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.
Phạm Quang Trình
Photograph of Phạm Quang Trình, president of the Vietnamese Abroad Centre (2003-05).
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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:...
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...
Panel at Diyarbakir Book Fair
Photograph of speakers at a panel event held during the TUYAP Fairs and Exhibitions Organisation's Diyarbakir Book Fair, which took place in Diyarbakir on 25-30 September 2018. This panel...
Turkish Centre with Bêrîvan Doskî
Photograph of members of the Turkish Centre with Bêrîvan Doskî, vice-president (2013-16), co-president (2016-19) and honorary president (2019-) of the Kurdish Centre. From left to right are: Zeynep Oral,...
Day of the Imprisoned Writer in Istanbul
Photograph of panellists at a conference organised for Day of the Imprisoned Writer on 15 November 2018 and held at Cezayir Toplantı Salonu'nda (Algeria Meeting Hall) in Istanbul. This...
2018 Duygu Asena Women’s Rights Award
Photograph of attendees of the 2018 PEN Duygu Asena Awards ceremony, which was hosted by the Goethe-Institut in Istanbul on 6 March 2018, two days before International Women's Day....
Peace Committee event in Ankara
Photograph of panellists who spoke at conferences held in the cities of Ankara, Diyarbakir and Izmir, which were organised by PEN International's Writers for Peace Committee under the leadership...
Seyhmus Diken with Ahmed Arif sculpture
Photograph of Seyhmus Diken, member of the Turkish Centre, standing beside the newly renovated sculpture of the Kurdish poet Ahmed Arif. This bust was destroyed in 2017 - and...
Shahriar Kabir visits the Turkish Centre
Photograph of members from the Turkish Centre with the Bangladeshi journalist, filmmaker, and human rights activist Shahriar Kabir, who visited Turkey in 2017. From left to right are: an...
Launch of Canımı Yakma!
Photograph of participants on stage at the launch of Çay, Merve, ed. Canımı Yakma! (Don’t Hurt Me!). Istanbul: Kırmızı Kedi Yayınları, 2016. This anthology, which was created by the...
Peace Conference in Diyarbakır
Photograph of panellists at the PEN 2016 Peace Conference in Diyarbakır, which was held on 25 September 2016 in Turkish, Kurdish and English. From left to right are: Halil...
Turkish delegation in Ourense
Photograph of 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: Tarık Günersel,...
Creative workshop led by Zeynep Aliye
Photograph of the participants of a creative writing workshop held in 2014 and led by Zeynep Aliye, treasurer of the Turkish Centre (2015-), who can be seen standing third...
Delegates in Ourense
Photograph of delegates between meetings during the 82nd PEN International Congress in Ourense, Spain, which was held from 26 September to 2 October 2016. From left to right are:...
5th PEN Ural-Altay Conference
Photograph of attendees of the 5th PEN Ural-Altay Solidarity Network Conference, which was held in Kyrgyzstan in July 2013 and titled "Language through Generations.... We Speak Who We Are"....
PEN International press conference in Istanbul
Photograph of PEN International delegates at a press conference held in Istanbul on 15 November 2012. From left to right are: Eugene Schoulgin, president of the Writers in Prison...
Sara Whyatt
Photograph of Sara Whyatt, PEN International’s programme director (1990-2013), interim executive director (2010-11), and deputy director (2011-2013). Whyatt headed PEN International’s freedom of expression programme for over twenty years,...
Copies of The Turkish PEN
Photograph of a selection of copies of The Turkish PEN, poetry anthologies published by the Turkish Centre. These anthologies were compiled, edited and translated into English by Suat Karantay,...
Suat Karantay
Photograph of the Turkish academic, translator and former general secretary of the Turkish Centre, Suat Karantay. Karantay compiled, edited and translated issues of the Turkish Centre's poetry anthologies The...
Halide Edip Adıvar
Photograph of the Turkish novelsist, political leader and womens rights campaigner Halide Edip Adıvar who founded the Turkish Centre in April 1950.
Trieste Centre at the 84th PEN International Congress
Photograph of the Trieste Centre's table at the Assembly of Delegates, during the 84th PEN International Congress in Pune, India. This Congress was held on 25-29 September 2018 and...
Takeaki Hori and the statue of Italo Svevo
Photograph of Takeaki Hori, international secretary of PEN International (2010-16), posing next to the statue of Trieste writer Italo Svevo with the book Ho sognato una vita come Franz...
