Lokdun at the 84th PEN Congress
Lokdun at the 84th PEN Congress
Photograph of Lokdun, vice-president of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre (2016-22), speaking from a podium at the 84th PEN International Congress in Pune, India, which took place on 25-29 September 2018. The panellists seated beside him, from left to right, are: Eugene Schoulgin, member of the Norwegian and Swedish Centres, president of the Writers in Prison Committee (2000-04), international secretary (2007-10) and vice-president of PEN International (2004-); Vida Ognjenović, president of the Serbian Centre and vice-president of PEN International (2012-); and Kätlin Kaldmaa, international secretary of PEN International (2016-) and president of the Estonian Centre (2010-). The title of this Congress was Experiments with Truth: Freedom, Truth, and Diversity.