PEN UDHR
PEN International actively participated in the establishment of the United Nations (1945) and UNESCO (1946), and contributed from the very beginning to the drafting of the Universal Declaration of...
Empty Chair for Oleg Sentsov
Poster used for the empty chair dedicated to Ukrainian writer and filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, and signed by the members of various Centres during the biennial ICORN Network Meeting and...
Empty Chair for Raif Badawi
Poster used for the empty chair dedicated to Saudi blogger and editor Raif Badawi, and signed by the members of various Centres during the biennial ICORN Network Meeting and...
Empty Chair for Razan Zaitouneh
Poster used for the empty chair dedicated to Syrian blogger and human rights activist Razan Zaitouneh, and signed by the members of various Centres during the biennial ICORN Network...
Empty Chair for Idris Said Aba Arre
Poster used for the empty chair dedicated to Eritrean writer Idris Said Aba Arre, and signed by the members of various Centres during the biennial ICORN Network Meeting and...
Empty Chair for Aslı Ceren Aslan
Poster used for the empty chair dedicated to Turkish editor Aslı Ceren Aslan, and signed by the members of various Centres during the biennial ICORN Network Meeting and PEN...
Empty Chair for Dawit Isaak
Poster used for the empty chair dedicated to Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak, and signed by the members of various Centres during the biennial ICORN Network Meeting and PEN International...
Free the Word! 2010
Poster advertising the Free the Word! 2010 festival, organised by PEN International and held on 14-18 April 2010 in multiple venues in London.
2005 PEN Congress poster
Poster advertising the 71st PEN International Congress, which was held on 14-21 June 2005 in Bled, Slovenia, and titled The Tower of Babel: a Blessing or a Curse?, Language...
1990 PEN Congress poster
Poster advertising the 55th PEN International Congress in Funchal, Portugal, which was held on 6-12 May 1990 and titled Language And Literatures: Unity And Diversity.
PEN's first Case List
Typed appendix containing PEN International's first Case List, 1960, Rio de Janeiro, f. 1. Until the mid-1980s, PEN's Case Lists were published as an addendum to the minutes of...
Marjorie-Ann Watt's letter to Torner
Typed and handwritten letter from Marjorie-Ann Watts to Carles Torner, London, 28 May 2019, f. 1. In this letter Marjorie-Ann Watts, granddaughter of PEN International's founder Catharine Amy Dawson...
William Nygaard's speech on self-censoriship
Video of William Nygaard, president of the Norwegian Centre (2013-19), speaking at the International Publishers Association Congress, which was held in New Delhi, India, on 10-12 February 2018. In...
1999 PEN Congress poster
Poster advertising the 66th PEN International Congress in Warsaw, Poland, which was held on 15-20 June 1999 and titled Farewell to the Twentieth Century. This Congress was hosted by...
1997 PEN Congress poster
Poster advertising the 64th PEN International Congress in Edinburgh, Scotland, which was held on 5-11 August 1997 and titled Identity and Diversity. This Congress was hosted by the Scottish...
2008 PEN Congress poster
Poster advertising the 74th PEN International Congress in Bogotá, Colombia, which was held on 17-22 September 2008 and titled The Role of the Word. This Congress was hosted...
2002 PEN Congress poster
Poster advertising the 68th PEN International Congress in Ohrid, Macedonia, which was held on 17-24 September 2002 and titled Borders of Freedom/Freedom of Borders. This Congress was hosted by...
PEN International's Committee minutes, 1922
Handwritten minutes from the first meeting held by PEN International (here called the 'International PEN Committee') on 26 February 1922, f. 1. This page notes that this meeting was...
Night of the Imprisoned Writer event
Flyer for an event organised by the English Centre in collaboration with ice&fire theatre company titled Night of the Imprisoned Writer, which was held in London on 15 November...
IFEX's Day to End Impunity logo
Logo of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange's (IFEX) International Day to End Impunity. This annually observed day - selected to be 23 November - was offically established by...
Day of the Dead logo
Poster designed for PEN International's Day of the Dead by the Guadalajara Centre, with artwork by Maxine Young. On 2 November 2011, members of the public, members of staff...