Commemoration for Predrag Matvejević
Photograph taken during a commemorative event organised by the Trieste Centre in honour of Predrag Matvejević, vice-president of PEN International, on 1 March 2017. Matvejević, who was also co-founder...
Prenz and Martelli at the Caffè San Marco
Photograph of Juan Octavio Prenz, first president of the Trieste Centre, and Claudio H. Martelli, second president of the Trieste Centre, in deep conversation at the Caffè San Marco,...
Homero Aridjis
Photograph of Homero Aridjis, president of PEN International (1997-2003). It is during Aridjis' presidency that the Trieste Centre was accepted during the 69th Congress of PEN International, which took...
Il Nuovo Timavo (The New Timavo) poetry collection
Photograph of Claudio H. Martelli, former president of the Trieste Centre, presenting a new poetry collection called Il Nuovo Timavo (The New Timavo), an initiative directed by him...
Martelli at the 2nd Regional Conference of the Trieste Centre
Photograph of Claudio H. Martelli, former president of the Trieste Centre, speaking at the 2nd Regional Conference of the Trieste Centre, which took place from 31 August to 2...
PEN Club Trieste Prizes 2009
Photograph of Argentinian writer Hugo Beccacece and Croatian poet Tonko Maroević, the two laureates of the PEN Club Trieste Prizes 2009, which were awarded at the Caffè San Marco...
Antonio Della Rocca
Photograph of Antonio Della Rocca, president of the Trieste Centre (2011-) and Board member of PEN International (2012-2018).
Faces of Peace, Mežnarija at the Kamna Gorica
Photograph taken during an event titled Faces of Peace, Mežnarija, which was held in the Kamna Gorica house in Radovljica on 12 May 2016, during the 48th Writers for...
Performance at the Casa della Musica
Photograph taken during the last of a series of reading performances in which the Trieste Centre took part, at the Casa della Musica, in Trieste, between 2014 and 2015.
Founding members of the Trieste Centre
Photograph of the founding members of the Trieste Centre, most likely taken in Trieste. From left to right: Claudio H. Martelli, then vice-president, and former president of the Trieste...
Koudavi Nomanyo at the second General Assembly
Photograph of Koudavi Nomanyo, deputy general secretary of the Togolese Centre (2016-), acting as the moderator during the second General Assembly of the Togolese Centre on 30 July 2016,...
Marthe Fare at the second General Assembly
Photograph of Nonfoh Marthe Fare, president of the Togolese Centre (2016-) welcoming the members and the audience to the second General Assembly of the Togolese Centre on 30 July...
Renaud Dossavi at the second General Assembly
Photograph of Renaud Dossavi, general secretary of the Togolese Centre (2016-), reading the statutes at the second General Assembly of the Togolese Centre on 30 July 2016, in the...
La Nuit des Auteurs round table
Photograph of a round table on the Togolese literature during the La Nuit des Auteurs event, on 2 December 2017, at the Hakuna Matata Centre, in Lomé. This event,...
Marthe Fare and Jennifer Clement
Photograph of Nonfoh Marthe Fare, president of the Togolese Centre (2016-), on the left, and Jennifer Clement, president of Mexican Centre (2009-12) and president of PEN International (2015-), on...
Djondo at the second General Assembly
Photograph of Guillaume Djondo, commissioner for the literary clubs and workshops of the Togolese Centre, ensuring the digital coverage of the second General Assembly of the Togolese Centre, on...
Masterclass with Sami Tchak
Photograph of a masterclass organised by the Togolese Centre and given by Togolese writer Sami Tchak on 17 September 2017, in Lomé. This workshop was centered around character creation...
Dossavi histing a writing workshop for children
Photograph of Renaud Dossavi, general secretary of the Togolese Centre (2016-), hosting a writing workshop for children on 12 November 2017, during the very first edition of the Foire...
Poetry workshop at the Lycée moderne d'Adidogomé
Photograph of Renaud Dossavi, general secretary of the Togolese Centre (2016-), in the center with the white shirt, surrounded by the students of the Lycée moderne d'Adidogomé who had...
Foire Internationale du livre de Lomé
Photograph of Guillaume Djondo, commissioner for the literary clubs and workshops of the Centre, on the left, and Renaud Dossavi, general secretary of the Togolese Centre (2016-), on the...
