Ladrang Kelsang
Photograph of Ladrang Kelsang, president of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre (1999-2003).
Sonam Gyantsen
Photograph of Sonam Gyantsen, president of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre (2019-22).
Tibetan research journal, volume 1
Front cover of the first edition of a report titled Research Journal of Tibetan Writers Abroad PEN, which was published by the Centre in 2000.
Tibetan research journal, volume 2
Front cover of the second edition of a report titled Research Journal of Tibetan Writers Abroad PEN, which was published by the Centre in 2001.
Restless Himalayas by Dolma Kyab
Front covers of two copies of Sao dong de Ximalayashan (Restless Himalayas) by Dolma Kyab in their Tibetan and Chinese language versions, published in 2007. The Tibetan writer and...
TLRC meeting in Girona in 2014
Photograph of delegates at a meeting of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee that was hosted by the Catalan Centre and held at Centre Cultural La Mercè in Girona...
Speaker on Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2016
Photograph of a member of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre speaking at an event organised by the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre for Day of the Imprisoned Writer, 15 November...
Tibetan Centre's 1st Congress
Booklet and event programme distributed to guests at the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre's first ever Centre Congress, which was held in Dharamsala on 19-21 March 2000.
Tibetan Centre's PEN Class poetry
Electronic copy of poems written by participants in a workshop titled PEN Class, ff. 5. This workshop was held by the Tibetan Writers Centre in Dharamsala in 2016.
Censorship in Tibet report
Cover of a report published by the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre and the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy titled Censorship in Tibet.
Fifty years of Tibetan poetry anthology
Front cover of Kyab, Lhamo, Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre, eds. Fifty Years of the Best Collected Poems in Exile. Cowbridge: The Langtail Press, 2012. This poetry anthology was compiled...
PEN International commemorates Lobsang Chokta
Electronically typed letter from PEN International to the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre, London, 8 January 2016; heading: «PEN International», ff. 2. In this letter Jennifer Clement, president of PEN...
Guild of Tibetan Writers' newsletter
Copy of the first English-language newsletter of the Guild of Tibetan Writers, titled "Dedicated to Protecting a Precious Culture", 2002, ff. 4. The Guild of Tibetan writers was established...
PEN Charter in Tibetan
Electronic copy of PEN International's Charter translated into Tibetan.
PEN Class lecture certificate
Certificate awarded to a participant of a lecture held during a workshop titled PEN Class, which was organised by the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre and took place in...
Delegates at Quebec Congress
Photograph of delegates at the 81st PEN International in Quebec City, Canada, which was held on 13-16 October 2015. From left to right are: Arik Gethong, member of the...
For Freedom and Equality book
Front cover of a book published by the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre and the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy for Day of the Imprisoned Writer on 15...
PEN Class winner's certificate
Certificate awarded to the winner of a workshop titled PEN Class held by the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre in 2016.
Performance at Tibetan Centre's Congress
Photograph of a performance taking place during the 5th Congress of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre, which was held at Hotel Norbu House in Dharamsala on 9-10 January 2016.
Tibetan Centre's 5th Congress
Photograph of panellists at the 5th Congress of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre, which was held at Hotel Norbu House in Dharamsala on 9-10 January 2016.
Tibetan Board at 5th Congress
Photograph of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre's Executive Board seated outside during the 5th Congress of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre, which was held at Hotel Norbu House in...
Speaker on World Poetry Day
Photograph of a member of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre speaking at an event organised by the Centre for World Poetry Day on 21 March 2016. This event was...
Presenting on World Poetry Day
Photograph of a member of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre speaking at an event organised by the Centre for World Poetry Day on 21 March 2016. This event was...
80th PEN Congress delegates
Photograph of delegates at the 80th PEN International Congress in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, which was held from 29 September to 2 October 2014. Among them are members from the Tibetan...
80th PEN Congress panellists
Photograph of delegates taking part in a panel event held during the 80th PEN International Congress in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, which was held from 29 September to 2 October 2014....
Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2016 speakers
Photograph of guest speakers at an event organised by the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre for Day of the Imprisoned Writer on 15 November 2016. This event was co-organised with...
Tibetan Centre's 4th Congress
Photograph of Chabdak Lhamo Kyab, president of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre (2004-15), on the left, and His Eminence the 11th Kirti Rinpoche, on the right, at the 4th...
Nyima Tso on World Poetry Day 2018
Photograph of Nyima Tso, secretary and treasurer of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre (2016-), speaking at an event organised by the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre for World Poetry Day...
World Poetry Day 2018 in Sarah
Photograph of speakers and the audience at an event organised by the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre for World Poetry Day on 21 March 2018. This event was held at...
TLRC delegates in Bengaluru
Photograph of PEN members at a meeting of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee that was held on 26-29 April 2017 in Bengaluru, India. From left to right are:...
