Enriqueta Lunez gives the keynote speech
Photograph of the poet Enriqueta Lunez giving the keynote speech at a Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee meeting titled Writing the Future in Indigenous Languages that was held in...
Nina Jaramillo at Chiapas meeting
Photograph of Nina Jaramillo, chair of the Argentinian Centre's Committee of Writers in Indigenous Languages, speaking at a Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee meeting titled Writing the Future in...
Chiapas TLRC meeting group photograph
Photograph of delegates at a Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee meeting titled Writing the Future in Indigenous Languagesthat was held in San Cristóbal de las Casas in Chiapas, Mexico,...
Presenting resolution on Philippines languages
Photograph of nine delegates from different islands and areas of the archipelago of the Phillipines presenting the Resolution on the Promotion of Language Justice and the Protection of the...
TLRC meeting in Chiapas
Photograph of members of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee at a meeting titled Writing the Future in Indigenous Languages that was held in San Cristóbal de las Casas...
Panel discussion at Manila Congress
Photograph of a panel discussion titled Writing the Future in Indigenous Languages underway on the first day of the 85th PEN International Congress in Manila, Philippines, which was held...
Fernand de Varennes at Manila Congress
Photograph of Fernand de Varennes, UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues (2017-), giving the keynote speech at the 85th PEN International Congress in Manila, Philippines, which was held from...
Celebrating Yiddish at Basha wari
Photograph of participants holding a sign to champion Yiddish at Bhasha wari, a procession in which the words ‘Truth, Freedom, Diversity’ were presented in 6,000 languages on signs to...
Bhasha wari in India
Photograph of students taking part in Bhasha wari, a procession in which the words ‘Truth, Freedom, Diversity’ were presented in 6,000 languages on signs to celebrate global languages. PEN...
Bhasha wari for global languages
Photograph of students taking part in Bhasha wari, a procession in which the words ‘Truth, Freedom, Diversity’ were presented in 6,000 languages on signs to celebrate global languages. PEN...
Speed dating event in Pune
Photograph of a 'speed dating' event between translators and authors that took place at the 84th PEN International Congress in Pune, India, which was held on 25-29 September 2018...
Torner speaking during the 84th Congress
Photograph of Carles Torner, executive director of PEN International (2014-20) and chair of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee (1996-2002), speaking at a panel event during the 84th PEN...
Lokdun presenting at TLRC meeting
Photograph of Lokdun, vice-president of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre (2016-22), presenting at panel event during a meeting of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee held in Biel/Bienne on...
Freedom of Expression panel in Biel/Bienne
Photograph of members who spoke on a panel about Freedom of Expression and Linguistic Rights at a meeting of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee held in Biel/Bienne on...
Zaw Tun honours Alix Parodi
Photograph of Zaw Tun, chair of the Myanmar Centre's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee, on the right, honouring Alix Parodi, secretary general and treasurer (2016-21) and president of the...
Panel on linguistic rights in Africa
Photograph of a panel about linguistic rights in Africa that took place during a meeting of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee held in Biel/Bienne on 21-24 June 2018....
Diagana presents Soninké poetry anthology
Photograph of Kissima Diagana, member of the Mauritanian Centre, presenting an anthology of Soninké poetry at a meeting of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee that was held in...
Simona Škrabec signs Donostia Protocol
Photograph of Simona Škrabec, chair of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee (2014-20), signing the Donostia Protocol to Ensure Language Rights. The Donostia Protocol is a tool developed by...
TLRC in Diyarbakir-Amed
Photograph of members of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee in Diyarbakir-Amed in 2005. The TLRC met in Turkey for The International PEN Diyarbakir Seminar on Cultural Diversity, which...
PEN Diyarbakir Seminar
Photograph of the panel at The International PEN Diyarbakir Seminar on Cultural Diversity, which was organised by PEN International in collaboration with the Kurdish Centre and held in Diyarbakir-Amed...
Launching the Donostia Protocol
Photograph of the organising committee at the launch of the Donostia Protocol to Ensure Language Rights - a tool developed by organisations including PEN International, Linguapax, the European Language...
TLRC meeting in Bengaluru
Photograph of a meeting of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee that was held on 26-29 April 2017 in Bengaluru, India. This meeting led to the creation of the...
