Škrabec at UN panel discussion
Photograph of a panel discussion held at the United Nations headquarters in New York on 11 December 2019. This event, titled #ProtectLinguists, aimed to raise awareness of the pressing...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Meeting in New York
Photograph taken during a meeting in New York of the Writers in Exile American Centre. In the centre, on the left, Clara Györgyey, president of the Centre (1976-2010) presides...
Qiu Xinye
Photograph of Qiu Xinye, member of the Chinese Writers Abroad Centre, speaking to an audience at a launch of Jiong Xie's new book. The book being launched was: Xie,...
Launch of Thirteen Leaves
Photograph of attendees at the launch of Xie Jiong's new book: Xie, Jiong. Thirteen Leaves. Translated by Sam Perkins. New York: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018. This event was...
Writing workshop
Photograph of group of PEN members and associates at a poetry workshop and seminar that was co-organised by the Chinese Writers Abroad Centre and the New York Poetry division...
Xie Jiong
Photograph of Xie Jiong, member of the Chinese Writers Abroad Centre, presenting her new book: Xie, Jiong. Thirteen Leaves. Translated by Sam Perkins. New York: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform,...
Cai Tianxin's book launch
Photograph of a musical performance which took place at a book launch for a new work by the Chinese writer and university professor Cai Tianxin. This event was organised...
Event in Qiao Bao newspaper
Copy of an article published in the New York based Chinese-language newspaper Qiao Bao (The China Press) on 29 July 2018, f. 1. The article reports on a poetry...
Poetry seminar
Photograph of group of PEN members and associates at a poetry workshop and seminar that was co-organised by the Chinese Writers Abroad Centre and the New York Poetry division...
Wang Yu's birthday celebrations
Photograph of the audience seated at Wang Yu's 80th birthday celebrations, at which Yu, who can be seen seated at the very front, was awarded a lifetime achievement award....
Thirteen Leaves book launch
Photograph of attendees at book launch for Xie, Jiong. Thirteen Leaves. Translated by Sam Perkins. New York: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018. The author Xie Jiong can be seen...
Mu Xin commemoration
Collage of photographs of Chinese Writers Abroad Centre members and associates who attended an event held to commemorate the celebrated Chinese writer Mu Xin, who died in 2011. This...
Wang Yu receiving award
Photograph of celebrated Chinese writer and poet Wang Yu, on the left, receiving a lifetime achievement award at her 80th birthday celebrations, which took place in Long Island, New...
Author's Literary Evenings
Brochure created by the American Centre for their 2019 edition of Author’s Evenings, intimate literary dinners that are held annually and take place in the private homes of writers....
World Voices Festival 2018
Flyer promoting the 13th edition of the World Voices Festival, a festival organised and hosted annually by the American Centre that was founded by Salman Rushdie, president of the...
PEN dinner in New York
Photograph of an early literary gala held by the American Centre (referred to here as The PEN Club) on 25 November at the Commodore Hotel (now the Grand...
Tribute to Chinua Achebe
Flyer for an event that paid tribute Chinua Achebe and the 50th anniversary of his novel Things Fall Apart. This event was organised by the American Centre in...
PEN America Literary Awards
Event programme for the 55th PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony, which took place in New York on 26 February 2019 and was hosted by the American comedian Hari Kondabolu....
Brooklyn LitCrawl in 2018
Flyer for a 2018 edition of LitCrawl, a literary bar crawl hosted annually by the American Centre and held in cities across the United States. LitCrawl events invite participants...
4th Montblanc Literary Gala
Extract from the Vanities section of the magazine Vanity Fair published on 1 June 1990. This page from a larger article titled PEN Pals contains press coverage from the...
Liberty Denied by Donna A. Demac
Front cover of Demac, Donna A. Liberty Denied: The Current Rise of Censorship in America. 1st ed. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990. This book, which was first published...
The American Centre's first fifty years
Front cover of Chute, Marchette. P.E.N. American Center: A History of the First Fifty Years. 1st ed. New York: PEN American Center, 1972. This retrospective by Marchette Chute, president...
An invitation to Writer's Block
Invitation to a literary event organised by the American Centre that celebrated the opening of an art installation titled Writer's Block, which was created by American artist Sheryl Oring...
The World of Translation Conference
Front cover of PEN American Center, The World of Translation, New York: PEN American Center, 1971. This book, which was written and published by the American Centre, contains an...
Letter from ICPC to the Chinese Centre
Electronically typed letter from the Independent Chinese Centre to the Chinese Centre, , 7 April 2004; heading: «Archive 37: ICPC Letter to China PEN Centre, 2004-04-07», f. 1....
ICPC registration certificate
Typed certificate of registration from the New York State Division of Corporations, State Records and UCC, 5 April 2004, ff. 3. This legal document certifies that the Independent Chinese...
ICPC Charter with revisions
Electronically typed letter from Yu Zhang to the Independent Chinese Centre, , 30 September 2003, ff. 4. In this letter Yu Zhang, member of the Independent Chinese Centre...
ICPC Charter review
Electronically typed letter from Yu Zhang and Maiping Chen to Zheng Yi, , 20 October 2002, ff. 3. In this letter Yu Zhang and Maiping Chen, two members...
Second ICPC Charter review
Electronically typed letter from Cai Chu, Meng Lang and Maiping Chen to the Independent Chinese Centre, , September 2003, ff. 3. In this letter, Cai Chu, vice-president of...
Wang Lixiong receives Freedom to Write Award
Photograph of Wang Lixiong, on the left, receiving the Freedom to Write Award. Liu Binyan, founder and first president of the Independent Chinese Centre (2002-03) can be seen presenting...