Shirin Ebadi in Bled
Photograph of PEN members listening to Shirin Ebadi, first Iranian and first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, speaking during the 50th meeting of the Writers for...
The WfPC at the 82nd Congress
Photograph of the participants in the Writers for Peace Committee meeting, which had taken place in Amed/Diyarbakir in April 2016, presenting their conclusions to the delegates of the 82nd...
Panel on freedom of expression at the 80th Congress
Photograph taken during a panel on the freedom of expression in the context of the Russian aggression of Crimea and the Donbass, which took place during the 80th PEN...
Goran Simić
Photograph of Bosnian poet Goran Simić, laureate of the PEN Freedom to Write Award 1994. Simić was one of the many writers who got trapped in Sarajevo as a...
Tvrtko Kulenović
Photograph of Tvrtko Kulenović, founder and first president of the Bosnian-Herzegovina Centre (1992-96).
Alain Finkielkraut at the 59th Congress
Photograph of French writer, philosopher and essayist Alain Finkielkraut, speaking during the 59th PEN International Congress, which took place on 19-24 April 1993 in Dubrovnik.
Writers for Peace Committee meeting 2018
Photograph of Writers for Peace Committee's members gathered for a formal session during the 50th meeting of the Writers for Peace Committee, which took place on 18-21 April 2018...
Ferida Duraković
Photograph of Bosnian writer Ferida Duraković taken during a panel which took place at the EBRD Annual Meeting & Business Forum on 9 May 2019 in Sarajevo. Through the...
Discussion on anti-nuclear efforts
Photograph taken during a discussion which led to the drafting of a resolution against nuclear weapons, during the 50th meeting of the Writers for Peace Committee, which took place...
Malick Diarra and Jennifer Clement
Photograph of Malick Diarra, vice-president of the French Centre, on the left, and Jennifer Clement, president of Mexican Centre (2009-12) and president of PEN International (2015-), taken during the...
Protest for Liu Xiaobo in Oslo
Photograph of an image of Liu Xiaobo projected onto buildings in Oslo, Norway, above protestors campaigning for his freedom during the Nobel Prize Ceremony held at the Oslo City...
Shahidul Alam at At Home Everywhere
Photograph of the activist and photographer Shahidul Alam speaking at a conference that was co-organised by the Writers in Prison Committee and ICORN, which was held in Rotterdam...
Hamid's tribute to Chenjerai Hove
Photograph of Abazar A. Bagi Hamid performing at a tribute to Chenjerai Hove, which took place during a meeting co-organised by the Writers in Prison Committee and ICORN held...
Panel at Rotterdam ICORN meeting
Photograph of a panel event taking place during a meeting co-organised by the Writers in Prison Committee and ICORN, which was held in Rotterdam on 29-31 May 2019 under...
Salil Tripathi and Shahidul Alam
Photograph of Salil Tripathi, on the left, Board member of the English centre (2009-13) and chair of the Writers in Prison Committee (2015-), and the activist and photographer Shahidul...
Panel in Lillehammer ICORN meeting
Photograph of panellists at a conference held during a meeting co-organised by the Writers in Prison Committee and ICORN, which was held in Lillehammer from 31 May to 2...
Eide, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, and Torner
Photograph of PEN members attending a meeting co-organised by the Writers in Prison Committee and ICORN, which was held in Lillehammer from 31 May to 2 June 2017 under...
Zineb El Rhazoui at joint assembly
Photograph of Zineb El Rhazoui, former columnist at Charlie Hebdo (2011-17), speaking during the joint assembly of a meeting co-organised by the Writers in Prison Committee and ICORN and...
Zineb El Rhazoui at ICORN meeting
Photograph of Zineb El Rhazoui, former columnist at Charlie Hebdo (2011-17), speaking during the joint assembly of a meeting co-organised by PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee and ICORN...
Committee in Bruges
Photograph of the committee who drafted the new Regulations and Rules of Procedure for PEN International (1996-98) meeting in Bruges in 1997. From left to right are: Carles Torner,...
Nawzat Shamdin and Basim Mardan
Photograph of panellists at a meeting co-organised by PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee and ICORN and hosted by the Netherlands Centre, which was held in Amsterdam on 26-28...
Charlie Hebdo tribute
Photograph of John Ralston Saul, president of PEN International (2009-15), on the left, and Carles Torner, executive director of PEN International (2014-20) and chair of the Translation and Linguistic...
Oleg Sentsov at the Frontline Club
Photograph of an event held at the Frontline Club in London on 15 November, the day of PEN International's annually observed Day of the Imprisoned Writer, in 2019. At...
Cathy McCann and Larry Siems
Photograph of Cathy McCann, on the left, former researcher for the Writers in Prison Committee and Writers at Risk Protection Manager (2015-) at PEN International, with Larry Siems, on...
