2005 PEN Congress poster
Poster advertising the 71st PEN International Congress, which was held on 14-21 June 2005 in Bled, Slovenia, and titled The Tower of Babel: a Blessing or a Curse?, Language...
2006 PEN Congress poster
Poster advertising the 72st PEN International Congress, which was held on 22-28 May 2006 in Berlin, Germany, and titled Writing in a World Without Peace.
1990 PEN Congress poster
Poster advertising the 55th PEN International Congress in Funchal, Portugal, which was held on 6-12 May 1990 and titled Language And Literatures: Unity And Diversity.
2003 PEN Congress poster
Poster advertising the 69th PEN International Congress, which took place on 22-28 November 2003, in Mexico City, Mexico, and titled Cultural Diversity and Freedom of Expression.
PEN's first Case List
Typed appendix containing PEN International's first Case List, 1960, Rio de Janeiro, f. 1. Until the mid-1980s, PEN's Case Lists were published as an addendum to the minutes of...
1993 PEN Congress poster
Poster advertising the 60th PEN International Congress in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, which was held on 6-12 September 1993 and titled Roads of Literature. This Congress was hosted by...
1999 PEN Congress poster
Poster advertising the 66th PEN International Congress in Warsaw, Poland, which was held on 15-20 June 1999 and titled Farewell to the Twentieth Century. This Congress was hosted by...
1997 PEN Congress poster
Poster advertising the 64th PEN International Congress in Edinburgh, Scotland, which was held on 5-11 August 1997 and titled Identity and Diversity. This Congress was hosted by the Scottish...
2008 PEN Congress poster
Poster advertising the 74th PEN International Congress in Bogotá, Colombia, which was held on 17-22 September 2008 and titled The Role of the Word. This Congress was hosted...
PEN Emergency Fund members in Spain
Photograph of members of the PEN Emergency Fund in Ourense for the 82nd PEN International Congress held there on 26 September to 2 October 2016 under the title Building...
2002 PEN Congress poster
Poster advertising the 68th PEN International Congress in Ohrid, Macedonia, which was held on 17-24 September 2002 and titled Borders of Freedom/Freedom of Borders. This Congress was hosted by...
Xiaobo bookstand at Tokyo Congress
Photograph of a stand set up to sell books by Liu Xiaobo, co-founder and president of the Independent Chinese Centre (2003-07), at the 76th PEN International Congress in Tokyo,...
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...
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...
Performer at PEN Congress in Senegal
Photograph of a performer at the 73rd PEN International Congress in Dakar, Senegal, which was held on 4-11 July 2007 and titled The World and Human Values.
Performance at PEN Congress in Senegal
Photograph of a performance taking place during the 73rd PEN International Congress in Dakar, Senegal, which was held on 4-11 July 2007 and titled The World and Human Values.
Committee meeting at the 71st Congress
Photograph of a Committee meeting, most likely the Writers in Prison Committee, taken on 16 June 2005 during the 71st PEN International Congress, which took place on 14-21 June...
Ljubljana Castle reception
Photograph of delegates attending a reception at Ljubljana Castle, on 17 June 2005, during the 71st PEN International Congress, which took place on 14-21 June 2005 in Bled, and...
Takeaki and delegates in Bled
Photograph of Takeaki Hori, international secretary of PEN International (2010-16), standing on the right, with delegates who attended the 71st PEN International Congress, which took place on 14-21 June...
Panel at the 71st Congress
Photograph of a panel at the 71st PEN International Congress, which took place on 14-21 June 2005 in Bled, and was titled The Tower of Babel: a Blessing or...
Delegates of the African Centres in Bled
Photograph of delegates from African Centres in conversation during the 71st PEN International Congress, which took place on 14-21 June 2005 in Bled, and was titled The Tower of...
Welcoming party at Bled Castle
Photograph of delegates attending a welcoming party at Bled Castle on 14 June 2005, during the 71st PEN International Congress, which took place on 14-21 June 2005 in Bled,...
Delegates at the welcoming party in Bled
Photograph of delegates attending a welcoming party at Bled Castle on 14 June 2005, during the 71st PEN International Congress, which took place on 14-21 June 2005 in Bled,...
Bled Island during the 71st Congress
Photograph of the Church of the Mother of God on the lake, Bled Island, taken during the 71st PEN International Congress, which took place on 14-21 June 2005 in...
Lucina Kathmann and Eric Lax in Bled
Photograph of Lucina Katmann, 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), on the...
