William Nygaard's speech on self-censoriship
Video of William Nygaard, president of the Norwegian Centre (2013-19), speaking at the International Publishers Association Congress, which was held in New Delhi, India, on 10-12 February 2018. In...
Panel discussion at United Nations
Photograph of a panel discussion held at the United Nations Office in Geneva in 2011. From left to right are: Alexis Krikorian, director of Freedom to Publish at the...
Shafak, Whyatt, Leedom-Ackerman
Photograph of PEN members at a meeting held before the 2007 Gathering in Istanbul for Freedom of Expression. From left to right are: the British-Turkish writer Elif Shafak, who...
Leedom-Ackerman at Istanbul Conference
Photograph of Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, international secretary (2004-07) and vice-president emeritus of PEN International, speaking on the panel of the Initiative for Freedom of Expression during a conference at the...
Women Writers Committee at Asia conference
Photograph of the Women Writers Committee at the 2007 International PEN Asia and Pacific Regional Conference, which was held in Hong Kong on 2-5 February 2007. Among them are:...
Press conference in Foreign Correspondents' Club
Photograph of panellists at a press conference held at the Foreign Correspondents' Club in Hong Kong during the 2007 International PEN Asia and Pacific Regional Conference, which was held...
PEN Conference in Accra
Photograph of PEN members at a conference held in Accra in 2005 in preparation for the 73rd PEN International Congress in Dakar, Senegal, 4-7 July 2007, titled The World...
Members during conference in Accra
Photograph of PEN members at a conference held in Accra in 2005 in preparation for the 73rd PEN International Congress in Senegal, 4-7 July 2007, titled The World and...
Hasenkeyf before the floods
Photograph of the ancient town of Hasenkeyf in Turkey in 2005. In this year a delegation from PEN International visted Turkey for the International PEN Diyarbakir Seminar on Cultural...
Conference in Accra
Photograph of PEN members at a conference held in Accra in 2005 in preparation for the 73rd PEN International Congress in Dakar, Senegal, 4-7 July 2007, titled The World...
Writers and PEN members in Hasenkeyf
Photograph of PEN members with Kurdish and Turkish writers gathered in the ancient town of Hasenkeyf, Turkey, in March 2005. Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, international secretary (2004-07) and vice-president emeritus of...
PEN members in Hasenkeyf
Photograph of members from PEN International and the Kurdish and Turkish Centres gathered in the ancient town of Hasenkeyf, Turkey, in March 2005. The three delegates standing at the...
Spender and Leedom-Ackermann in Turkey
Photograph of Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, on the left, international secretary (2004-07) and vice-president emeritus of PEN International, with Jane Spender, on the right, programme director at PEN International (1997-2009) and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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,...
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...
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...
Regional Conference poster
Poster advertising a conference event organised by the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Centre that was titled the Regional Conference of Literature and Culture for Peace: destruction, reconstruction, construction. This conference was held...
Catalunya: Beth Nesaf? event flyer
Flyer advertising a conference that was co-organised by the Welsh Centre in collaboration with Mercator International and the Assemblea Nacional Catalana titled Catalunya: Beth Nesaf? (Catalonia: What's Next?). This...
The Government Palace in Ulaanbaatar
Photograph of the Ural-Altay PEN Network members taken on 7 July 2011 in front of the Government Palace building, in Ulaanbaatar, city where the 3rd Ural-Altay PEN solidarity network...
Ural-Altay PEN Network members in Ulaanbaatar
Photograph of the Ural-Altay PEN Network members taken on 7 July 2011 in front of the Government Palace building, in Ulaanbaatar, city where the 3rd Ural-Altay PEN solidarity network...
Participants at the 3rd Ural-Altay PEN Network Conference in Mongolia
Photograph of the participants at the 3rd Ural-Altay PEN solidarity network Conference, which took place on 2-8 July 2011 in Ulaanbaatar/Höshöö Tsaidam. This conference gathered speakers of the Ural-Altaic...
Ural-Altay PEN Network members in Mongolia
Photograph of the Ural-Altay PEN Network members taken on 2 July 2011, most likely in the Orkhon Valley, during the 3rd Ural-Altay PEN solidarity network Conference, which took place...
The «La Richesse» Museum in Bakhchysarai
Photograph of the participants at the 4th Ural-Altay PEN solidarity network Conference in front of the Музей «Ларишес» («La Richesse» Museum), which exhibits Crimean Tatar antiquities, in Bakhchysarai. The...
Uyghur Centre members in Crimea
Photograph of members of the Uyghur Centre, most likely taken during the 4th Ural-Altay PEN solidarity network Conference, which took place in Simferopol on 17-21 June 2012. This conference...
