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...
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...
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...
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...