Delegates at the 66th PEN Congress
Photograph of PEN delegates at the 66th PEN International Congress in Warsaw, Poland, which was held on 15-20 June 1999 and titled Farewell to the Twentieth Century. From left...
Jennifer Clement and Perng Ching-Hsi
Photograph of Jennifer Clement (on the left), president of PEN International (2015-), and Perng Ching-Hsi 彭鏡禧 (on the right), president of the Taipei Chinese Centre (2006-14) at the 84th...
Taipei Centre delegates at 40th PEN Congress
Photograph of delegates at the 40th PEN International Congress in Vienna, Austria, which was held on 16-23 November 1975 and titled Thirty Years of Peace for European Writers. From...
Delegates at the 44th PEN Congress
Photograph of delegates at the 44th PEN International Congress in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which was held on 15-21 July 1979 and titled Literary Expression and Mass Communication; Literature...
Taipei Centre audience with Pope John XXIII
Photograph of a delegation from the Taipei Chinese Centre at an audience with Pope John XXIII at the Apostolic Palace in 1959. From left to right are: Lo Chia-lun...
Delegates at the 79th PEN Congress
Photograph of delegates at the 79th PEN International Congress in Reykjavík, Iceland, which took place on 9-12 September 2013, which was titled Digital Frontiers: Linguistic Rights and Freedom of...
Taipei Centre at the 46th PEN Congress
Photograph of delegates at the 46th PEN International Congress in Caracas, Venezuela, 25 September to 2 October 1983, which was titled Latin American Literature As A Crossroads Between The...
64th PEN Congress in Edinburgh
Photograph of delegates at the 64th PEN International Congress, which was held in Edinburgh on 5-11 August 1997. The title of this Congress was Identity and Diversity.
Brochure for "La Croisière des Écrivains"
Illustrated brochure titled La Croisière des Écrivains (La Crociera degli Scrittori). This brochure contains the itinerary for a writer's cruise that was organised by the Swiss Italian and Reto-Romansh...
Invitation to "La Crociera Degli Scrittori"
Typed invitation to "La Crociera Degli Scrittori". This invitation is for a writer's cruise organised by the Swiss Italian and Reto-Romansh Centre and held on 15-26 July 1989. This...
Propositions from the Suisse Romand Centre
Typed draft of a document with handwritten annotations titled "Propositions du Centre de Suisse Romand", Lausanne, June 1974. This document outlines the Centre's concerns with PEN Congresses and round...
Dubrovnik Congress memorial stone
Photograph of a memorial stone and plaque that was created to mark the 59th PEN International Congress in Hvar/Dubrovnik, Croatia, 1993. This Congress, which took place on 19-24 April...
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...
Slobodan Novak and Vlado Gotovac
Photograph of Slobodan Novak, on the left, president of the Croatian Centre (1990-2000), speaking with Vlado Gotovac, in the centre, poet, activist and member of the Croatian Centre, and...
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....
Congress in the Marin Držić Theatre
Photograph of PEN members and associates on stage at the Marin Držić Theatre in Dubrovnik. This event was held during the 59th PEN International Congress in Hvar/Dubrovnik, 1993, which...
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...
Onstage at the 59th Congress
Photograph of PEN members and associates on stage at the Marin Držić Theatre in Dubrovnik. This event took place as part of the 59th PEN International Congress in Hvar/Dubrovnik,...
Planting olive trees
Photograph of olive trees being planted by PEN members to mark the 59th PEN International Congress in Hvar/Dubrovnik, 1993, which took place on 19-24 April and was titled Place...
The 59th Congress
Photograph of all the PEN members and associates who attended the 59th PEN International Congress in Hvar/Dubrovnik, 1993, gathering on steps in Gundulićeva Poljana - the historical centre of...
György Konrád meeting Franjo Tuđman
Photograph of György Konrád, on the left, president of PEN International (1990-93), meeting FranjoTuđman, on the right, President of Croatia (1990-99). This photo was taken by Damil Kalogjera at...
Concert on Lokrum Island
Photograph of musicians sitting beside a harpsichord on Lokrum Island, near Dubrovnik. This instrument was shipped onto the island for a concert that took place on 22 April 1993,...
First members of the Catalan Centre
Photograph of PEN members with the first members of the Catalan Centre. The Catalan Centre was established in Barcelona on 19 April 1923, and this photograph was most likely...