IFEX's Day to End Impunity poster
The winning poster of a competition held by the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) for the International Day to End Impunity, which was established by the General Assembly...
Football card for Iran
A 'Football Card' designed by PEN International to raise awareness of freedom of the word in Iran. Inspired by the FIFA World Cup held in Brazil in 2014, PEN...
Poster for Oleg Sentsov
Poster created for PEN International's campaign to support the case of the Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov. In May 2014, Sentsov was imprisoned in Russia for protesting against the annexation...
Ten year sentence' cartoon by Haldane
Cartoon by the British cartoonist and illustrator David Haldane, which featured in Publish and be Damned!, a book of cartoons for PEN International that was edited by Mark Bryant...
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...
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...
Culture's Oxygen report
Cover, inner cover, contents page and preface of a PEN report titled Culture's Oxygen, 2016, ff. 4. This report, which was launched on 21 February 2017 to mark International...
To Be Translated Or Not To Be report
Front covers in four languages (English, French, German and Catalan) of a report titled To Be Translated Or Not To Be by PEN International and Institut Ramon Llull that...
PEN's Bulletin of Selected Books
Front cover of Bulletin of Selected Books / Choix de notices critiques by PEN International, Vol. 6 no. 1 (March 1955). The coinciding of missions in areas of promoting...
Translation scheme announced in P.E.N. News
Extract from P.E.N. News, November 1928: 6. This particular issue of P.E.N. News contains an article titled "Translation Scheme" that reports on a recent agreement made between what...
UNESCO conference in Venice
Page outlining the rules and procedures for delegates and observers at UNESCO's International Conference of Artists in Venice 1952, f. 1. This document was written and issued before the...
Changing the Charter in English
Electronically typed document concerning changes to Article 3 of the PEN International Charter, f. 1. This document (in its English version) affirms modifications to the Charter that were passed...
Solomon and Clement's exchange on PEN Charter
Screenshot of an email exchange between Jennifer Clement, president of PEN International (2015-), and Andrew Solomon, president of the American Centre (2015-18) that took place on 22 May 2016,...
Volume 1 of The Network/Le Réseau/La Red
Front cover of The Network/Le Réseau/La Red, Vol. 1, no. 1 (Autumn 1993). This is the cover of the first ever edition of The Network/Le Réseau/La Red - a...
Regional Conference poster
Poster advertising a conference event organised by the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Centre that was titled the Regional Conference of Literature and Culture for Peace: destruction, reconstruction, construction. This conference was held...
Programmes for the 7th and 8th Literary Awards
Programmes for the 7th and 8th editions of the Annual Literary Awards Festival, which was hosted by the USA West Centre and took place on the 28 October, in...
Multilingual poster with PEN Charter
Poster from American artist Sally Howell for the USA West Centre showcasing a collage of fragments written in several languages, along with the Charter of PEN International. The excerpt...
USA West Centre in the Los Angeles Times
Copy of Jack Miles, "Growing Pains (and Pleasures) of PEN USA Center West," Los Angeles Times, 16 September 1990. In this article, Jack Miles, former Board member of the...
USA West Centre's Newsletter
Photograph showing issues of the USA West Centre's newsletter throughout the years. Among them are issues related to Salman Rushdie, president of the American Centre (2004-06), and Nigerian writer...
Writers in Exile Centre Fall 2010 Newsletter
Copy of Newsletter: Center for Writers-in-Exile–American Branch (Fall 2010): 1-6. This is the last newsletter produced by the Writers in Exile American Centre. In the first pages, Anna Frajlich,...
Writers in Exile Centre Fall 2003 Newsletter
Copy of Newsletter: Center for Writers-in-Exile–American Branch (Autumn 2003): 1-6. This newsletter presents a report on the Writers' Conference that took place in Bled, in May 2003, and talks...
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.
Special Newsletter
1 typed letter from Clara Györgyey to the members of the Writers in Exile American Centre, 2 September 2009, f. 1. In this letter, which she refers to as...