WiPC meeting in Barcelona, 2004
Photograph of delegates at the opening ceremony of a Writers in Prison Conference held in Barcelona on 16-21 May 2004. From left to right are: Carles Torner, executive director...
WiPC conference in Kathmandu
Photograph of delegates at a conference of the Writers in Prison Committee held in Kathmandu, Nepal, in 2000. The delegates who attended this conference were: Diana Ayton-Shenker (American Centre);...
WiPC members in Kathmandu
Photograph of Writers in Prison Committee members in Kathmandu for a WiPC conference held there in 2000. From left to right are: Alexander Tkachenko, founding member and general secretary...
Panel at WiPC's 6th conference
Photograph of panellists at the 6th conference of the Writers in Prison Committee, which was hosted by the Turkish Centre and held in Istanbul on 2-4 March 2006. From...
Clark and Whyatt at 6th conference
Photograph of panellists at the 6th conference of the Writers in Prison Committee, which was hosted by the Turkish Centre and held in Istanbul on 2-4 March 2006. Karin...
Recital at the 1st WiPC conference
Photograph of a committee member reciting work at the 1st conference of the Writers in Prison Committee, which was hosted by the Danish Centre and held in Helsingør in...
Jens Lohmnann
Photograph of Jens Lohmann being hugged at a PEN event. Lohmann has been a member of the Danish Centre since 1977, a member of the Centre's Board since 1987,...
In Other Words banner
Photograph of a street view showing the banner that was used for the biennial ICORN Network Meeting and PEN International Writers in Prison Conference, which was held in Lillehammer...
1st conference of the WiPC
Photograph of the 1st conference of the Writers in Prison Committee, which was hosted by the Danish Centre and held in Helsingør in 1996. Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, then chair of...
Meeting at 1st WiPC conference
Photograph of members at the 1st conference of the Writers in Prison Committee, which was hosted by the Danish Centre and held in Helsingør in 1996. From second from...
7th WiPC meeting in Glasgow
Photograph of members of the Writers in Prison Committee gathered for their 7th conference, which was held in Glasgow from 3-6 April 2008. The pages that the members can...
Global Forum for Free Expression
Photograph of members of the Writers in Prison Committee gathered for the Global Forum for Free Expression, which also acted as the WiPC's 8th annual conference, that took place...
Orhan Pamuk and Sara Whyatt
Photograph of the novelist and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, on the left, and Sara Whyatt, programme director (1990-2013) and interim executive director (2010-11) of PEN International, on the right....
"Freedom of Expression in Turkey" conference
Photograph of speakers at a panel event on “Freedom of Expression in Turkey Today”, which was held during the 6th conference of the Writers in Prison Committee. From left...
Women Writers Committee in Dakar
Photograph of Women Writers Committee members at the 73rd PEN International Congress in Dakar, Senegal, which took place on 4-11 July 2007 and was titled The World and Human...
Clark and Wills in Istanbul
Photograph of members at the 6th conference of the Writers in Prison Committee, which was held in Istanbul from 2-4 March 2006. Karin Clark, chair of the WiPC (2004-09),...
Siems and Tkachenko in Istanbul
Photograph of members at the 6th conference of the Writers in Prison Committee, which was held in Istanbul from 2-4 March 2006. Larry Siems, director of the American Centre's...
Women's Manifsto launch in Buenos Aires
Photograph PEN members after the presentation of the Women's Manifesto at the Buenos Aires Congress of Latin American PEN Centres that was held on 26-28 July 2018. From left...
Clement and the Dalai Lama
Photograph of Jennifer Clement, president of PEN International (2015-) at an audience with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dhamasala, India, on 4 May 2017, during a trip to...
Noma Dumezweni reading Women's Manifesto
Photograph of a conference co-organised by ICORN and PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee that was held in Rotterdam on 29-31 May 2019 and titled At Home Everywhere. Here,...
Nicola Sturgeon receives Women's Manifesto
Photograph of Nicola Sturgeon, second from the left, First Minister of Scotland, receiving the Women's Manifesto from Jennifer Clement, end on the left, president of PEN International (2015-), with...
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka recieves Women's Manifesto
Photograph of UN under-secretary-general and executive director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, on the left, recieving the PEN International Women’s Manifesto from Jennifer Clement, president of PEN International (2015-)....
Sofi Oksanen recieves Women's Manifesto
Photograph of the Finnish writer and playright Sofi Oksanen, on the right, receiving the PEN International Women’s Manifesto from Jennifer Clement, president of PEN International (2015-). PEN launched the...
Clement's speech upon becoming PEN president
Photograph of Jennifer Clement, president of PEN International (2015-), speaking at the 81st PEN International Congress in Quebec City after being elected the first woman president of PEN International....
