Poetry event during TLRC meeting in Biel/Bienne
Photograph of Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee delegates at a poetry evening held at the Neues Museum in Biel/Bienne. This event took place whilst delegates were gathered in Switzerland...
The Third Asian Writers' Conference
Photograph of writers onstage at The Third Asian Writers' Conference, which was organised and hosted by the Taipei Chinese Centre and held in Taipei on 15-22 June 1970. The...
Taipei International Book Exhibition
Photograph of Taipei Chinese Centre members at a lecture held during the Taipei International Book Exhibition which took place on 13 Febuary 2017. Among them are, from left to...
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....
Launch of Malaysia-Taiwan anthology
Photograph of participants and PEN members at a book launch of Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Taipei Chinese Centre, PEN International, ed. Anthology of Short Stories: Malaysia-Taiwan 2, Kuala Lumpur:...
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...
Translators' gathering in Taipei
Photograph of translators at a gathering that took place on 24 April 2004 in Taipei. From left to right on the front row are: Perng Ching-Hsi 彭鏡禧, president of...
Taiwan Literature book launch in Taipei
Photograph of PEN members at the book launch of Pang-yuan, Chi, et al., eds. Taiwan Literature in Chinese and English. Taipei: Commonwealth Publishing, 1999 in Taipei on October 1999....
Kuala Lumpur International Book Fair
Photograph of Taipei Chinese Centre members at the book launch of an anthology of Malaysian and Taiwanese short stories at the Kuala Lumpur International Book Fair on 1 May...
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...
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...
Suisse Romand Centre at the Geneva Book Fair 2008
Photograph of Suisse Romand Centre members with Jean Ziegler at the Geneva Book and Press Fair on 2 May 2008. From left to right are: Alexis Koutchoumow, honorary member...
PEN members at the Geneva Book Fair 2017
Photograph of PEN members at the Geneva Book and Press Fair on 29 April 2017. From left to right are: Salimata Togora, member of the Malian Centre; Alix Parodi,...
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...
Tolstoy's centenary
Photograph of a group of PEN members gathered before the Khadzhi Murat Stone, a memorial dedicated to Leo Tolstoy and inaugurated at this event, which took place on 8...
Event on Tolstoy's centenary
Photograph of Andreĭ Bitov, on the left, president of the Russian Centre (1991-2016); and Gennady Oparin, on the right, then Head of Department of the Museum-estate of Leo Tolstoy....
Presentation of The Cursed and Killed
Photograph of Yevgeni Popov, on the left, founding member and president of the Russian Centre (2017-18), and Aleksei Simonov, member of the Russian Centre, on the right, at a...
Pjesma za izbeglice event
Photograph of the audience at an event that was titled Pjesma za izbeglice (A Poem for Refugees), which took place on World Poetry Day, 21 March, in 2016 in...
Lyrikline event
Photograph of an event that was organised by the Croatian Centre in collaboration with Lyrikline, a online platform for sharing international poetry and literature. This event took place in...
Pjesma za izbeglice poster
Poster advertising an event titled Pjesma za izbeglice (A Poem for Refugees), which took place on World Poetry Day, 21 March, in 2016 in Zagreb. This literary event, which...
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,...
Nuevas Voces Literarias competition announced at the Hay Festival
Copy of an article titled "Hay PEN en el Hay," in El Universal by Sara Marcela Bozzi. This article reports on the Colombian Centre's participation in the annually celebrated...
Article announcing Tertulia Literaria Baldomero Sanín Cano
Copy of Redacción Cultural, "PEN Colombia de escritores presenta libros," El Universal, 24 May 2013. This article announces Tertulia Literaria Baldomero Sanín Cano, a literary event that took place...
Qiu Xinye
Photograph of Qiu Xinye, member of the Chinese Writers Abroad Centre, speaking to an audience at a launch of Jiong Xie's new book. The book being launched was: Xie,...