Women's Day performance at Volcano Theatre
Flyers in Welsh and English advertising an evening of poetry, stories and music that was organised by the Welsh Centre and held at Volcano Theatre in Swansea on 8...
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...
Launch of The Other Tiger
Invitation to the launch of Gwyn, Richard. The Other Tiger: Recent Poetry From Latin America . Bridgend: Seren Books, 2016. This event launching Richard Gwyn's anthology of Spanish language...
Africa Cymru event poster
Poster advertising an event organised by the Welsh Centre that was titled Africa Cymru . This event was held in the town of Criccieth on 23 June 2017 and...
Submission to UN Human Rights Office
Electronically typed submission from the Vietnamese Abroad Centre to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 21 May 2018, ff. 8. This submission was created...
Protesting Vietnamese activists' sentences
Electronically typed open letter from the Vietnamese Abroad Centre, Oviedo, 6 April 2018; heading: «Letter of Protest Condemning Human Right Violations in Vietnam in light of the Recent Trial...
Protesting new cyber security law
Electronically typed open letter from the Vietnamese Abroad Centre, Oviedo, 12 June 2018; heading: «Letter of Objection: Protesting Vietnam’s New Cyber Security Law Granting Unlimited Powers to Infringe on...
Protesting Chinese lease of Vietnamese territory
Electronically typed call to action from the Vietnamese Abroad Centre to the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Oviedo, 6 June 2018, in bulletin HS: 2018/TB/KT03, ff....
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Postcards supporting Ukrainian writers
Collection of flyers (called 'postcards' in PEN campaigns) created by the Ukrainian Centre in support of four cases of persecuted Ukrainian writers: Mykola Semena, Oleg Sentsov, Roman Suschenko, and...
Best Ukrainian Books in 2019
Brochure created by the Ukrainian Centre in 2019 titled PEN Ukraine's List of Best Ukrainian Books in 2019, ff. 8. This brochure, which is written in English and has...
Flyer on Sentsov's hunger strike
Flyer (known as 'postcards' in PEN campaigns) created by Ukrainian Centre in September 2018 as part of PEN International's global campaign calling for the liberation of the Ukrainian filmmaker...
The Ugandan PEN (December 2004)
Cover of The Ugandan PEN Vol. 3, no. 1 (December 2004): 1. This issue of the Ugandan Centre's newsletter features an opening article by Danson Kahyana, president of the...
The Ugandan PEN (December 2003)
Cover of The Ugandan PEN Vol. 2, no. 2 (December 2003): 1. This issue of the Ugandan Centre's newsletter features an opening article by Danson Kahyana, president of the...
The Ugandan PEN (January 2003)
Cover of The Ugandan PEN Vol. 2, no. 1 (January 2003): 1. This issue of the Ugandan Centre's newsletter features an opening article by Danson Kahyana, president of the...
The Ugandan PEN (August 2003)
Cover of The Ugandan PEN Vol. 2, no. 1 (August 2003): 1. This issue of the Ugandan Centre's newsletter features an opening article by Danson Kahyana, president of the...
Toni Morrison
Photograph of the Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, member of the American Centre and vice-president of PEN International, on a flyer (known as 'postcards' in PEN campaigns) 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...
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,...
Censorship in Tibet report
Cover of a report published by the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre and the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy titled Censorship in Tibet.
PEN International commemorates Lobsang Chokta
Electronically typed letter from PEN International to the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre, London, 8 January 2016; heading: «PEN International», ff. 2. In this letter Jennifer Clement, president of PEN...
Guild of Tibetan Writers' newsletter
Copy of the first English-language newsletter of the Guild of Tibetan Writers, titled "Dedicated to Protecting a Precious Culture", 2002, ff. 4. The Guild of Tibetan writers was established...
For Freedom and Equality book
Front cover of a book published by the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre and the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy for Day of the Imprisoned Writer on 15...
Language, Culture and Identity event flyer
Flyer for a panel discussion held on 7 April 2017 at Hotel Norbu House in Dharamsala titled Intersection of Language, Culture and Identity. This event was co-organised by the...