Vera Iversen
Photograph of Vera Iversen, member of the Central Asian Centre, the Norwegian Centre, and the Women Writers Committee. This photograph was taken at the 80th PEN International Congress in...
WWC group in Reykjavík
Photograph of Women Writers Committee members at the 79th PEN International Congress in Reykjavík, Iceland, which was held on 9-12 September 2013 and titled Digital Frontiers: Linguistic Rights and...
Committee members at Status of Women session
Photograph of Women Writers Committee members at a session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. From left to right are: Sarah Clarke, former policy and...
Kathmann and Tsung Su at UN session
Photograph of Lucina Kathmann, on the right, former president of the San Miguel de Allende Centre, vice-president emerita of PEN International (2003-) and chair of the Women Writers Committee...
Kathmann welcomed by the Melbourne Centre
Photograph of Lucina Kathmann, 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), being welcomed...
Women writers protest at New York Congress
Photograph of delegates in a debate at the 48th PEN International Congress in New York, USA, which was held on 12-17 June 1986 and titled The Writer’s Imagination And...
Martha Cerda
Photograph of Martha Cerda, president emerita of the Guadalajara Centre and chair of the Women Writers Committee (2000-03).
Meredith Tax
Photograph of Meredith Tax, first president of the Women Writers Committee (1991-94).
Outside Keur Birago Centre in Dakar
Photograph of PEN members gathered outside the Keur Birago Centre in Dakar in 2000. From left to right at the very front are: Lucina Kathmann, former president of the...
Ma Thida and Lucina Kathmann
Photograph of Ma Thida, on the left, president of the Myanmar Centre (2013-16), Board member of PEN International (2016-) and member of the Women Writers Committee, and Lucina Kathmann,...
Ma Thida and Phina So
Photograph of Phina So, on the left, chair of the Cambodian Centre's Women Writers Committee, and Ma Thida, on the right, president of the Myanmar Centre (2013-16), Board member...
HERstory exhibition in New York
Photograph of Lucina Kathmann, on the left, former president of the San Miguel de Allende Centre, vice-president emerita of PEN International (2003-) and chair of the Women Writers Committee...
Lucina Kathmann at UN Commission
Photograph of Lucina Kathmann, 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), speaking at...
WWC members in Iceland
Photograph of Women Writers Committee members in the Blue Lagoon in Iceland between meetings at the 79th PEN International Congress in Reykjavík, which took place on 9-12 September 2013....
Kathmann and Mintegi in Korea
Photograph of Lucina Kathmann, on the left, former president of the San Miguel de Allende Centre, vice-president emerita of PEN International (2003-) and chair of the Women Writers Committee...
Greta Rana
Photograph of Greta Rana, founder of the Nepalese Centre and chair of the Women Writers Committee (1994-96).
Committee members in Dakar
Photograph of Women Writers Committee members at a meeting held in the Senate Chamber in Dakar in 2000. From left to right are: Lucina Kathmann, former president of the...
Judith Rodriguez
Photograph of Judith Rodriguez, president (1989-92) and vice-president of the Melbourne Centre (1992-2007), member of PEN International's Board (2001-06), chair of the Search Committee (2008-09; 2009-12), member of the...
Elisabeth Nordgren and Philo Ikonya
Photograph of Elisabeth Nordgren, on the left, chair of the Women Writers Committee (2015-18), and Philo Ikonya, on the right, former president of the Kenyan Centre. This photograph may...
Starcevic and Kathmann at UN demonstration
Photograph of Elizabeth Starcevic, on the left, former president of the San Miguel de Allende Centre and member of the Women Writers Committee, and Lucina Kathmann, on the right,...
Nawal El Saadawi
Photograph of the Egyptian feminist, novelist, psychiatrist and activist Nawal El Saadawi (Nawāl Saʻdāwī). El Saadawi was the first human rights case to be taken up by the Women...
Iqbāl Barakah
Photograph of Iqbāl Barakah, chair of the Women Writers Committee (2012-15).
Boat trip to Elephanta Island
Photograph of Women Writers Committee members on a boat trip to Elephanta Island in Mumbai Harbour in October 2018. From left to right are: Sarah Lawson, member of the...
Anisa Sabiri
Photograph of the writer and filmmaker Anisa Sabiri, who was a special guest of the Women Writers Committee at the 80th PEN International Congress in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, which was...
Bêrîvan Doskî
Photograph of Bêrîvan Doskî, vice-president (2013-16), co-president (2016-19) and honorary president (2019-) of the Kurdish Centre, and member of the Women Writers Committee.
Members at 78th Congress in Korea
Photograph of Women Writers Committee members at the 78th PEN International Congress in Gyeongju, Korea, which was held on 9-14 September 2012. From left to right are: Alicia Quiñones,...
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...
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...
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...
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;...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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).