Dossavi wins L'Afrique de mes rêves
Photograph of Renaud Dossavi, general secretary of the Togolese Centre (2016-), on the right, being awarded the first prize in the writing contest L'Afrique de mes rêves from the...
Togolese Centre Board members in 2016
Photograph of the newly elected Board of the Togolese Centre, taken on 13 February 2016 in Lomé. From left to right: Joseph Kokou Koffigoh; Obi Wolou Djele; Gilles Oblasse;...
Constitutive General Assembly of the Togolese Centre
Photograph of the audience participating to the General Assembly of the Togolese Centre, which took place on 30 July 2016, in Lomé.
Ladrang Kelsang
Photograph of Ladrang Kelsang, president of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre (1999-2003).
Sonam Gyantsen
Photograph of Sonam Gyantsen, president of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre (2019-22).
TLRC meeting in Girona in 2014
Photograph of delegates at a meeting of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee that was hosted by the Catalan Centre and held at Centre Cultural La Mercè in Girona...
Speaker on Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2016
Photograph of a member of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre speaking at an event organised by the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre for Day of the Imprisoned Writer, 15 November...
Delegates at Quebec Congress
Photograph of delegates at the 81st PEN International in Quebec City, Canada, which was held on 13-16 October 2015. From left to right are: Arik Gethong, member of the...
Tibetan Centre's 5th Congress
Photograph of panellists at the 5th Congress of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre, which was held at Hotel Norbu House in Dharamsala on 9-10 January 2016.
Tibetan Board at 5th Congress
Photograph of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre's Executive Board seated outside during the 5th Congress of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre, which was held at Hotel Norbu House in...
Performance at Tibetan Centre's Congress
Photograph of a performance taking place during the 5th Congress of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre, which was held at Hotel Norbu House in Dharamsala on 9-10 January 2016.
Speaker on World Poetry Day
Photograph of a member of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre speaking at an event organised by the Centre for World Poetry Day on 21 March 2016. This event was...
Presenting on World Poetry Day
Photograph of a member of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre speaking at an event organised by the Centre for World Poetry Day on 21 March 2016. This event was...
80th PEN Congress delegates
Photograph of delegates at the 80th PEN International Congress in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, which was held from 29 September to 2 October 2014. Among them are members from the Tibetan...
80th PEN Congress panellists
Photograph of delegates taking part in a panel event held during the 80th PEN International Congress in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, which was held from 29 September to 2 October 2014....
Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2016 speakers
Photograph of guest speakers at an event organised by the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre for Day of the Imprisoned Writer on 15 November 2016. This event was co-organised with...
Tibetan Centre's 4th Congress
Photograph of Chabdak Lhamo Kyab, president of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre (2004-15), on the left, and His Eminence the 11th Kirti Rinpoche, on the right, at the 4th...
Nyima Tso on World Poetry Day 2018
Photograph of Nyima Tso, secretary and treasurer of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre (2016-), speaking at an event organised by the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre for World Poetry Day...
World Poetry Day 2018 in Sarah
Photograph of speakers and the audience at an event organised by the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre for World Poetry Day on 21 March 2018. This event was held at...
TLRC delegates in Bengaluru
Photograph of PEN members at a meeting of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee that was held on 26-29 April 2017 in Bengaluru, India. From left to right are:...
TLRC Meeting in Bengaluru
Photograph of all the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee delegates who gathered in Bengaluru, India, for a meeting held on 26-29 April 2017. PEN Centres from Switzerland, Norway, Kazakhstan,...
Lhoudoup Palsang on Day of the Imprisoned Writer
Photograph of Lhoudoup Palsang, president of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre (2016-19), speaking at an event organised by the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre for Day of the Imprisoned Writer...
Women's Day event in Dharamsala
Photograph of participants arriving to an event organised by the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre for International Women's Day on 8 March 2016. This event was held at the Dolma...
Participant on International Women's Day in Dharamsala
Photograph of a participant speaking at an event organised by the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre for International Women's Day on 8 March 2016. This event was held at the...
Tibetan writers awarded trophies
Photograph of Tibetan writers being awarded golden trophies at the first conference of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre, which was held on 19-21 March 2003 in Dharamsala, where the...
International Women's Day event in Dharamsala
Photograph of the audience and speakers at an event organised by the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre for International Women's Day, 8 March 2016. This event was held at the...
Meet and greet in Dharamsala
Photograph of members of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre and guests at a meet and greet session with Carles Torner, executive director of PEN International (2014-20), and Jennifer Clement,...