Takeaki, Abdurusul and Ralston Saul in Crimea
Photograph taken on 19 June 2012, during the 4th Ural-Altay PEN solidarity network Conference, which took place on 17-21 June 2012 in Simferopol. From left to right: Takeaki Hori,...
Participants at the 4th Ural-Altay PEN Network Conference in Simferopol
Photograph of the participants at the 4th Ural-Altay PEN solidarity network Conference, which took place on 17-21 June 2012 in Simferopol. Standing in the middle of the photograph, with...
Uyghur Centre in Bakhchysarai
Photograph of members of the Uyghur Centre taken in the town of Bakhchysarai during the 4th Ural-Altay PEN solidarity network Conference, which took place on 17-21 June 2012 in...
Hemrayew and Elkun in Budapest
Photograph of Hamit Hemrayew, president of the Uyghur Centre (2014-), on the right, and Aziz Isa Elkun, secretary of the Uyghur Centre (2017-), during the 2nd Congress of the...
The Uyghur Centre in Budapest
Photograph of members of the Uyghur Centre taken during the 2nd Congress of the Uyghur Centre, which happened simultaneously with the Ural-Altay PEN Network Conference on 20-24 February 2011...
Uyghur Centre's second Congress
Photograph of the participants at the 2nd Congress of the Uyghur Centre, which was held simultaneously with the Ural-Altay PEN Network Conference on 20-24 February 2011 in Budapest. In...
Abdurusul and Elkun defend Nurmuhemmet Yasin
Photograph of Kaiser Abdurusul, president of the Uyghur Centre (2006-14), on the left, and Aziz Isa Elkun, secretary of the Uyghur Centre (2017-) posing in front of a banner...
The Uyghur Centre in Mongolia
Photograph of members of the Uyghur Centre posing in the Orkhon Valley on 2 July 2011. The Uyghur Centre was participating in the 3rd Ural-Altay PEN solidarity network Conference...
The 1st Ural-Altay PEN network Conference in Istanbul
Photograph of the participants at the 1st Ural-Altay PEN solidarity network Conference that took place in Istanbul, in the summer 2009. On the front row, first to the left...
The Ugandan PEN (December 2004)
Cover of The Ugandan PEN Vol. 3, no. 1 (December 2004): 1. This issue of the Ugandan Centre's newsletter features an opening article by Danson Kahyana, president of the...
Day of the Imprisoned Writer in Istanbul
Photograph of panellists at a conference organised for Day of the Imprisoned Writer on 15 November 2018 and held at Cezayir Toplantı Salonu'nda (Algeria Meeting Hall) in Istanbul. This...
Peace Committee event in Ankara
Photograph of panellists who spoke at conferences held in the cities of Ankara, Diyarbakir and Izmir, which were organised by PEN International's Writers for Peace Committee under the leadership...
Peace Conference in Diyarbakır
Photograph of panellists at the PEN 2016 Peace Conference in Diyarbakır, which was held on 25 September 2016 in Turkish, Kurdish and English. From left to right are: Halil...
5th PEN Ural-Altay Conference
Photograph of attendees of the 5th PEN Ural-Altay Solidarity Network Conference, which was held in Kyrgyzstan in July 2013 and titled "Language through Generations.... We Speak Who We Are"....
Martelli at the 2nd Regional Conference of the Trieste Centre
Photograph of Claudio H. Martelli, former president of the Trieste Centre, speaking at the 2nd Regional Conference of the Trieste Centre, which took place from 31 August to 2...
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...
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 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...
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.
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....
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...
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...
Nancy Chang Ing speaking at the 39th PEN Congress
Photograph of Nancy Chang Ing 殷張蘭熙 (far right), president of the Taipei Chinese Centre (1985-91) and vice-president of PEN International (1975-2017), speaking at the 39th PEN Congress in Jerusalem....
Members in conversation at 39th Congress
Photograph of PEN members in conversation on stage at the 39th PEN International Congress in Jerusalem, Israel, which was held on 15-22 December 1974. Among them are: Saul Bellow,...
First Asian Writers' Conference
Photograph of PEN members at the first Asian Writers’ Conference which was held in Manila, Philippines, on 26 December 1962 to 4 January 1963. Among them are: Yu Kwang-chung...
Conference on Freedom of Expression in Russia
Flyer for a conference titled Libertà d’espressione dall’Unione Sovietica alla Russia. Tempo di una nuova dissidenza ? which was organised by the Swiss Italian and Reto-Romansh Centre in collaboration...
Alix Parodi at Malian Centre colloquium
Photograph of panellists at the 2nd Colloque International des Écrivains, Journalistes et Communicateurs Traditionnels, which was organised by the Malian Centre and Mouvement Malivaleurs and held at Hôtel Massaley...
Folder for San Miguel conferences
Front of a delegate's folder containing documents relating to two of PEN International's conferences: the 4th International Writers in Prison Committee Conference and the 3rd Conference of the Latin...