Delegates at Bled Castle
Photograph of delegates attending a welcoming party at Bled Castle on 14 June 2005, during the 71st PEN International Congress, which took place on 14-21 June 2005 in Bled,...
Hans Magnus Enzensberger at the 43rd Congress
Photograph of German poet, writer and editor Hans Magnus Enzensberger, first on the left, taken during the 43rd PEN International Congress which took place on 21-27 May 1978 in...
Per Wästberg at the 43rd Congress
Photograph of Per Wästberg, president of PEN International (1979-86;1989-90), first on the right, during the 43rd PEN International Congress which took place on 21-27 May 1978 in Stockholm, and...
Takeaki, Dussault and Jolicoeur in Ourense
Photograph of PEN members during the 82nd PEN International Congress, which took place from 26 September to 2 October 2016 in Ourense and was titled Building literary bridges. From...
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman at the 73rd Congress
Photograph of Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, international secretary (2004-07) and vice-president emeritus of PEN International, speaking to the Assembly of Delegates during the 73rd PEN International Congress, which took place on...
Heinrich Böll at the 43rd Congress
Photograph of Heinrich Böll, president of PEN International (1971-74), in the middle, during the 43rd PEN International Congress which took place on 21-27 May 1978 in Stockholm, and was...
Global Language Park delegates messages
Photograph of delegates signing a billboard, at the Savitribai Phule Pune University, on 28 September 2018, as part of the Global Language Park project, where every Centre planted a...
TLRC presentation in Ourense
Photograph of a panel given by the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee (TLRC) during the 82nd PEN International Congress, which took place from 26 September to 2 October 2016...
Clement, Sönmez and Kaldmaa in Lviv
Photograph of Jennifer Clement, president of the Mexican Centre (2009-12) and president of PEN International (2015-), Burhan Sönmez, Board member of PEN International (2018-), and Kätlin Kaldmaa, president of...
Attendance to a panel at the 83rd Congress
Photograph of delegates attending a panel at the Lviv University during the 83rd PEN International Congress, which took place on 18-22 September 2017, in Lviv, and was titled Reclaiming...
Minute of silence in Pune
Photograph of delegates observing a minute of silence at the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi, in the gardens of the Aga Khan Palace in Pune, during the 84th PEN International...
Simona Škrabec's report at the 82nd Congress
Photograph of Simona Škrabec, chair of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee (2014-20), giving her report at the 82nd PEN International Congress, which took place from 26 September to...
Sara Whyatt and John R. Saul at the 56th Congress
Photograph of Sara Whyatt, programme director (1990-2013) and interim executive director (2010-11) of PEN International, and John Ralston Saul, president of the Canadian Centre (1990-92) and president of PEN...
Delegates at the 2006 Berlin Congress
Photograph of the delegates at the 72nd PEN International Congress in Berlin, which took place on 22-28 May 2006 and was titled Writing in a World Without Peace. This...
Angela Merkel's speech at the 72nd Congress
Photograph taken on 24 May 2006 of Angela Merkel giving a speech in front of the PEN Centres delegates at the Federal Chancellery during the 72nd PEN International Congress...
International secretary candidates at the 73rd Congress
Photograph of the candidates to the international secretary of PEN International position taken during the 73rd PEN International Congress, which took place on 4-11 July 2007 in Dakar and...
Grass and Aridjis at the 72nd Congress
Photograph of Nobel of Literature Günter Grass, facing the camera, on the left, and Homero Aridjis, president of PEN International (1997-2003), standing, during the 72nd PEN International Congress in...
Günter Grass with delegates at the 72nd Congress
Photograph of Nobel of Literature Günter Grass, third from the right, surrounded by PEN delegates during the 72nd PEN International Congress in Berlin, which took place on 22-28 May...
Delegates at the 72nd Congress in Berlin
Photograph of the delegates attending the 72nd PEN International Congress in Berlin, which took place on 22-28 May 2006 and was titled Writing in a World Without Peace. Among...
Günter Grass at the 72nd Congress
Photograph of Nobel of Literature Günter Grass pronouncing a keynote speech during the 72nd PEN International Congress in Berlin, which took place on 22-28 May 2006 and was titled...
Free the Word! at the 85th Congress
Photograph of the Free the Word! event, which took place at the Cultural Centre of the Philippines, in Manila, on 2 October 2019 during the 85th PEN International Congress,...
Francisco Sionil José at the National Museum of the Philippines
Photograph of Francisco Sionil José, founder and first president of the Philippines Centre, on the left, Komal Bahadur Chitrakar, member of the Nepalese Centre, in the middle, and Marianne...
