PEN members on İstiklal Avenue
PEN members on İstiklal Avenue
Photograph of PEN members on İstiklal Avenue in Istanbul in 2008. From left to right are: Ugur Yağmurdereli; Patricia Hirschl, American activist and member of the San Miguel de Allende Centre; Lucina Kathmann, vice-president emerita and treasurer of the San Miguel de Allende Centre, vice-president emerita of PEN International (2003-) and chair of PEN International’s Women Writers Committee (1996-2000); Eşber Yağmurdereli, honorary member of Swedish, Slovak, Canadian, Czech, American and San Miguel de Allende Centres, and recipient of the 1999 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award; Elizabeth Starcevic, president emerita of the San Miguel de Allende Centre; and Tarık Günersel, PEN International Board member (2010-12) and president of the Turkish Centre (2007-09).








