Marche manifestive en poésie
Photograph of the Marche manifestive en poésie, which took place on 2 May 2019 in Montreal and was organised jointly by the Quebecois Centre's Women Writers Committee, La Poésie...
Blue Metropolis Festival 2019
Photograph of the panelist participating in the Racisme, Anti-racisme et Autocensure panel at the Blue Metropolis Festival 2019, which was held on 4 May 2019 in Montreal. During this...
Ruperta Bautista at the 85th Congress
Photograph of Tsotsil writer and poet Ruperta Bautista and delegates at the 85th Congress of PEN International, which took place from 30 September to 4 October 2019 in Manila....
Quebecois and Danish Centres meeting
Photograph of a meeting between Marianne Østergaard, treasurer of the Danish Centre, and members of the Quebecois Centre, which took place at the Café au Temps Perdu, in Quebec...
Greeting card by Jacques Goldstyn
Illustrated greeting card by the Quebecois author and illustrator Jacques Goldstyn in which he expresses a wish, on behalf of the Quebecois Centre, that writers would be freer to...
Minute of silence for Amanuel Asrat
Photograph of the delegates at the 81st PEN International Congress observing a minute of silence in front of Eritrean poet Amanuel Asrat's empty chair, on 15 October 2015. Asrat...
Félix Villeneuve at Free the Word!
Photograph of Félix Villeneuve, chair of the Writers in Prison Committee at the Quebecois Centre (2016-), reading poetry during the Free the Word! event, on 2 October 2019, at...
Raif Badawi's family during 81st Congress
Photograph of Raif Badawi's family taken during the 81st PEN International Congress which took place from 13 to 16 October 2015 in Quebec City. The title of the Congress...
Wendat purification ritual for the 81st Congress
Photograph of the purification ritual performed by Wendat artist Diane Picard on the 12 October 2015 during the opening day ceremony of the 81st PEN International Congress, which took...
Celebrating 15 years of Livres comme l'Air
Photograph of a mural celebrating the 15 years of the collaborative event Livres comme l'Air, during the 81st PEN International Congress. Livres comme l'Air was a yearly event organized...
Tribute reading to Zehra Doğan
Photograph of a reading event organised by the Quebecois Centre and held in tribute to Kurdish writer, journalist and artist Zehra Doğan on 30 May 2019, at the Plateau-Mont-Royal...
WiPC meeting at the 81st Congress
Photograph taken on the 13 October 2015 during the Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) meeting at the 81st PEN International Congress which took place from 13 to 16 October...
Clement during the election panel
Photograph of a discussion panel during which the three candidates to the PEN International presidency were invited to introduce themselves and answer questions from the delegates. On the left,...
La machine à poèmes
Photograph of an installation set up at the 81st PEN International Congress called La machine à poèmes, which allowed delegates to write poems on a typewriter that would then...
Staff members at the 81st Congress
Photograph of staff members from the Secretariat of PEN International working in the backstage during the 81st Congress of PEN International which took place from 13 to 16 October...
Jennifer Clement elected president of PEN International
Photograph of Jennifer Clement, president of Mexican Centre (2009-12) and president of PEN International (2015-), upon learning of her election as president of PEN International during the 81st Congress...
John Ralston Saul and Jennifer Clement
Photograph of John Ralston Saul, president of the Canadian Centre (1990-92) and president of PEN International (2009-15), on the left, and Jennifer Clement, president of Mexican Centre (2009-12) and...
Plateau-Mont-Royal Library
Photograph of Germaine Beaulieu, former chair of the Women Writers Committee at the Quebecois Centre, standing and reciting a text by the Turkish writer Ahmet Altan at the Plateau-Mont-Royal...
Empty chair for Amanuel Asrat
Photograph of the empty chair that was displayed in Place d'Youville for the Eritrean poet Amanuel Asrat, taken on 15 October 2015 during the 81st Congress of PEN International,...
African delegates at the 81st Congress
Photograph of some of the delegates from African countries who participated to the 81st Congress of PEN International which took place from 13 to 16 October 2015 in Quebec...
Women Writers Committee at the Euguélionne bookstore
Photograph of members of the Women Writers Committee of the Quebecois Centre participating to the reading event Pour mémoires - écrivaines pour la liberté, which took place on 22...
Ensaf Haidar talks at the 81st Congress
Photograph of Ensaf Haidar giving a speech in front of the empty chair of her husband, Saudi writer and activist Raif Badawi, in Place d'Youville, during the 81st Congress...
Paul Chamberland laureate of the Jacques-Brossard Award
Photograph taken during the awarding ceremony of the Jacques-Brossard/Centre québécois du P.E.N. International Award, given on a two years basis by the Quebecois Centre, to poet and essayist Paul...
Presidential candidates at the 81st Congress
Photograph of a discussion panel during which the three candidates to the PEN International presidency were invited to introduce themselves and answer questions from the delegates. From right to...
Pour mémoire - écrivaines pour la liberté
Photograph of Innu poet Joséphine Bacon, on the left, and Quebecois poet Denise Desautels, on the right, participating to the reading event Pour mémoires - écrivaines pour la liberté,...
Angye Gaona at the Trois-Rivières poetry festival
Photograph of Colombian poet and Quebecois Centre honorary member Angye Gaona, sitting on the left, delivering a poetic performance on 6 October 2018 at the Festival International de la...
Anne-Laure Mathieu and Ma Thida
Photograph of Anne-Laure Mathieu, congress organizer, on the left, and Ma Thida, founding member and president of the Myanmar Centre (2013-16), and PEN International Board member (2016-), on the...
Annie-Pénélope Dussault
Photograph of Annie-Pénélope Dussault, board member (2015-20) of the Quebecois Centre, who was in charge of managing the registrations and supporting the delegates during the 81st Congress of PEN...
Adrienne Clarkson and John Ralston Saul
Photograph of Adrienne Clarkson, 26th Governor General of Canada (1999-2005), on the left, and her husband, John Ralston Saul, president of the Canadian Centre (1990-92) and president of PEN...
Émile Martel's opening speech
Photograph of Émile Martel, president of the Quebecois Centre (2000-16), giving a speech at the Maison de la Littérature, in Quebec City, on the 12 October 2015, during the...