Culture's Oxygen report
Cover, inner cover, contents page and preface of a PEN report titled Culture's Oxygen, 2016, ff. 4. This report, which was launched on 21 February 2017 to mark International...
Port Harcourt Book Festival panel
Photograph of the panel at a PEN event held during the 2014 edition of Port Harcourt Book Festival (UNESCO World Book Capital 2014) titled What Language Means to Literature:...
Banda at African Regional Network Meeting
Photograph of Marita Banda, a poet in the Tumbuka language and project co-ordinator of the Zambian Centre's Civil Society Project, speaking at the African Regional Network Meeting held in...
Students with Marita Banda
Photograph of students from the PEN club of Munali Secondary School representing their school at an interschool essay writing competition ceremony held at Lusaka Civic Centre in Lusaka (most...
Diarra, Mintegi and Abraham in Johannesburg
Photograph of panellists at a meeting of the PEN African Network and PEN International's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee, which took place in Johannesburg on 10-11 March 2016. From...
Women's Day panel in Johannesburg
Photograph of the Womens’s Day panel at a meeting of the PEN African Network and PEN International's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee, which took place in Johannesburg on 10-11...
TLRC delegates in Johannesburg
Photograph of Centre delegates at a meeting of the PEN African Network and PEN International's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee, which took place in Johannesburg on 10-11 March 2016....
TLRC meeting in Johannesburg
Photograph of delegates at a meeting of the PEN African Network and PEN International's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee, which took place in Johannesburg on 10-11 March 2016. From...
Closing of the Johannesburg meeting
Photograph of delegates at the closing ceremony of a meeting of the PEN African Network and PEN International's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee, which took place in Johannesburg on...
Panel at the 79th Congress
Photograph of the panel at the 79th PEN International Congress in Reykjavík, which was held on 9-12 September 2013 and titled Digital Frontiers: Linguistic Rights and Freedom of Speech....
Martxelo Otamendi in Barcelona
Photograph of Martxelo Otamendi, former director of the Basque newspaper Egunkaria and a PEN main case, at a meeting between civil society organisations that was held in Barcelona in...
Smith and Otamendi in Barcelona
Photograph of a meeting between civil society organisations that was held in Barcelona in 2004. Seated at the panel table are Joan Smith (second from the left), former chair...
Protest for Egunkaria
Photograph of demonstrators at a protest held outside the offices of the Basque newspaper Egunkaria on 20 February 2013, the day the newspaper was forcibly shut down. Egunkaria, which...
To Be Translated Or Not To Be report
Front covers in four languages (English, French, German and Catalan) of a report titled To Be Translated Or Not To Be by PEN International and Institut Ramon Llull that...
TLRC members at Girona Meeting
Photograph of Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee members in Girona for a meeting held there on 11-13 May 2011, at which the Girona Manifesto on Linguistic Rights was signed....
Jolicoeur and Samba Traoré in Johannesburg
Photograph of Louis Jolicoeur (on the right), chair of the Quebecois Centre's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee (2019-21), speaking about the Quebec Declaration on Literary Translation and Translators at...
Isidor Cònsul, chair of the TLRC
Photograph of Isidor Cònsul, chair of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee (1993-96), seated here between Aureli Argení, founder of CIEMEN (on the left) and Susana Cuevas from Mexico’s...
The World Conference on Linguistic Rights
Photograph of delegates from 61 NGOs and 41 PEN Centres, as well as 40 global experts in linguistic rights, at the World Conference on Linguistic Rights, which was held...
Per Wästberg and Wole Soyinka
Photograph of Per Wästberg, president of PEN International (1979-86), on the left, welcoming PEN Centre delegates to the 43rd PEN International Congress in Stockholm, which was held on 21-27...
Carles Torner presents the UDLR
Photograph of Carles Torner, executive director of PEN International (2014-20) and chair of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee (1996-2002), presenting the Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights at the...
Translation scheme announced in P.E.N. News
Extract from P.E.N. News, November 1928: 6. This particular issue of P.E.N. News contains an article titled "Translation Scheme" that reports on a recent agreement made between what...
PEN's Bulletin of Selected Books
Front cover of Bulletin of Selected Books / Choix de notices critiques by PEN International, Vol. 6 no. 1 (March 1955). The coinciding of missions in areas of promoting...
UNESCO conference in Venice
Page outlining the rules and procedures for delegates and observers at UNESCO's International Conference of Artists in Venice 1952, f. 1. This document was written and issued before the...
