Visit PEN International's website

This is a site-wide search. If you’re looking for specific collection pieces, please use Search the Collection.

Menu

H. G. Wells

© PEN International
transparent
© PEN International

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 visited Mumbai on 16 December 1939 whilst en route to Australia, where he spent his brief stopover speaking with a group of academic and literary figures in India about the crisis affecting Europe during World War Two.

H. G. Wells

Contenu en français bientôt disponible.

H. G. Wells

Fotografía de H. G. Wells, segundo empezando por la izquierda, presidente de PEN Internacional (1933-36) y del Comité Presidencial Internacional de PEN en tiempos de guerra (1941-46). Esta fotografía fue tomada, probablemente, cuando Wells hizo una parada en Bombay el 16 de diciembre de 1939 en su viaje a Australia, y se reunió con un grupo de académicos y figuras literarias de India para hablar sobre la crisis en Europa durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Date:

16/12/1939

Creator:

Unknown

Belongs to:

PEN International

Format:


Language:

n/a

Place:


More from the PEN International Collection

Women Writers Committee at Asia conference

© Joanne Leedom-Ackerman

2003 PEN Congress poster

© PEN International

PEN meeting in Cairo

© Joanne Leedom-Ackerman

PEN, ICORN, and Eaten Fish

© Mike Halmshaw

Free the Word! 2010

© PEN International

Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2009

© Catalan Centre

IFEX’s Day to End Impunity logo

© IFEX

2005 PEN Congress poster

© PEN International

Portrait of Hermon Ould

©

P.E.N. Im Exil

© Gunter Rambov

First Day of the Dead event in London

© Stephen Brayne

Krikorian, Onderoglu and Whyatt at the UN

© Sara Whyatt

Discover more:

1 Speak Now or Never book

Image

Croatian-Dubrovnik-Congress-Book-1993.pdf See archive details
2 H.G. Wells in Bombay article

Image

See archive details
3 PEN International in La Vanguardia

Image

See archive details