PEN International in La Vanguardia
Copy (fragmentary) of "El XIII Congreso internacional de Pen Clubs: la sesion inaugral - Discursos de Pompeo Fabra y H.G. Wells," La Vanguardia, 22 May 1935: 7-8. This article...
Members at the 13th Congress
Photograph of PEN members and associates at the 13th PEN International Congress in Barcelona, 1935. Among them are: Clementina Arderiu, second from the left of the first row; Carles...
1st International Congress
Photograph of Catalan Centre members seated at a table during the 1st PEN International Congress, London, 1-3 May 1923. This inaugural dinner of PEN International (known at the time...
Table settings at 1st Congress
Illustrated table settings for the 1st PEN International Congress, London, 1923. This inaugural dinner of PEN International and the earliest established Centres took place in London on 1 May...
Hosting the 1935 Congress in Barcelona
Telegram from the Catalan Centre to the English Centre, , 18 May 1933, f. 1. In this telegram the Catalan Centre puts forward a proposition from their member Josep...
Reports on the 54th PEN International Congress
Copy of Callwood, June. ed.; Gibson, Graeme. "Newsletter," The Canadian Centre: P.E.N. International, no. 27 (November 1989): 4-6. This newsletter from the Canadian Centre contains two reports on...
2nd Cultural Identity Congress
Photograph of PEN members and literary associates at the Bolivian Centre's 2nd International Congress on Historical Heritage and Cultural Identity, which took place at the Centro Pedagógico y Cultural...
Farida Hossain and Nadine Gordimer
Photograph of Farida Hossain, on the left, president of the Bangladesh Centre (2003-18) with South African author and Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer, on the right. Rummana Chowdhury, member of...
Moheuddin at the 84th Congress
Photograph of Mohammad Moheuddin, general secretary of the Bangladesh Centre (2012-), who represented the Bangladesh Centre during the 84th PEN International Congress in Pune, India, 2018. This Congress took...
Participants at the 84th Congress
Photograph of PEN members at the 84th PEN International Congress in Pune, India, 2018, which took place on 25-29 September. The title of this Congress was Experiments with Truth.
The 78th Congress participants
Photograph of PEN members and literary associates at the 78th PEN International Congress, in Gyeongju, South Korea, 2012. Among them are: Wole Soyinka, who received the Nobel Prize for...
John Ralston Saul and Farida Hossain
Photograph of John Ralston Saul, on the left, president of PEN International (2009-15), with Farida Hossain, on the right, president of the Bangladesh Centre (2003-18). This photograph was taken...
Jennifer Clement and Mohammad Moheuddin
Photograph of PEN members at the 84th PEN International Congress in Pune, India, 2018, which took place on 25-29 September and was titled Experiments with Truth. Among them are...
Le Clézio and Moheuddin at the 78th Congress
Photograph of Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, on the left, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature, with Mohammad Moheuddin, on the right, general secretary of the Bangladesh Centre...
Wole Soyinka and Mohammad Moheuddin
Photograph of Mohammad Moheuddin, on the left, general secretary of the Bangladesh Centre (2012-) with Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature. This photograph was taken...
Sophia Wadia and Victoria Ocampo
Photograph of Sophia Wadia, seated in the centre, founder of the All-India Centre in 1933, with her sister, Ditabai, on the left, speaking with Victoria Ocampo, on the right,...
Ibarguren and San Martín
Photograph of Carlos Ibarguren, on the right, former president of the Argentinian Centre, meeting Melchor de Almagro San Martín, on the left, an Andalusian writer and delegate from Spain....
Japanese Centre at 14th PEN Congress
Photograph of Japanese Centre members seated with Argentininan Centre members at the 14th PEN International Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1936, which took place on 5-15 September. Carlos Ibarguren,...
Carolina Pombo de Barilari and Manuel Gálvez
Photograph of Manuel Gálvez, on the left, founder and first president of the Argentinian Centre, with Carolina Pombo de Barilari, on the right, an associate of the Argentinian Centre....
Members seated during Congress
Photograph of PEN members at a PEN Congress, with Argentinian Centre members seated at a table. Handwritten captions on the reverse side of the photograph note that amongst them...
Commemorative medallion for 34th Congress
Medallion created to commemorate the 34th PEN International Congress in New York, 1966, which was held on 12-18 June. The title of this Congress was The Writer as...
67th PEN Moscow Congress logo
Logo used for the 67th PEN International Congress in Moscow, Russia, 22-28 May 2000, which was titled Freedom of Criticism. Criticism of Freedom.