Parkhomenko and Azhgihina's report of free speech in Lviv
Photograph of Sergey Parkhomenko, member of the Moscow Centre, and Nadezhda Azhgihina, director of the Moscow Centre, presenting the report Russia's Strident Stifling of Free Speech during the 83rd...
Shirin Ebadi in Bled
Photograph of PEN members listening to Shirin Ebadi, first Iranian and first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, speaking during the 50th meeting of the Writers for...
The WfPC at the 82nd Congress
Photograph of the participants in the Writers for Peace Committee meeting, which had taken place in Amed/Diyarbakir in April 2016, presenting their conclusions to the delegates of the 82nd...
Panel on freedom of expression at the 80th Congress
Photograph taken during a panel on the freedom of expression in the context of the Russian aggression of Crimea and the Donbass, which took place during the 80th PEN...
Alain Finkielkraut at the 59th Congress
Photograph of French writer, philosopher and essayist Alain Finkielkraut, speaking during the 59th PEN International Congress, which took place on 19-24 April 1993 in Dubrovnik.
Tvrtko Kulenović
Photograph of Tvrtko Kulenović, founder and first president of the Bosnian-Herzegovina Centre (1992-96).
Goran Simić
Photograph of Bosnian poet Goran Simić, laureate of the PEN Freedom to Write Award 1994. Simić was one of the many writers who got trapped in Sarajevo as a...
Writers for Peace Committee meeting 2018
Photograph of Writers for Peace Committee's members gathered for a formal session during the 50th meeting of the Writers for Peace Committee, which took place on 18-21 April 2018...
Ferida Duraković
Photograph of Bosnian writer Ferida Duraković taken during a panel which took place at the EBRD Annual Meeting & Business Forum on 9 May 2019 in Sarajevo. Through the...
Malick Diarra and Jennifer Clement
Photograph of Malick Diarra, vice-president of the French Centre, on the left, and Jennifer Clement, president of Mexican Centre (2009-12) and president of PEN International (2015-), taken during the...
Discussion on anti-nuclear efforts
Photograph taken during a discussion which led to the drafting of a resolution against nuclear weapons, during the 50th meeting of the Writers for Peace Committee, which took place...
Protest for Liu Xiaobo in Oslo
Photograph of an image of Liu Xiaobo projected onto buildings in Oslo, Norway, above protestors campaigning for his freedom during the Nobel Prize Ceremony held at the Oslo City...
ICORN map
Map showing ICORN cities of refuge across the world in 2019. ICORN (International Cities of Refuge Network) is an organisation for cities and regions that offer long-term temporary refuge...
Shahidul Alam at At Home Everywhere
Photograph of the activist and photographer Shahidul Alam speaking at a conference that was co-organised by the Writers in Prison Committee and ICORN, which was held in Rotterdam...
Hamid's tribute to Chenjerai Hove
Photograph of Abazar A. Bagi Hamid performing at a tribute to Chenjerai Hove, which took place during a meeting co-organised by the Writers in Prison Committee and ICORN held...
Panel at Rotterdam ICORN meeting
Photograph of a panel event taking place during a meeting co-organised by the Writers in Prison Committee and ICORN, which was held in Rotterdam on 29-31 May 2019 under...
Salil Tripathi and Shahidul Alam
Photograph of Salil Tripathi, on the left, Board member of the English centre (2009-13) and chair of the Writers in Prison Committee (2015-), and the activist and photographer Shahidul...
Eide, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, and Torner
Photograph of PEN members attending a meeting co-organised by the Writers in Prison Committee and ICORN, which was held in Lillehammer from 31 May to 2 June 2017 under...
Panel in Lillehammer ICORN meeting
Photograph of panellists at a conference held during a meeting co-organised by the Writers in Prison Committee and ICORN, which was held in Lillehammer from 31 May to 2...
Zineb El Rhazoui at joint assembly
Photograph of Zineb El Rhazoui, former columnist at Charlie Hebdo (2011-17), speaking during the joint assembly of a meeting co-organised by the Writers in Prison Committee and ICORN and...
Zineb El Rhazoui at ICORN meeting
Photograph of Zineb El Rhazoui, former columnist at Charlie Hebdo (2011-17), speaking during the joint assembly of a meeting co-organised by PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee and ICORN...
