Reception for Georges Duhamel
Photograph of a reception held in honour of Georges Duhamel, member of the French Centre, who can be seen sitting on the left and looking at the camera. This...
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
Photograph of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, first President of Czechoslovakia (1918-35), who was appointed an honorary member of PEN International in the 1920s. Masaryk met with Catharine Amy Dawson Scott,...
Philip Roth and Günter Grass receive Karel Čapek Awards
Photograph of a ceremony held in Prague in 1994 at which Philip Roth and Günter Grass were awarded the inaugural Karel Čapek Award for outstanding literary achievement. This award...
Masaryk, Dawson Scott and the Galsworthys
Photograph of the founding members of PEN International with Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, first President of Czechoslovakia (1918-35), who was appointed an honorary PEN member in the 1920s. From left...
Founders of the Czech Centre
Extract from Křivánek, Vladimír. Conscience of the Word: the story of Czech P.E.N. Prague: České Centrum Mezinárodního PEN Klubu, 2018. This page from Křivánek's book on the history of...
Karel Čapek's Nobel Prize nomination announced in Arbetet
Press cutting of an article published in Arbetet on 3 October 1938 titled "Nobelpriset at Capek". This excerpt is taken from an article that was published in the Swedish...
Premiere of Karlevich Marko
Photograph of PEN members at a reception held for the Yugoslavian playwright Djuro Dimkovich when he and his wife visited Prague to watch the premiere of Dimkovich's play Kralevich...
Karel Čapek at the 9th Congress
Photograph of delegates from PEN Centres at the 9th PEN International Congress in Amsterdam, 1931. Karel Čapek, founder and first president of the Czech Centre (1925-1933), can be seen...
Thomas Mann and Oskar Frenkel
Photograph of the Nobel laureate and German Centre member Thomas Mann, on the left, with Oskar Frankl, on the right, director of Urania, a German adult-education society in Prague,...
Karel Čapek and Otakar Vočadlo
Photograph of Karel Čapek, on the left, founder and first president of the Czech Centre (1925-33), with Otakar Vočadlo, on the right, member of the English Centre and latterly...
František Khol
Drawing of František Khol, dramaturge, writer, translator, and first secretary of the Czech Centre. Alongside Karel Čapek, founder and first president of the Czech Centre (1925-33), Khol played a...
Conscience of the Word book
Dust cover of Křivánek, Vladimír. Conscience of the Word. The story of Czech P.E.N. Prague: Czech Centre of International P.E.N, 2018. This book recounts the Czech Centre's history from...
The 10th Congress
Photograph of Czech Centre delegates at the 10th PEN International Congress in Budapest, 1932. Among them are: František Langer; Otto Pick; Edmond Konrád; Jiřina Tůmová; and L. N. Zvěřina.
Alois Jirásek
Photograph of the Czech writer Alois Jirásek, member of the English Centre and later of the Czech Centre, who became an honorary member of PEN International in 1923. The...
Debate at Prague Congress
Photograph of PEN members at a panel debate titled Where Tolerance Ends And Indifference Begins, which was held on 12 November 1994 in Prague. This debate was led by...
Czech Centre Board Caricature
Cartoon by the Czech artist Adolf Hoffmeister, chairman of the Czech Centre (1963-70), depicting a meeting between members of the Czech Centre's first Board. From left to right, with...
Jiří Stránský
Photograph of Jiří Stránský, poet, playwright, filmmaker, and president of the Czech Centre (1992-2006). Stránský was made a political prisoner under the Communist regime in both 1953 and 1974....