52nd PEN Congress poster
Poster advertising the 52nd PEN International Congress, in Seoul, South Korea, 28 August to 2 September 1988, which was titled Change and Permanency in Literature in a Rapidly Evolving...
Members at the 66th PEN Congress
Photograph of PEN members at the 66th International Congress in Warsaw, Poland, 15-20 June 1999, whose title was Farewell to the Twentieth Century. Among them are: Casimiro de Brito,...
Members at the 68th PEN Congress
Photograph of PEN members at the 68th PEN International Congress in Ohrid, Macedonia, 25 September to 5 October 2002, whose title was Borders of Freedom/Freedom of Borders. From left...
Ana Blandiana and Czesław Miłosz
Photograph of Ana Blandiana, founder, president (1990-2004) and honorary president (2004-) of the reconstituted Romanian Centre, on the right, with the Polish the diplomat, poet, translator and Nobel laureate...
Members at the 67th PEN Congress
Photograph of PEN members at the 67th PEN International Congress in Moscow, Russia, 22-28 May 2000, whose title was Freedom of Criticism – Criticism of Freedom. Ana Blandiana, founder...
Members at the 63rd PEN Congress
Photograph of PEN members at the 63rd PEN International Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, 7-13 November 1996, whose title was Literature and Democracy. From left to right are: Unknown; George-Emmanuelle...
Ruperta Bautista at the 85th Congress
Photograph of Tsotsil writer and poet Ruperta Bautista and delegates at the 85th Congress of PEN International, which took place from 30 September to 4 October 2019 in Manila....
Félix Villeneuve at Free the Word!
Photograph of Félix Villeneuve, chair of the Writers in Prison Committee at the Quebecois Centre (2016-), reading poetry during the Free the Word! event, on 2 October 2019, at...
Minute of silence for Amanuel Asrat
Photograph of the delegates at the 81st PEN International Congress observing a minute of silence in front of Eritrean poet Amanuel Asrat's empty chair, on 15 October 2015. Asrat...
Raif Badawi's family during 81st Congress
Photograph of Raif Badawi's family taken during the 81st PEN International Congress which took place from 13 to 16 October 2015 in Quebec City. The title of the Congress...
Wendat purification ritual for the 81st Congress
Photograph of the purification ritual performed by Wendat artist Diane Picard on the 12 October 2015 during the opening day ceremony of the 81st PEN International Congress, which took...
Celebrating 15 years of Livres comme l'Air
Photograph of a mural celebrating the 15 years of the collaborative event Livres comme l'Air, during the 81st PEN International Congress. Livres comme l'Air was a yearly event organized...
WiPC meeting at the 81st Congress
Photograph taken on the 13 October 2015 during the Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) meeting at the 81st PEN International Congress which took place from 13 to 16 October...
Clement during the election panel
Photograph of a discussion panel during which the three candidates to the PEN International presidency were invited to introduce themselves and answer questions from the delegates. On the left,...
La machine à poèmes
Photograph of an installation set up at the 81st PEN International Congress called La machine à poèmes, which allowed delegates to write poems on a typewriter that would then...
Staff members at the 81st Congress
Photograph of staff members from the Secretariat of PEN International working in the backstage during the 81st Congress of PEN International which took place from 13 to 16 October...
Jennifer Clement elected president of PEN International
Photograph of Jennifer Clement, president of Mexican Centre (2009-12) and president of PEN International (2015-), upon learning of her election as president of PEN International during the 81st Congress...
John Ralston Saul and Jennifer Clement
Photograph of John Ralston Saul, president of the Canadian Centre (1990-92) and president of PEN International (2009-15), on the left, and Jennifer Clement, president of Mexican Centre (2009-12) and...
Empty chair for Amanuel Asrat
Photograph of the empty chair that was displayed in Place d'Youville for the Eritrean poet Amanuel Asrat, taken on 15 October 2015 during the 81st Congress of PEN International,...
African delegates at the 81st Congress
Photograph of some of the delegates from African countries who participated to the 81st Congress of PEN International which took place from 13 to 16 October 2015 in Quebec...
Ensaf Haidar talks at the 81st Congress
Photograph of Ensaf Haidar giving a speech in front of the empty chair of her husband, Saudi writer and activist Raif Badawi, in Place d'Youville, during the 81st Congress...
Presidential candidates at the 81st Congress
Photograph of a discussion panel during which the three candidates to the PEN International presidency were invited to introduce themselves and answer questions from the delegates. From right to...
