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Seyhmus Diken with Ahmed Arif sculpture

Photograph of Seyhmus Diken, member of the Turkish Centre, standing beside the newly renovated sculpture of the Kurdish poet Ahmed Arif. This bust was destroyed in 2017 - and...

PEN centre:Turkish Centre  (PEN Türkiye Merkezi)
Date:[2018]
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Swiss writers supporting Sarajevo

Press release by the Swiss German Centre titled Kulturbrücke nach Sarajevo (Cultural Bridge to Sarajevo), 14 February 1994, f. 1. This press release sought to gather 2,000 signatures to...

PEN centre:Swiss German Centre  (DeutschSchweizer PEN Zentrum)
Date:14/02/1994
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PEN members arriving at Hvar

Photograph of PEN members disembarking a ship to attend the 59th PEN International Congress in Hvar/Dubrovnik, 1993, which took place from 19-24 April and was titled Place and Destiny....

PEN centre:Croatian Centre  (Hrvatski P.E.N. centar)
Date:24/04/1993
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György Konrád in Venice

Photograph of György Konrád, president of PEN International (1990-93), waiting in Venice to board a ship transporting PEN members to the 59th PEN International Congress in Hvar/Dubrovnik, 1993, which...

PEN centre:Croatian Centre  (Hrvatski P.E.N. centar)
Date:24/04/1993
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Corruption, Impunity, Silence book

Copy of Gibbons, Cara and Spratt, Beth. Corruption, Impunity, Silence: The War on Mexico’s Journalists. Toronto: PEN Canada, University of Toronto, 2011. This book examines the life-threatening circumstances journalists...

PEN centre:Canadian Centre  (PEN Canada)
Date:01/01/2011
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Plaque commemorating Eguna

Photograph of a plaque commemorating Eguna, a Basque language newspaper that was published for six months from January 1937 until General Franco's troops seized Bilbao in June 1937. This...

PEN centre:Basque Centre  (Euskal PEN)
Date:01/02/2017
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Eguna Newspaper, 1937

Copy of Eguna, 1937: 1-4. Eguna was a Basque language newspaper that was published for six months from January 1937, until General Franco's troops seized Bilbao in June 1937....

PEN centre:Basque Centre  (Euskal PEN)
Date:01/06/1937
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Benjamin Crémieux

Photograph of Benjamin Crémieux, then-secretary of the French Centre, addressing the room from a podium. Crémieux visited Buenos Aires in 1930 and was invited to preside over a dinner...

PEN centre:Argentinian Centre  (Centro PEN Argentina)
Date:22/08/1930
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Lugones speaking after the coup

Photograph of Leopoldo Lugones, an early Board member of the Argentinian Centre, speaking from a podium. A handwritten caption on the reverse side of this photograph notes that here,...

PEN centre:Argentinian Centre  (Centro PEN Argentina)
Date:01/01/1930
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The All India Centre's emergency resolution

Resolution passed at an emergency meeting of the All-India Centre's executive committee that was held in Mumbai on 23 April 1971, f. 1. This resolution states the All-India Centre's...

PEN centre:All-India Centre  (PEN All-India)
Date:23/04/1971
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Nadine Gordimer visiting the Palestinian Centre

Three photographs which were most likely taken in 1996, the year of the Palestinian Centre's 3rd International Poetry Festival. The top picture shows Palestinian Centre members visiting those who...

PEN centre:Palestinian Centre  (الرابطة الدولية للقلم-فرع فلسطين)
Date:[1996]
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Open statement from the Palestinian Centre

Electronically typed statement issued by the Palestine Centre , f. 1. In this public statement the Palestinian Centre condemns the raiding of a Palestinian television studio in East Jerusalem...

PEN centre:Palestinian Centre  (الرابطة الدولية للقلم-فرع فلسطين)
Date:[2014]
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Palestinian Centre's open letter to PEN

Electronically typed letter from Gharib Asqalani to PEN members, , 2014; heading: «Palestinian PEN (World Association of Writers)», ff. 3. In this letter Asqalani, Palestinian writer and then co-ordinator...

PEN centre:Palestinian Centre  (الرابطة الدولية للقلم-فرع فلسطين)
Date:01/01/2014
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Appeal from the Nicaraguan Centre

Video of Nicaraguan Centre members delivering an appeal for support in Managua on 18 June 2018. In this video members from the Nicaraguan Centre address fellow PEN members across...

PEN centre:Nicaraguan Centre  (PEN Nicaragua)
Date:18/06/2018
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Manifesto by Ismaïlia Samba Traoré

Manifesto titled "Manifeste des écrivains et activistes culturels du Mali", which was written by Ismaïlia Samba Traoré and issued in Bamako on 4 May 2012, ff. 2. In this...

PEN centre:Malian Centre  (PEN Mali)
Date:04/05/2012
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Cegerxwîn Cultural Centre

Photograph of workers installing the name of the Cegerxwîn Kültür Merkezi (Cegerxwîn Cultural Centre) on the Centre's building in Diyarbakir-Amed in 2014. This Centre was named after the Kurdish...

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:01/01/2014
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Broken Ehmedê Xanî statue plinth

Photograph of the empty plinth that once held a statue of the Kurdish poet Ehmedê Xanî. This statue, which stood in in Doğubayazıt-Bazîd, was torn down by Turkish authorities...