Nawzat Shamdin and Basim Mardan
Photograph of panellists at a meeting co-organised by PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee and ICORN and hosted by the Netherlands Centre, which was held in Amsterdam on 26-28...
Committee in Bruges
Photograph of the committee who drafted the new Regulations and Rules of Procedure for PEN International (1996-98) meeting in Bruges in 1997. From left to right are: Carles Torner,...
Oleg Sentsov at the Frontline Club
Photograph of an event held at the Frontline Club in London on 15 November, the day of PEN International's annually observed Day of the Imprisoned Writer, in 2019. At...
Charlie Hebdo tribute
Photograph of John Ralston Saul, president of PEN International (2009-15), on the left, and Carles Torner, executive director of PEN International (2014-20) and chair of the Translation and Linguistic...
WiPC meeting in Barcelona, 2004
Photograph of delegates at the opening ceremony of a Writers in Prison Conference held in Barcelona on 16-21 May 2004. From left to right are: Carles Torner, executive director...
Antiterrorisme, écrivains et liberté d'éxpression cover by Tàpies
Front cover of a report authored by Siobhan Dowd and presented at Writers in Prison Conference held in Barcelona on 16-21 May 2004, titled Antiterrorism, Writers and Freedom of...
Cathy McCann and Larry Siems
Photograph of Cathy McCann, on the left, former researcher for the Writers in Prison Committee and Writers at Risk Protection Manager (2015-) at PEN International, with Larry Siems, on...
WiPC conference in Kathmandu
Photograph of delegates at a conference of the Writers in Prison Committee held in Kathmandu, Nepal, in 2000. The delegates who attended this conference were: Diana Ayton-Shenker (American Centre);...
WiPC members in Kathmandu
Photograph of Writers in Prison Committee members in Kathmandu for a WiPC conference held there in 2000. From left to right are: Alexander Tkachenko, founding member and general secretary...
Panel at WiPC's 6th conference
Photograph of panellists at the 6th conference of the Writers in Prison Committee, which was hosted by the Turkish Centre and held in Istanbul on 2-4 March 2006. From...
Clark and Whyatt at 6th conference
Photograph of panellists at the 6th conference of the Writers in Prison Committee, which was hosted by the Turkish Centre and held in Istanbul on 2-4 March 2006. Karin...
Jens Lohmnann
Photograph of Jens Lohmann being hugged at a PEN event. Lohmann has been a member of the Danish Centre since 1977, a member of the Centre's Board since 1987,...
Recital at the 1st WiPC conference
Photograph of a committee member reciting work at the 1st conference of the Writers in Prison Committee, which was hosted by the Danish Centre and held in Helsingør in...
1st conference of the WiPC
Photograph of the 1st conference of the Writers in Prison Committee, which was hosted by the Danish Centre and held in Helsingør in 1996. Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, then chair of...
In Other Words banner
Photograph of a street view showing the banner that was used for the biennial ICORN Network Meeting and PEN International Writers in Prison Conference, which was held in Lillehammer...
Meeting at 1st WiPC conference
Photograph of members at the 1st conference of the Writers in Prison Committee, which was hosted by the Danish Centre and held in Helsingør in 1996. From second from...
7th WiPC meeting in Glasgow
Photograph of members of the Writers in Prison Committee gathered for their 7th conference, which was held in Glasgow from 3-6 April 2008. The pages that the members can...
Global Forum for Free Expression
Photograph of members of the Writers in Prison Committee gathered for the Global Forum for Free Expression, which also acted as the WiPC's 8th annual conference, that took place...
Orhan Pamuk and Sara Whyatt
Photograph of the novelist and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, on the left, and Sara Whyatt, programme director (1990-2013) and interim executive director (2010-11) of PEN International, on the right....
"Freedom of Expression in Turkey" conference
Photograph of speakers at a panel event on “Freedom of Expression in Turkey Today”, which was held during the 6th conference of the Writers in Prison Committee. From left...
Siems and Tkachenko in Istanbul
Photograph of members at the 6th conference of the Writers in Prison Committee, which was held in Istanbul from 2-4 March 2006. Larry Siems, director of the American Centre's...
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...
Clark and Wills in Istanbul
Photograph of members at the 6th conference of the Writers in Prison Committee, which was held in Istanbul from 2-4 March 2006. Karin Clark, chair of the WiPC (2004-09),...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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-)....
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...
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...
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...
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,...