At Home Everywhere conference

Logo for a conference that took place between ICORN and PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee and was held in Rotterdam on 29-31 May 2019. The title of this...
Video of Thomas Mann in Amsterdam

Video of Thomas Mann in Amsterdam in 1947. The German Nobel laureate Thomas Mann, who became the first president of the Centre of German-speaking Writers Abroad in 1934, was...
PEN Emergency Fund advertisement

Advertisement for the PEN Emergency Fund. Upon being appointed vice-president of PEN International, the Dutch writer A. den Doolaard (alias of Bob Spoelstra) noticed that one element was missing...
A. den Doolaard in Radio Oranje broadcast

Photograph of A. den Doolaard (alias of Bob Spoelstra), during a Radio Oranje broadcast in 1943. A. den Doolaard was an active PEN member, and in 1971 founded the...
Article on Theo Van Gogh

Copy of "P.EN Nieuwsbrief", PEN Kwartaal, (December 2004), f. 1. In this article from the December 2004 edition of the Netherlands Centre's quarterly newsletter, PEN International condemns the...
Issue 57 of PEN Kwartaal

Front cover of PEN Kwartaal, vol. 57. Until the rise of social media, members of the Netherlands Centre received a quarterly newsletter - the PEN Kwartaal. Nowadays, on the...