Words Crossing Worlds: Translation/Transliteration panel
Photograph taken during the panel titled Words Crossing Worlds: Translation/Transliteration, which took place at the National Museum of the Philippines on 3 October 2019 during the 85th PEN International...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
WWC members in Iceland
Photograph of Women Writers Committee members in the Blue Lagoon in Iceland between meetings at the 79th PEN International Congress in Reykjavík, which took place on 9-12 September 2013....
Kathmann and Mintegi in Korea
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...
Elisabeth Nordgren and Philo Ikonya
Photograph of Elisabeth Nordgren, on the left, chair of the Women Writers Committee (2015-18), and Philo Ikonya, on the right, former president of the Kenyan Centre. This photograph may...
Boat trip to Elephanta Island
Photograph of Women Writers Committee members on a boat trip to Elephanta Island in Mumbai Harbour in October 2018. From left to right are: Sarah Lawson, member of the...
Anisa Sabiri
Photograph of the writer and filmmaker Anisa Sabiri, who was a special guest of the Women Writers Committee at the 80th PEN International Congress in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, which was...
Members at 78th Congress in Korea
Photograph of Women Writers Committee members at the 78th PEN International Congress in Gyeongju, Korea, which was held on 9-14 September 2012. From left to right are: Alicia Quiñones,...
Bray, See and Leedom-Ackerman in Madeira
Photograph of Richard Bray, on the left, former executive director of the USA West Centre; Carolyn See, in the middle, president at that time of the USA West Centre;...
Anna Frajlich and Clara Györgyey
Photograph of Clara Györgyey, president of the Writers in Exile American Centre (1976-2010), on the right, and Anna Frajlich, acting president of the Centre after Clara Györgyey's passing and...
Sally Baker at 2014 Congress
Photograph of Sally Baker, member of the Welsh Centre's Executive Committee, adressing the Assembly of Delegates during the 80th PEN International Congress in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, which was held from...
Promotional video for Lviv Congress
Video created by the Urkainian Centre for the 83rd PEN International Congress in Lviv, Ukraine, which was held on 18-22 September 2017 and titled Reclaiming Truth in Times...
83rd PEN Congress opening ceremony
Photograph of PEN delegates at the opening cerermony of 83rd PEN International Congress in Lviv, Ukraine, which was held on 18-22 September 2017 and titled Reclaiming Truth in...
83rd PEN Congress closing ceremony
Photograph of PEN delegates gathered for a group photograph at the 83rd PEN International Congress in Lviv, Ukraine, which was held on 18-22 September 2017 and titled Reclaiming...
Delegates at 83rd PEN Congress
Photograph of delegates at the 83rd PEN International Congress in Lviv, Ukraine, which was held on 18-22 September 2017. From left to right are: Bêrîvan Doskî, vice-president (2013-16) co-president...
Turkish Centre delegation at 82nd Congress
Photograph of Turkish Centre delegates at the 82nd PEN International Congress in Ourense, Spain, which was held from 26 September to 2 October 2016. From left to right are:...
Tarık Günersel
Photograph of Tarık Günersel, Board member of PEN International (2010-12) and president of the Turkish Centre (2007-09), at the 76th PEN International Congress in Tokyo, Japan, which was held...
Tülin Dursun and Dauji Gupta
Photograph of Tülin Dursun, on the right, general secretary of the Turkish Centre (2015-), and Dauji Gupta, president of the All-India Centre, on the left. This photograph was taken...
Turkish delegation in Ourense
Photograph of delegates at the 82nd PEN International Congress in Ourense, Spain, which was held from 26 September to 2 October 2016. From left to right are: Tarık Günersel,...
Delegates in Ourense
Photograph of delegates between meetings during the 82nd PEN International Congress in Ourense, Spain, which was held from 26 September to 2 October 2016. From left to right are:...
Trieste Centre at the 84th PEN International Congress
Photograph of the Trieste Centre's table at the Assembly of Delegates, during the 84th PEN International Congress in Pune, India. This Congress was held on 25-29 September 2018 and...
Marthe Fare and Jennifer Clement
Photograph of Nonfoh Marthe Fare, president of the Togolese Centre (2016-), on the left, and Jennifer Clement, president of Mexican Centre (2009-12) and president of PEN International (2015-), on...
Delegates at Quebec Congress
Photograph of delegates at the 81st PEN International in Quebec City, Canada, which was held on 13-16 October 2015. From left to right are: Arik Gethong, member of the...