Copy of Chistok Melong
Copy of _Chitsok Melong (The Mirror Of Society), Dharamsala: Tibetan PEN, 30 September 2013: 1-6. Chistok Melong, the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre's monthly publication, was first printed in 2000...
Tibetan delegation supporting persecuted writers
Photograph of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre delegation holding up images of three persecuted writers and PEN cases: Gao Yu, Liu Xiaobo, and Ilham Tohti. The members holding the...
Tibetan delegation at 80th PEN Congress
Photograph of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre delegation - seated at the end three positions on the right - at the 80th PEN International Congress in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, which...
Nancy Chang Ing's reply to Chinese Centres
Folder of documents containing: 1 handwritten transcript by Yu Kwang-chung 余光中 of a speech made by Nancy Chang Ing 殷張蘭熙 in Caracas in 1983, ff. 4; 1 copy of...
Sydney PEN Magazine May 2014
Cover of Sydney PEN Magazine, May 2014. This particular edition of Sydney PEN Magazine - the Sydney Centre's biannual publication - contains the headline "The Hon. Michael Kirby delivers...
Sydney PEN Magazine May 2020
Cover of Sydney PEN Magazine, May 2012. This particular edition of Sydney PEN Magazine - the Sydney Centre's biannual publication - contained articles including Craig Reucassel's essay on...
Sydney PEN Magazine November 2019
Cover of Sydney PEN Magazine, November 2019. This particular edition of Sydney PEN Magazine - the Sydney Centre's biannual publication - contains the headline "Public Enemy Number One" before...
Sydney PEN Magazine November 2018
Cover of Sydney PEN Magazine, November 2018. The title and theme of this particular edition of Sydney PEN Magazine - the Sydney Centre's biannual publication - was "Online trolling...
Sydney PEN Magazine May 2019
Cover of Sydney PEN Magazine, May 2019. The title and theme of this particular edition of Sydney PEN Magazine - the Sydney Centre's biannual publication - was "Free Voices:...
A Country Too Far anthology
Front cover of Keneally, Thomas, Rosie Scott, Kathryn Heyman, ed. A Country Too Far. Melbourne: Penguin Books Australia, 2013. Rosie Scott and Tom Keneally were nominated for The Human...
Uncensored Voices by Eritrean writers in exile
Front cover of Mekonnen, Daniel R., Tedros Abraham and Abraham T. Zere. Uncensored Voices. Essays, Poems and Art Works by Exiled Eritreans. Wien: Löcker Erhard Verlag, 2018. This book...
90 years of the Slovene Centre
Timeline created on 5 March 2016 to promote an exhibition celebrating the 90th anniversary of the Slovene Centre, which was titled Svoboda besede (Freedom of Words) and held in...
Training workshop in Bo
Photograph of panellists at the opening ceremony of an art and culture training workshop organised by the Sierra Leone Centre and held in Bo, Southern Sierra Leone, on 17...
50th International Writers' Meeting in Bled
Copy of Simonović, Ifigenija, ed. 50 Let Years Ans. Ljubljana: Slovenski center PEN, 2018. This book, which was published by the Slovene Centre and edited by Ifigenija Simonović, president...
2nd issue of Junior PEN Point
Front cover of Sierra Leone PEN, Junior PEN Point 1, no. 2 (March 2010): 1. This is the cover of the second issue of Junior PEN Point, the Sierra...
1st issue of PEN Point
Front cover of Sierra Leone PEN, PEN Point 1, no. 1 : 1. This is the cover of the inaugural issue of the Sierra Leone Centre's magazine PEN Point,...
1st issue of Junior PEN Point
Front cover of Sierra Leone PEN, Junior PEN Point 1, no. 1 (May 2008): 1. This is the cover of the inaugural issue of Junior PEN Point, the Sierra...
Book of Voices back cover
Back cover of Butscher, Michael, ed. Book of Voices. London: Flame Books Ltd, 24 March 2005. As the introducion on this cover describes, Book of Voices is an anthology...
Reception for Arturo Arias
Two press cuttings from The Mexico City News, 31 August 1986: 7. These articles report on the details of a cocktail reception that was held for the Guatemalan novelist...
