Women Writers Committee in Dakar
Photograph of Women Writers Committee members at the 73rd PEN International Congress in Dakar, Senegal, which took place on 4-11 July 2007 and was titled The World and Human...
Princess Nandi Zulu reading Women's Manifesto
Video in which Her Royal Highness Princess Nandi Zulu of the Zulu Royal House reads PEN International's Women's Manifesto in Zulu (which she herself translated), directed by Mattias Axelsson...
Changing the Charter in English
Electronically typed document concerning changes to Article 3 of the PEN International Charter, f. 1. This document (in its English version) affirms modifications to the Charter that were passed...
Women's Manifsto launch in Buenos Aires
Photograph PEN members after the presentation of the Women's Manifesto at the Buenos Aires Congress of Latin American PEN Centres that was held on 26-28 July 2018. From left...
Clement and the Dalai Lama
Photograph of Jennifer Clement, president of PEN International (2015-) at an audience with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dhamasala, India, on 4 May 2017, during a trip to...
Noma Dumezweni reading Women's Manifesto
Photograph of a conference co-organised by ICORN and PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee that was held in Rotterdam on 29-31 May 2019 and titled At Home Everywhere. Here,...
Invitation to launch of Women's Manifesto
Invitation to an event held to launch PEN International's Women's Manifesto - a pledge made by PEN to endorse principles of non-violence, safety, education, equality, access and parity for...
Nicola Sturgeon receives Women's Manifesto
Photograph of Nicola Sturgeon, second from the left, First Minister of Scotland, receiving the Women's Manifesto from Jennifer Clement, end on the left, president of PEN International (2015-), with...
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka recieves Women's Manifesto
Photograph of UN under-secretary-general and executive director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, on the left, recieving the PEN International Women’s Manifesto from Jennifer Clement, president of PEN International (2015-)....
Sofi Oksanen recieves Women's Manifesto
Photograph of the Finnish writer and playright Sofi Oksanen, on the right, receiving the PEN International Women’s Manifesto from Jennifer Clement, president of PEN International (2015-). PEN launched the...
Clement's speech upon becoming PEN president
Photograph of Jennifer Clement, president of PEN International (2015-), speaking at the 81st PEN International Congress in Quebec City after being elected the first woman president of PEN International....
Solomon and Clement's exchange on PEN Charter
Screenshot of an email exchange between Jennifer Clement, president of PEN International (2015-), and Andrew Solomon, president of the American Centre (2015-18) that took place on 22 May 2016,...
Vera Iversen
Photograph of Vera Iversen, member of the Central Asian Centre, the Norwegian Centre, and the Women Writers Committee. This photograph was taken at the 80th PEN International Congress in...
WWC group in Reykjavík
Photograph of Women Writers Committee members at the 79th PEN International Congress in Reykjavík, Iceland, which was held on 9-12 September 2013 and titled Digital Frontiers: Linguistic Rights and...
Committee members at Status of Women session
Photograph of Women Writers Committee members at a session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. From left to right are: Sarah Clarke, former policy and...
Kathmann and Tsung Su at UN session
Photograph of Lucina Kathmann, on the right, former president of the San Miguel de Allende Centre, vice-president emerita of PEN International (2003-) and chair of the Women Writers Committee...
Kathmann welcomed by the Melbourne Centre
Photograph of Lucina Kathmann, former president of the San Miguel de Allende Centre, vice-president emerita of PEN International (2003-) and chair of the Women Writers Committee (1996-2000), being welcomed...
Women writers protest at New York Congress
Photograph of delegates in a debate at the 48th PEN International Congress in New York, USA, which was held on 12-17 June 1986 and titled The Writer’s Imagination And...
Martha Cerda
Photograph of Martha Cerda, president emerita of the Guadalajara Centre and chair of the Women Writers Committee (2000-03).
Meredith Tax
Photograph of Meredith Tax, first president of the Women Writers Committee (1991-94).
