Stoppard, Gruša and Stránský in Prague
Photograph of members of the Czech Centre in Prague in 2005. From left to right are: Tom Stoppard; Jiří Gruša, president of PEN International (2003-09); and Jiří Stránský, president...
Kurdish Centre members in Prague
Photograph of PEN members at a meeting that was hosted by the Czech Centre and took place at Restaurant Na Vlachovce in Prague on 27-29 April 2006. Zerdeşt Haco,...
Zerdeşt Haco in Prague
Photograph of Zerdeşt Haco, president (1999-2013) and honorary president (2016-) of the Kurdish Centre, standing and addressing the room from behind a table. This photograph was taken at a...
Henri Membré at the 13th Congress
Folder of documents regarding the attendance of Henri Membré, former secretary of the French Centre, at the 16th PEN International Congress in Prague, Czech Republic, 1938, ff. 3. This...
Reception for Georges Duhamel
Photograph of a reception held in honour of Georges Duhamel, member of the French Centre, who can be seen sitting on the left and looking at the camera. This...
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
Photograph of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, first President of Czechoslovakia (1918-35), who was appointed an honorary member of PEN International in the 1920s. Masaryk met with Catharine Amy Dawson Scott,...
Philip Roth and Günter Grass receive Karel Čapek Awards
Photograph of a ceremony held in Prague in 1994 at which Philip Roth and Günter Grass were awarded the inaugural Karel Čapek Award for outstanding literary achievement. This award...
Founders of the Czech Centre
Extract from Křivánek, Vladimír. Conscience of the Word: the story of Czech P.E.N. Prague: České Centrum Mezinárodního PEN Klubu, 2018. This page from Křivánek's book on the history of...
Premiere of Karlevich Marko
Photograph of PEN members at a reception held for the Yugoslavian playwright Djuro Dimkovich when he and his wife visited Prague to watch the premiere of Dimkovich's play Kralevich...
Thomas Mann and Oskar Frenkel
Photograph of the Nobel laureate and German Centre member Thomas Mann, on the left, with Oskar Frankl, on the right, director of Urania, a German adult-education society in Prague,...
Conscience of the Word book
Dust cover of Křivánek, Vladimír. Conscience of the Word. The story of Czech P.E.N. Prague: Czech Centre of International P.E.N, 2018. This book recounts the Czech Centre's history from...
Alois Jirásek
Photograph of the Czech writer Alois Jirásek, member of the English Centre and later of the Czech Centre, who became an honorary member of PEN International in 1923. The...
Debate at Prague Congress
Photograph of PEN members at a panel debate titled Where Tolerance Ends And Indifference Begins, which was held on 12 November 1994 in Prague. This debate was led by...
Czech Centre Board Caricature
Cartoon by the Czech artist Adolf Hoffmeister, chairman of the Czech Centre (1963-70), depicting a meeting between members of the Czech Centre's first Board. From left to right, with...
Jiří Stránský
Photograph of Jiří Stránský, poet, playwright, filmmaker, and president of the Czech Centre (1992-2006). Stránský was made a political prisoner under the Communist regime in both 1953 and 1974....
Cuban writers meeting Václav Havel
Photograph of Cuban delegates meeting Václav Havel, President of Czechoslovakia (1989-92) and first President of the Czech Republic (1993-2003), in Prague on 5 May 2004. From left to right...