Día de los Muertos 2018
Video of events held by the San Miguel de Allende Centre for Día de los Muertos in San Miguel de Allende on 1-2 November 2018. In this video Judyth...
Folder for San Miguel conferences
Front of a delegate's folder containing documents relating to two of PEN International's conferences: the 4th International Writers in Prison Committee Conference and the 3rd Conference of the Latin...
Literary evening with Musa Mutaev
Poster advertising the cultural programme of an international conference titled Freedom of Expression: Expressions from Chechnya and Caucasus, which took place in Trondheim on 1-4 June 2005. The cultural...
Mutaev with 2016 PEN Anthology
Photograph of Musa Mutaev, founder and president of the Chechen Writers Centre (2006-), holding a copy of an anthology published by the Korean Centre titled 2016 Anthology of the...
All editions of Catalan Writing
Photograph of volumes 1 to 10 of Catalan Writing, an editorial published by the Catalan Centre in collaboration with the Barcelona based Institut Ramon Llull. This editorial championed Catalan...
Final edition of Catalan Writing
Front cover of Catalan Writing, Vol. 10 (November 2011). This is the cover of the final edition of Catalan Writing, an editorial published by the Catalan Centre in collaboration...
Table settings at 1st Congress
Illustrated table settings for the 1st PEN International Congress, London, 1923. This inaugural dinner of PEN International and the earliest established Centres took place in London on 1 May...
The Eli Langer case
Folder of documents concerning the Eli Langer case dated between 1993 and 1995, ff. 24. In 1993 the Canadian artist Eli Langer held an exhibition at the Mercer Union...
Recalling the Centre's early years
Copy of "Margaret Atwood, Eugene Benson & Graeme Gibson remember the early days of PEN Canada," The Canadian Centre: P.E.N. International, (Summer 1996): 3-5. This article from the Canadian...
Fearful Silence book
Copy of Rankin, Evan and de Caires, Brendan. Fearful Silence: the chill on India's public sphere. Toronto: PEN Canada, University of Toronto, PEN International, 2016. This book investigates the...
Journalism in the shadow of Impunity book
Copy of Owens, Kaitlin. Honduras: Journalism in the shadow of Impunity. Toronto: PEN Canada, University of Toronto, PEN International, 2014. This book was the result of joint research conducted...
Imposing Silence book
Copy of Tang, Amy; Rankin, Evan; de Caires, Brendan; and Beesley, Drew. Imposing Silence: The use of India's Laws to suppress Free Speech. Toronto: PEN Canada, University of Toronto,...
Reports on the 54th PEN International Congress
Copy of Callwood, June. ed.; Gibson, Graeme. "Newsletter," The Canadian Centre: P.E.N. International, no. 27 (November 1989): 4-6. This newsletter from the Canadian Centre contains two reports on...
Corruption, Impunity, Silence book
Copy of Gibbons, Cara and Spratt, Beth. Corruption, Impunity, Silence: The War on Mexico’s Journalists. Toronto: PEN Canada, University of Toronto, 2011. This book examines the life-threatening circumstances journalists...
Civil Society Programme presentation
Photograph of Heng Sreang, second on the right, president of the Cambodian Centre (2010-19), with writers who took part in a young writers training workshop organised by the Cambodian...
Trilingual newsletter La Red
Front cover of The Network/Le Réseau/La Red, Vol. 8, no. 1 (Spring 2000). This particular edition of the trillingual newsletter created and published by PEN International's Women Writers Committee...
Interview with Yasemin Çongar
Video of an interview with Yasemin Çongar filmed by the Belgian Dutch-Speaking Centre in Antwerp in December 2019. In this video Yasemin Çongar, translator and former assistant editor for...
Brochure on the Egin Case
Brochure titled "The Egin Case: Closure of a Newspaper" published by the Basque Centre in April 2008. This brochure outlines the timeline of Egin, a Basque newspaper founded in...
Brochure on the history of Euskaldunon Egunkaria
Brochure titled "The Egunkaria Case: The First Newspaper in Basque" published by the Basque Centre in April 2008. This brochure outlines the facts surrounding the forced closure of Euskaldunon...