Outside Keur Birago Centre in Dakar
Photograph of PEN members gathered outside the Keur Birago Centre in Dakar in 2000. From left to right at the very front are: Lucina Kathmann, former president of the...
Ma Thida and Lucina Kathmann
Photograph of Ma Thida, on the left, president of the Myanmar Centre (2013-16), Board member of PEN International (2016-) and member of the Women Writers Committee, and Lucina Kathmann,...
Ma Thida and Phina So
Photograph of Phina So, on the left, chair of the Cambodian Centre's Women Writers Committee, and Ma Thida, on the right, president of the Myanmar Centre (2013-16), Board member...
HERstory exhibition in New York
Photograph of Lucina Kathmann, on the left, former president of the San Miguel de Allende Centre, vice-president emerita of PEN International (2003-) and chair of the Women Writers Committee...
Lucina Kathmann at UN Commission
Photograph of Lucina Kathmann, former president of the San Miguel de Allende Centre, vice-president emerita of PEN International (2003-) and chair of the Women Writers Committee (1996-2000), speaking at...
WWC members in Iceland
Photograph of Women Writers Committee members in the Blue Lagoon in Iceland between meetings at the 79th PEN International Congress in Reykjavík, which took place on 9-12 September 2013....
Kathmann and Mintegi in Korea
Photograph of Lucina Kathmann, on the left, former president of the San Miguel de Allende Centre, vice-president emerita of PEN International (2003-) and chair of the Women Writers Committee...
Greta Rana
Photograph of Greta Rana, founder of the Nepalese Centre and chair of the Women Writers Committee (1994-96).
Committee members in Dakar
Photograph of Women Writers Committee members at a meeting held in the Senate Chamber in Dakar in 2000. From left to right are: Lucina Kathmann, former president of the...
Judith Rodriguez
Photograph of Judith Rodriguez, president (1989-92) and vice-president of the Melbourne Centre (1992-2007), member of PEN International's Board (2001-06), chair of the Search Committee (2008-09; 2009-12), member of the...
Elisabeth Nordgren and Philo Ikonya
Photograph of Elisabeth Nordgren, on the left, chair of the Women Writers Committee (2015-18), and Philo Ikonya, on the right, former president of the Kenyan Centre. This photograph may...
Starcevic and Kathmann at UN demonstration
Photograph of Elizabeth Starcevic, on the left, former president of the San Miguel de Allende Centre and member of the Women Writers Committee, and Lucina Kathmann, on the right,...
Nawal El Saadawi
Photograph of the Egyptian feminist, novelist, psychiatrist and activist Nawal El Saadawi (Nawāl Saʻdāwī). El Saadawi was the first human rights case to be taken up by the Women...
Iqbāl Barakah
Photograph of Iqbāl Barakah, chair of the Women Writers Committee (2012-15).
Boat trip to Elephanta Island
Photograph of Women Writers Committee members on a boat trip to Elephanta Island in Mumbai Harbour in October 2018. From left to right are: Sarah Lawson, member of the...
Volume 1 of The Network/Le Réseau/La Red
Front cover of The Network/Le Réseau/La Red, Vol. 1, no. 1 (Autumn 1993). This is the cover of the first ever edition of The Network/Le Réseau/La Red - a...
Anisa Sabiri
Photograph of the writer and filmmaker Anisa Sabiri, who was a special guest of the Women Writers Committee at the 80th PEN International Congress in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, which was...
Bêrîvan Doskî
Photograph of Bêrîvan Doskî, vice-president (2013-16), co-president (2016-19) and honorary president (2019-) of the Kurdish Centre, and member of the Women Writers Committee.
Members at 78th Congress in Korea
Photograph of Women Writers Committee members at the 78th PEN International Congress in Gyeongju, Korea, which was held on 9-14 September 2012. From left to right are: Alicia Quiñones,...
Davidoff interviewed about PEN Piensa
Screenshot showing Aline Davidoff, president of the Mexican Centre (2013-15) and member of the Women Writers Committee, speaking to Alberto Aranda from Canal 22 during a televised interview held...