TLRC Meeting in Bengaluru
Photograph of all the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee delegates who gathered in Bengaluru, India, for a meeting held on 26-29 April 2017. PEN Centres from Switzerland, Norway, Kazakhstan,...
Lhoudoup Palsang on Day of the Imprisoned Writer
Photograph of Lhoudoup Palsang, president of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre (2016-19), speaking at an event organised by the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre for Day of the Imprisoned Writer...
Women's Day event in Dharamsala
Photograph of participants arriving to an event organised by the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre for International Women's Day on 8 March 2016. This event was held at the Dolma...
Participant on International Women's Day in Dharamsala
Photograph of a participant speaking at an event organised by the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre for International Women's Day on 8 March 2016. This event was held at the...
International Women's Day event in Dharamsala
Photograph of the audience and speakers at an event organised by the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre for International Women's Day, 8 March 2016. This event was held at the...
Tibetan writers awarded trophies
Photograph of Tibetan writers being awarded golden trophies at the first conference of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre, which was held on 19-21 March 2003 in Dharamsala, where the...
Meet and greet in Dharamsala
Photograph of members of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre and guests at a meet and greet session with Carles Torner, executive director of PEN International (2014-20), and Jennifer Clement,...
Panellists and guests at Norbu House
Photograph of guests and speakers gathered for a panel discussion held on 7 April 2017 at Hotel Norbu House in Dharamsala titled Intersection of Language, Culture and Identity. This...
Speakers at Language, Culture and Identity event
Photograph of speakers at a panel discussion held on 7 April 2017 at Hotel Norbu House in Dharamsala titled Intersection of Language, Culture and Identity. This event was co-organised...
Tibetan delegation at 81st Congress
Photograph of Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre delegates speaking at a filmed conference during the 81st PEN International Congress in Quebec City, Canada, which was held on 13-16 October 2015....
Language, Culture and Identity event flyer
Flyer for a panel discussion held on 7 April 2017 at Hotel Norbu House in Dharamsala titled Intersection of Language, Culture and Identity. This event was co-organised by the...
Chabdak Lhamo Kyab
Photograph of Chabdak Lhamo Kyab, president of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre (2004-15). As well as chairing the Centre and working as a Tibetan language professor, the writer and...
Lhoudoup Palsang on World Poetry Day
Photograph of Lhoudoup Palsang, president of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre (2016-19), speaking at an event organised by the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre for World Poetry Day, 21 March...
Copy of Chistok Melong
Copy of _Chitsok Melong (The Mirror Of Society), Dharamsala: Tibetan PEN, 30 September 2013: 1-6. Chistok Melong, the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre's monthly publication, was first printed in 2000...
Holding photographs of imprisoned writers
Photograph of guests and members of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre holding up photographs of persecuted writers at an event co-organised with the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and...
Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2015
Photograph of guests and members of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre holding up programmes, reports, and a banner at an event organised by the Centre for Day of the...
Lokdun speaking to press before conference
Photograph of Lokdun, vice-president of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre (2016-22), speaking to the press before a conference held with a delegation from PEN Interational in Dharamsala in May...
Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre 2016
Photograph of members and the Board of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre at the Centre's headquarters in Dharamsala in 2016.
Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre Board 2019
Photograph of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre's Executive Board in 2019. This photograph was most likely taken in Dharamsala, where the Centre is based.
Audience with the Dalai Lama
Photograph of Carles Torner, on the right, executive director of PEN International (2014-20), and Jennifer Clement, centre, president of PEN International (2015-), at an audience with His Holiness the...
Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre Board 2016-18
Photograph of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre's Executive Board 2016-18. During these years Lhoudoup Palsang (second from left at the back) was the Centre's president, and Nyima Tso (to...
Translated children's books
Photograph of a series of childrens books, a total of 28 of which were translated into Tibetan by members of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre in 2018.
PEN International press conference in Dharamsala
Photograph of Carles Torner, on the left, executive director of PEN International (2014-20), and Jennifer Clement, on the right, president of PEN International (2015-), at a press conference that...
Report on Imprisoned Tibetan Writers
Front cover of a report with the English title "A Report on Imprisoned Tibetan Writers", which was published by the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre for an event held on...
Day of Imprisoned Writer 2017 flyer
Poster displaying the details of an event held for Day of the Imprisoned Writer on 15 November 2017. This event was co-organised by the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre and...
Holding the Day of Imprisoned Writer report
Photograph of members of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre holding reports with the English title "A Report on Imprisoned Tibetan Writers", which was issued to guests at an event...
Drawing of a man by Dolma Kyab
Pencil drawing of a man by Dolma Kyab (pen-name Lobsang Kelsang Gyatso), completed whilst he was imprisoned in Chushur Prison in northern Lhasa. Kyab, a Tibetan writer and teacher...