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:[2017]
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Statue of Ehmedê Xanî

Photograph of a statue of the Kurdish poet Ehmedê Xanî. This statue, which stood in Doğubayazıt-Bazîd, was torn down by Turkish authorities on 26 June 2017, as part of...

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:[2017]
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Hands from the statue of Ehmedê Xanî

Photograph of stone hands broken off from a sculpture of the Kurdish poet Ehmedê Xanî. This statue, which stood in Doğubayazıt-Bazîd, was torn down by Turkish authorities on 26...

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:[2017]
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Kurdish Centre cabinets after attack

Photograph wall cabinets at the Kurdish Centre's offices, which have been broken open and raided. On 2 February 2016, the offices of the Kurdish Centre in Sur Amed-Diyarbakir were...

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:[2016]
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Raided wall cabinets at Kurdish Centre

Photograph wall cabinets at the Kurdish Centre's offices, which have been broken open and raided. On 2 February 2016, the offices of the Kurdish Centre in Sur Amed-Diyarbakir were...

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:[2016]
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Damaged documents at the Kurdish Centre

Photograph of scattered files and documents on the floor of the Kurdish Centre's offices. On 2 February 2016, the offices of the Kurdish Centre in Sur Amed-Diyarbakir were attacked...

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:[2016]
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Scattered files and overturned desks

Photograph of scattered files and overturned furniture on the floor of the Kurdish Centre's offices. On 2 February 2016, the offices of the Kurdish Centre in Sur Amed-Diyarbakir were...

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:[2016]
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Damaged furniture at Kurdish Centre

Photograph of damaged cabinets and overturned furniture in the Kurdish Centre's offices. On 2 February 2016, the offices of the Kurdish Centre in Sur Amed-Diyarbakir were attacked and raided....

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:[2016]
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Damaged cabinets at Kurdish Centre

Photograph of raided cabinets and overturned furniture in the Kurdish Centre's offices. On 2 February 2016, the offices of the Kurdish Centre in Sur Amed-Diyarbakir were attacked and raided....

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:[2016]
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Destruction in Kurdish Centre offices

Photograph of damaged cabinets and desks in the Kudish Centre's offices. On 2 February 2016, the offices of the Kurdish Centre in Sur Amed-Diyarbakir were attacked and raided. This...

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:[2016]
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Damaged interiors of Kurdish Centre

Photograph of the damaged interior room of the Kurdish Centre, showing fire damage to furniture and walls. On 2 February 2016, the offices of the Kurdish Centre in Sur...

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:[2016]
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Kurdish Centre stairwell and doorway

Photograph of the stairwell at the Kurdish Centre looking down onto a shattered door at the entrance. On 2 February 2016, the offices of the Kurdish Centre in Sur...

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:[2016]
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Raided inner room of Kurdish Centre

Photograph of the raided and damaged interior room of the Kurdish Centre. On 2 February 2016, the offices of the Kurdish Centre in Sur Amed-Diyarbakir, were attacked and raided....

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:[2016]
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Fire damage at Kurdish Centre

Photograph of the raided and damaged interior room of the Kurdish Centre, showing fire damage to its benches. On 2 February 2016, the offices of the Kurdish Centre in...

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:[2016]
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Destroyed office at Kurdish Centre

Photograph of the raided and damaged interior room of the Kurdish Centre. On 2 February 2016, the offices of the Kurdish Centre in Sur Amed-Diyarbakir were attacked and raided....

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:[2016]
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Kurdish Centre's shattered entrance

Photograph of the Kurdish Centre's shattered entrance door beneath the Centre's name plaque. On 2 February 2016, the offices of the Kurdish Centre in Sur Amed-Diyarbakir were attacked and...

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:[2016]
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Attack on the Kurdish Centre

Photograph of the Kurdish Centre's damaged offices, showing a shattered doorway above and blown out windows below. On 2 February 2016, the offices of the Kurdish Centre in Sur...

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:[2016]
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Broken windows and sculpture

Photograph of a damaged sculpture and broken windows outside the Kurdish Centre. On 2 February 2016, the offices of the Kurdish Centre in Sur Amed-Diyarbakir were attacked and raided....

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:[2016]
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Kurdish Centre courtyard after attack

Photograph of the courtyard outside the Kurdish Centre. On 2 February 2016, the offices of the Kurdish Centre in Sur Amed-Diyarbakir were attacked and raided. This took place during...

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:[2016]
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Damaged sculptures outside Kurdish Centre

Photograph of two damaged sculptures and a broken instrument lying in the courtyard of the Kurdish Centre. On 2 February 2016, the offices of the Kurdish Centre in Sur...

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:[2016]
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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...

PEN centre:Cuban Writers in Exile Centre  (Pen Club de Escritores Cubanos en el Exilio)
Date:05/05/2004
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Speak Now or Never book

Croatian-Dubrovnik-Congress-Book-1993.pdf

Copy of Matan, Branko. Speak Now or Never: The 1933 Dubrovnik PEN Club Congress. Zagreb: Croatian PEN Centre & Most/The Bridge, 1993. This book uses archival material to retell...

PEN centre:Croatian Centre  (Hrvatski P.E.N. centar)
Date:01/01/1993
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War-damaged buildings in Kabul

Photograph showing war-damaged buildings in Kabul. This photograph was taken by Eugene Schoulgin, member of the Norwegian and Swedish Centres, president of the Writers in Prison Committee (2000-04), international...