80th PEN Congress delegates
Photograph of delegates at the 80th PEN International Congress in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, which was held from 29 September to 2 October 2014. Among them are members from the Tibetan...
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 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....
Tibetan delegation supporting persecuted writers
Photograph of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre delegation holding up images of three persecuted writers and PEN cases: Gao Yu, Liu Xiaobo, and Ilham Tohti. The members holding the...
Lokdun at the 84th PEN Congress
Photograph of Lokdun, vice-president of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre (2016-22), speaking from a podium at the 84th PEN International Congress in Pune, India, which took place on 25-29...
Tibetan delegation at 79th PEN Congress
Photograph of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre delegation at the 79th PEN International Congress in Reykjavík, Iceland, which was held on 9-12 September 2013. From left to right, with...
Tibetan delegates at the 80th PEN Congress
Photograph of delegates at the 80th PEN International Congress in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, which was held from 29 September to 2 October 2014. From left to right are: Kerry Wright,...
Tibetan delegation at 80th PEN Congress
Photograph of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre delegation - seated at the end three positions on the right - at the 80th PEN International Congress in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, which...
Nancy Chang Ing's reply to Chinese Centres
Folder of documents containing: 1 handwritten transcript by Yu Kwang-chung 余光中 of a speech made by Nancy Chang Ing 殷張蘭熙 in Caracas in 1983, ff. 4; 1 copy of...
Taipei Chinese Centre at 78th PEN Congress
Photograph of PEN delegates at the 78th PEN International Congress in Gyeongju, Korea, which was held on 9-14 September 2012. Among them are: Lin Fuan-Chan 林煥彰, first on the...
Taipei Chinese Centre group photograph in Tokyo
Photograph of PEN delegates at the 47th PEN International Congress in Tokyo in 1984. From left to right on the front row are: Lin Wen-yueh 林文月; Francisco Sionil José,...
Taipei Chinese Centre delegates in Vienna
Photograph of PEN delegates at the 56th PEN International Congress in Vienna, Austria, which was held on 3-8 November 1991. Those seated, from left to right, are: Fan Wo-tsun;...
Taipei Chinese Centre delegation in Mexico City
Photograph of members from the Taipei Chinese Centre delegation in Mexico City on 12 November 2003. From left to right are: Kao Tien-en 高天恩; Ya Hsien 瘂弦; and Chu...
Taipei Chinese Centre delegation in Edinburgh
Photograph of the Taipei Chinese Centre delegation at the 64th PEN International Congress in Edinburgh, Scotland, which was held on 5-11 August 1997. From left to right are: Kao...
Perng Ching-Hsi and G. N. Devy
Photograph of Perng Ching-Hsi 彭鏡禧, standing with the microphone, president of the Taipei Chinese Centre (2006-14), presenting gifts to the Indian literary critic and author Ganesh N. Devy, standing...
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....
Kao Tien-en interviewing Nadine Gordimer
Photograph of Kao Tien-en 高天恩 (on the left), former editor-in-chief of The Taipei Chinese PEN Quarterly, interviewing Nadine Gordimer, on the right, Nobel laureaute and former vice-president of PEN...
Mario Vargas Llosa and Yen Chia-kan
Photograph of Mario Vargas Llosa, president of PEN International (1977-80), visiting President Yen Chia-kan with members of the Taipei Chinese Centre after the 42nd PEN International Congress in 1977....
Interviewing Gao Xingjian
Photograph of Taipei Chinese Centre members with the Chinese émigré Nobel laureate Gao Xingjian 高行健, after interviewing him at the 76th PEN International Congress in Tokyo on 25 September...
Perng Ching-Hsi onstage at 84th PEN Congress
Photograph of Perng Ching-Hsi 彭鏡禧 (centre, speaking into the microphone), president of the Taipei Chinese Centre (2006-14), onstage at the 84th PEN International Congress in Pune, India. This Congress...
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,...
Taipei delegation and John Ralston Saul
Photograph of PEN delegates at the 78th PEN International Congress in Gyeongju, Korea, which was held on 9-14 September 2012, which was titled Literature, Media and Human Rights. From...
Taipei Chinese Centre delegation at 67th PEN Congress
Photograph of the Taipei Chinese Centre delegation at the 67th PEN International Congress in Moscow, which was held on 22-28 May 2000 and titled Freedom of Criticism – Criticism...
Ou In-shi and Chancellor Angela Merkel
Photograph of Ou In-shi 歐茵西 (on the left), member of the Taipei Chinese Centre, and Chancellor Angela Merkel (on the right), shaking hands at the 72nd PEN International Congress...