Drawing of a woman by Dolma Kyab
Pencil drawing of a woman by Dolma Kyab (pen-name Lobsang Kelsang Gyatso), completed whilst he was imprisoned in Chushur Prison in northern Lhasa. Kyab, a Tibetan writer and teacher...
Lion by Dolma Kyab
Pencil drawing of a lion by Dolma Kyab (pen-name Lobsang Kelsang Gyatso), completed whilst he was imprisoned in Chushur Prison in northern Lhasa. Kyab, a Tibetan writer and teacher...
Tibetan Mastiff by Dolma Kyab
Pencil drawing of a Tibetan Mastiff by Dolma Kyab (pen-name Lobsang Kelsang Gyatso), completed whilst he was imprisoned in Chushur Prison in northern Lhasa. Kyab, a Tibetan writer and...
Tibetan woman by Dolma Kyab
Painting of a Tibetan nomadic woman by Dolma Kyab (pen-name Lobsang Kelsang Gyatso), completed whilst he was imprisoned in Chushur Prison in northern Lhasa. Kyab, a Tibetan writer and...
Dolma Kyab
Photograph of Dolma Kyab (pen-name Lobsang Kelsang Gyatso) in Arig, his home village in the Tibetan province of Amdo, after being released from prison. Kyab, a Tibetan writer and...
Eagle by Dolma Kyab
Pencil drawing of an eagle by Dolma Kyab (pen-name Lobsang Kelsang Gyatso), completed whilst he was imprisoned in Chushur Prison in northern Lhasa. Kyab, a Tibetan writer and teacher...
Day of the Imprisoned Writer with Kirti Rinpoche
Photograph of guests at an event held for Day of the Imprisoned Writer on 15 November 2014. The guest of honour at this event was His Eminence the 11th...
Alastair Niven in Dharamsala
Photograph of Helen and Alastair Niven, president of the English Centre (2003-07), both on the left, with a member of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre. The Nivens visited the...
Geshe Lhakdor and Tashi Tsering
Photograph of Venerable Geshe Lhakdor, on the left, Director of the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives (LTWA) and a trustee of the Foundation for Universal Responsibility, and Tashi...
Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2018, Dharamsala
Photograph of guests at an event held for Day of the Imprisoned Writer on 15 November 2018. Those seated at the table are the guests of honour: Venerable Geshe...
Lokdun interviewed in Dharamsala
Photograph of Lokdun, vice-president of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre (2016-22), being interviewed during an event held for Day of the Imprisoned Writers, 15 November 2018. This event was...
Tibetan delegation supporting persecuted writers
Photograph of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre delegation holding up images of three persecuted writers and PEN cases: Gao Yu, Liu Xiaobo, and Ilham Tohti. The members holding the...
Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2017, Dharamsala
Photograph of members of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre holding reports at an event organised by the Centre for Day of the Imprisoned Writer, 15 November 2017. This event...
Lokdun at the 84th PEN Congress
Photograph of Lokdun, vice-president of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre (2016-22), speaking from a podium at the 84th PEN International Congress in Pune, India, which took place on 25-29...
Tibetan delegation at 79th PEN Congress
Photograph of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre delegation at the 79th PEN International Congress in Reykjavík, Iceland, which was held on 9-12 September 2013. From left to right, with...
Nyima Tso on World Poetry Day 2016
Photograph of Nyima Tso, secretary and treasurer of the Tibtan Writers Abroad Centre (2016-), speaking at an event organised by the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre on World Poetry Day,...
Tibetan delegates at the 80th PEN Congress
Photograph of delegates at the 80th PEN International Congress in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, which was held from 29 September to 2 October 2014. From left to right are: Kerry Wright,...
Tibetan delegation at 80th PEN Congress
Photograph of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre delegation - seated at the end three positions on the right - at the 80th PEN International Congress in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, which...
World Poetry Day 2016 in Dharamsala
Photograph of a speaker and the audience at an event organised by the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre on World Poetry Day on 21 March 2016. This event was held...
Photograph collage of World Poetry Day speakers
Collage of photographs of speakers who took part in an event organised by the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre for World Poetry Day, 21 March 2016. This event was held...
Presentation at TLRC meeting in Biel/Bienne
Photograph of panellists during a presentation at a meeting of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee, which was held in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, on 21-14 June 2018. From left to...
Poetry event during TLRC meeting in Biel/Bienne
Photograph of Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee delegates at a poetry evening held at the Neues Museum in Biel/Bienne. This event took place whilst delegates were gathered in Switzerland...
First edition of སྤྱི་ཚོགས་མེ་ལོང། (Chitsok Melong)
Front cover of the first ever edition of སྤྱི་ཚོགས་མེ་ལོང། (Chitsok Melong), the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre's monthly publication, which was first printed in 2000. The title of this paper...