph of Carles Torner, executive director of PEN International (2014-20) and chair of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee (1996-2002), presenting the Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights at the...
Parkhomenko and Azhgihina's report of free speech in Lviv
Photograph of Sergey Parkhomenko, member of the Moscow Centre, and Nadezhda Azhgihina, director of the Moscow Centre, presenting the report Russia's Strident Stifling of Free Speech during the 83rd...