Anne-Laure Mathieu and Ma Thida
Photograph of Anne-Laure Mathieu, congress organizer, on the left, and Ma Thida, founding member and president of the Myanmar Centre (2013-16), and PEN International Board member (2016-), on the...
Annie-Pénélope Dussault
Photograph of Annie-Pénélope Dussault, board member (2015-20) of the Quebecois Centre, who was in charge of managing the registrations and supporting the delegates during the 81st Congress of PEN...
Adrienne Clarkson and John Ralston Saul
Photograph of Adrienne Clarkson, 26th Governor General of Canada (1999-2005), on the left, and her husband, John Ralston Saul, president of the Canadian Centre (1990-92) and president of PEN...
Émile Martel's opening speech
Photograph of Émile Martel, president of the Quebecois Centre (2000-16), giving a speech at the Maison de la Littérature, in Quebec City, on the 12 October 2015, during the...
67th PEN Moscow Congress booklet
Booklet given to PEN delegates attending the 67th PEN International Congress in Moscow, Russia, 22-28 May 2000, which was titled Freedom of Criticism. Criticism of Freedom.
The All-India Centre's first meeting
Report, agenda and letter concerning the first Annual General Meeting of the All-India Centre, ff. 3. This meeting was held in Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay) on 14 March...
Catrina Wessels and Fiona van Kerwel
Photograph of Catrina Wessels, on the left, manager of the Afrikaans Centre, and Fiona van Kerwel, on the right, member of the Afrikaans Centre, planting a tree at Savitribai...
Second board of the Afghan Centre
Photograph of the second Board of the Afghan Centre, standing in front of the first house of the Centre in Kabul. From left to right are: Eugene Schoulgin, member...
Teresa Salema's article on 55th PEN Congress
Copy of Salema, Teresa, "O pulsar da língua, a gramática dos mares", Diário de Notícias, 21 May 1990. This article by Teresa Salema (also known as Teresa Cadete), president...
PEN members during the 55th PEN Congress
Photograph of PEN members at the 55th PEN International Congress in Funchal, Madeira, which took place from 10-15 May 1990. Among them are: Casimiro de Brito, co-founder and president...
55th PEN Congress closing banquet
Photograph of writers at the closing banquet of the 55th PEN International Congress in Funchal, Madeira, which took place from 10-15 May 1990. Those seated in the forefront of...
Portuguese Centre at 55th PEN Congress
Photograph of members from the Portuguese Centre delegation at the 55th PEN International Congress in Funchal, Madeira, which took place from 10-15 May 1990. From left to right are:...
Homero Aridjis and Jacek Bocheński
Photograph of Homero Aridjis, president of PEN International (1997-2003), on the left, and Jacek Bocheński, president of the Polish Centre (1997-99), on the right, at the 66th PEN International...
Polish Centre delegation in Budapest
Photograph of a delegation from the Polish Centre at the 10th PEN International Congress in Budapest, Hungary, in 1932. Whilst in Hungary, the Polish Centre delegation stayed with the...
English delegation arriving to Poland
Photograph of a delegation from the English Centre arriving into the port of Gdynia for the 8th PEN International Congress in Warsaw, Poland, 20-25 June 1930. This Congress was...
Yiddish Centre at Warsaw Congress
Photograph of a delegation from the Yiddish Centre at the 8th PEN International Congress in Warsaw, Poland, 20-25 June 1930. From left to right are: Michał Weinzieher, art critic...
Rafting down the Dunajec river
Photograph of PEN delegates being punted down the Dunajec river gorge in the Pieniny National Park in Poland. This excursion to the Pieniny and Tatra Mountains was a conclusion...
PEN members during Warsaw Congress
Photograph of PEN members gathered together during the 8th PEN International Congress in Warsaw, Poland, 20-25 June 1930. Among them are: Catharine Amy Dawson Scott, founder of PEN International,...
John Galsworthy and Ferdynand Goetel
Photograph of John Galsworthy, on the left, co-founder and president of English Centre (1921-32) and first president of PEN International (1921-33), and Ferdynand Goetel, on the right, president of...
English delegation outside Hotel Bristol
Photograph of a delegation from the English Centre gathered outside the Britsol Hotel during their stay for the 8th PEN International Congress in Warsaw, Poland, 20-25 June 1930. Among...
1930 PEN Congress in Warsaw
Photograph of PEN members at a conference held during the 8th PEN International Congress in Warsaw, Poland, 20-25 June 1930. This Congress was attended by over one-hundred guests from...