Vlado Gotovac
Photograph of Vlado Gotovac, member of the Croatian Centre, on the left, and Alexandre Blokh, international secretary of PEN International (1981-98), on the right, at a conference held during...
Literary evening with Musa Mutaev
Poster advertising the cultural programme of an international conference titled Freedom of Expression: Expressions from Chechnya and Caucasus, which took place in Trondheim on 1-4 June 2005. The cultural...
Press conference in Barcelona
Photograph of PEN members at a press conference held in Barcelona on 21 January 2019. From left to right are: Àngels Gregori, president of the Catalan Centre (2018-), Jennifer...
Speaker at the World Conference on Linguistic Rights
Photograph of a speaker addressing an audience at the 1996 World Conference on Linguistic Rights. This conference was organised by PEN International's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee and Escarré...
World Conference on Linguistic Rights
Photograph of speakers at the World Conference on Linguistic Rights, which was organised by PEN International's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee and Escarré International Center for Ethnic Minorities and...
1978 International Conference
Photograph of panel speakers at the Catalan Centre's International Conference, which took place at the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona in October 1978. Among them, from left to right,...
Escritura de Mujer Conference
Front and back pages of a programme for a conference titled Escritura de Mujer, which was organised by the Bolivian Centre (at that time also known as the Committee...
Conference announced in Los Tiempos
Copy of "Coloquio 'Escritura de Mujeres'...,”Los Tiempos, 7 December 1997. This extract from a larger article announces a conference promoting and championing women’s writing, which was organised by the...
Conference announced in La Razón Cultura
Copy of Eyzaguirre, Gloria. "Las mujeres 'toman' la palabra," La Razón, December 1997. This article, published in the culture section of La Razón, reports on a conference organised by...
Audience at the Minsk Conference
Photograph of the audience seated at the 2nd International Conference in Defense of Democracy and Culture in Minsk, 1995. This conference took place from 31 August to 4 September...
Carlos Sherman and Vasil Bykaŭ
Photograph of Carlos Sherman, on the left, founding member and honorary vice-president of the Belarusian Centre (1989-2003), and Vasil Bykaŭ, on the right, president of the Belarusian Centre (1999-2003),...
Vasil Siomukha and Volha Ipatava
Photograph of Belarusian Centre members Vasil Siomukha, on the left, and Volha Ipatava, on the right, at the 2nd International Conference in Defense of Democracy and Culture in Minsk,...
Carlos Sherman and Anatol Kazlovich
Photograph of Carlos Sherman, on the left, founding member and honorary vice-president of the Belarusian Centre (1989-2003), with Belarusian journalist and writer Anatol Kazlovich, on the right. This photograph...
Belarusian writers at Minsk Conference
Photograph of Belarusian Centre members and associates at the 2nd International Conference in Defense of Democracy and Culture in Minsk, 1995. From left to right are: Belarusian writer Ala...
Kazlovich receiving Ales Adamovich Award
Photograph of Vasil Bykaŭ, on the right, president of the Belarusian Centre (1999-2003) presenting the Belarusian writer Anatol Kazlovich with an Ales Adamovich Award, the Belarusian Centre's annual non-fiction...
Bykaŭ and Baradulin at Minsk Conference
Photograph of PEN members at the 2nd International Conference in Defense of Democracy and Culture in Minsk, 1995. From left to right are: Vasil Bykaŭ, president of the Belarusian...
Sheremet receiving Ales Adamovich Award
Photograph of Pavel Sheremet, Belarusian-born Russian and Ukrainian journalist, who can be seen standing on the far left of the stage, being awarded the Ales Adamovich Award, the Belarusian...
Arloŭ and Bykaŭ on stage
Photograph of Belarusian Centre members on stage at the 2nd International Conference in Defense of Democracy and Culture in Minsk, 1995. Uladzimir Arloŭ, on the left, Board member of...
Minsk Conference in 1995
Photograph of Vasil Bykaŭ, second from the left, president of the Belarusian Centre (1999-2003); Hienadz Buraukin, second from the right, Belarusian poet, journalist and diplomat; and Uladzimir Karmilkin, far...
Svetlana Alexievich at Minsk Conference
Photograph of the Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich, seated in the middle, vice-president of PEN International (2019-) and president of the Belarusian Centre (2019-), at a book launch that took...
The Donostia Protocol
Photograph of representatives from various European associations on stage at an international summit that took place at the Kursaal Kongresu Jauregia (Kursaal Congress Centre) in Donostia-San Sebastián on 17...
Teresa Toda at WiPC Conference
Video of a panel talk that was filmed by the Basque Centre in Amsterdam on 27 May 2015. The video shows a talk given by Teresa Toda, Board member...
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...