Bookmarker of the 62nd PEN Congress
Invitation to the 62nd PEN International Congress, which took place from 26 October to 1 November 1995 in Fremantle, Australia, and was hosted by the Perth Centre. The title...
62nd PEN Congress Report
Front cover of the report from the 62nd PEN International Congress, which took place from 26 October to 1 November 1995 in Fremantle, Australia, and was hosted by the...
The 58th PEN Congress
Photograph of PEN members at the 58th PEN International Congress in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which was held from 29 November to 4 December 1992 and was titled Man...
Panel at 58th PEN Congress
Photograph of PEN members at the 58th PEN International Congress in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which was held from 29 November to 4 December 1992 and was titled Man...
The 56th PEN Congress
Two photographs of PEN members at the 56th PEN International Congress in Vienna, Austria, which was held on 3-8 November 1991 and titled New Structures of Freedom: Literature As...
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...
Heger and Siems in Belgrade
Photograph of Larry Siems, on the left, director of the American Centre's Freedom to Write and International Programmes (2000-14), and Anders Heger, on the right, president of the Norwegian...
PEN and ICORN members in Belgrade
Photograph of PEN and ICORN (International Cities of Refuge Network) members in Belgrade in October 2011. From left to right are: Elisabeth Dyvik, programme director of ICORN (2007-); Frank...
PEN Nepal after 83rd Congress
Photograph of Nepalese Centre members at a conference held after the 83rd PEN International Congress in Lviv, Ukraine, which took place from 17-24 September 2017 and was titled Reclaiming...
Argument against the approval of Moscow Centre
Typed copy of a document containing three emails from the Saint-Petersbourg Centre, Tatar Centre and Russian Centre, sent respectively on 4, 9 and 20 September 2018, to PEN International....
Moscow Centre at the 84th Congress
Photograph of the delegates from the Moscow Centre who attended the 84th PEN International Congress in Pune, India, 2018, where the Centre was officially accepted into the PEN family....
Ismaïlia Samba Traoré at the 81st PEN Congress
Photograph of Ismaïlia Samba Traoré, president of the Malian Centre (2015-), giving a speech during a conference at the 81st PEN International Congress, Quebec, Canada, 2015. This Congress, at...
78th PEN Congress group photograph
Photograph of PEN members and delegates at the 78th PEN International Congress in Gyeongju, Korea, 2012, which took place from 10-14 September and was titled Literature, Media and Human...
Outside Casa Azul in Mexico City
Photograph of PEN members standing outside the Frida Kahlo Museum (also known as La Caza Azul) in Mexico City. This photograph was most likely taken when members gathered for...
Nadine Gordimer and Emmanuele Bettini
Photograph of Nadine Gordimer, on the left, Nobel laureaute and former vice-president of PEN International, with Emanuele Bettini, on the right, then general secretary of the Italian Centre. This...
73rd PEN Congress in Dakar
Photograph of Tienchi Martin-Liao, on the left, president (2009) and co-ordinator of Writers for Peace Committee of the Independent Chinese Centre, with Emanuele Bettini, on the right, then general...
Maiping Chen and Chip Rolley
Photograph of Maiping Chen, on the left, member of the Independent Chinese Centre, with Chip Rolley, on the right, member of the American Centre and director of the PEN...
Sulan Liao at the 78th Congress
Photograph of Sulan Liao, president of the Hong Kong Chinese-Speaking Centre (2011-) giving a talk at the 78th PEN International Congress in Gyeongju, Korea. This Congress was held on...
Sulan Liao reciting poetry
Photograph of Sulan Liao, president of the Hong Kong Chinese-Speaking Centre (2011-) reciting poetry at the 78th PEN International Congress in Gyeongju, Korea, 2012. This Congress was held on...
PEN members at the 78th Congress
Photograph of PEN Members at the 78th PEN International Congress in Gyeongju, Korea, 2012. From left to right are: Hori Takeaki, secretary of PEN International (2010-16); John Ralston Saul,...
78th Congress name card
Photograph of the name card used by the Hong Kong Chinese-Speaking Centre at the 78th PEN International Congress in Gyeongju, Korea, 2012. This Congress was held on 9-15 September...
Efford, Diallo and Leedom-Ackermann at Congress
Photograph of three delegates at the 73rd PEN International Congress in Dakar, Senegal, 2007, which was held on 2-7 July and titled The World and Human Values. From left...