Launch of Thirteen Leaves
Photograph of attendees at the launch of Xie Jiong's new book: Xie, Jiong. Thirteen Leaves. Translated by Sam Perkins. New York: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018. This event was...
Writing workshop
Photograph of group of PEN members and associates at a poetry workshop and seminar that was co-organised by the Chinese Writers Abroad Centre and the New York Poetry division...
Xie Jiong
Photograph of Xie Jiong, member of the Chinese Writers Abroad Centre, presenting her new book: Xie, Jiong. Thirteen Leaves. Translated by Sam Perkins. New York: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform,...
Cai Tianxin's book launch
Photograph of a musical performance which took place at a book launch for a new work by the Chinese writer and university professor Cai Tianxin. This event was organised...
Event in Qiao Bao newspaper
Copy of an article published in the New York based Chinese-language newspaper Qiao Bao (The China Press) on 29 July 2018, f. 1. The article reports on a poetry...
Poetry seminar
Photograph of group of PEN members and associates at a poetry workshop and seminar that was co-organised by the Chinese Writers Abroad Centre and the New York Poetry division...
Thirteen Leaves book launch
Photograph of attendees at book launch for Xie, Jiong. Thirteen Leaves. Translated by Sam Perkins. New York: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018. The author Xie Jiong can be seen...
Invitation to a poetry recital
Invitation to a poetry recital that was organised by the Chilean Centre and held at Hotel Neruda in Santiago, on 20 July 2017.
Literatura en vivo invitation
Invitation to a poetry recital organised by the Chilean Centre, which took place at the Centro Cultural de España in Santiago on 3 November 2016. The title of this...
Latin American Centre members
Photograph of PEN members and associates at a meeting between the Latin American Centres that was held in Buenos Aires in April 2019. Among them are, from left to...
Photographs of Neruda in India
Photograph of Chilean Centre members at an event that took place in Santiago in 2018. In 2018 Ramón Hernández, second from the right, member of the Chilean Centre and...
Día Nacional del Libro 2018
Invitation from the Chilean Centre inviting Chilean writers to celebrate Día Nacional del Libro with them on 29 November 2018. This literary event was held in Santiago and focused...
International Day of Non-Violence 2018
Poster for a poetry event that was organised by the Chilean Centre and titled Jornada de Poesía por la Paz, which took place at the Centro Cultural de España...
Commemorating Anna Politkovskaya
Flyer for an event organised by The Nobel Peace Centre in collaboration with the Norwegian Centre in order to honour, commemorate and discuss the life and work of the...
Musa Mutaev and Bernt Hauge
Photograph of writers at a literary conference that was most likely held in 2009 in Trondheim. Musa Mutaev, founder and president of the Chechen Writers Centre (2006-), can be...
Literary event in Trondheim
Photograph of participants at a literary event that was held in Trondheim. From left to right are: the French poet Heda Bataeva; Mars Huke, member of the Norwegian Centre;...
Åsne Seierstad and Musa Mutaev
Copy of Trygve Lundemo, "Tsjetsjenia er fortsatt ikke trygt," Adresseavisen, 30 May 2008: 2-3. This article, whose title translates as "Chechnya is still not safe", describes an interview that...
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...
Musa Mutaev at Fortellerfestivalen
Photograph of Musa Mutaev, on the left, founder and president of the Chechen Writers Centre (2006-), onstage with the musician Øyvind Engen, in the centre, and the Norwegian artist...
Kosmorama Festival
Photograph of members and associates from the Chechen Writers Centre meeting in April at the 2007 edition of Kosmorama, an International Film Festival that is held annually in Trondheim....
Litterær Kro 2004, Exile
Poster advertising a literary event titled Litterær Kro 2004: Exil (Literary Inn 2004: Exile), which took place on 5 October 2004 at the Scapa Bar in Trondheim. Guest artists...
Mutaev at the Bjørnsonfestivalen
Photograph of Musa Mutaev, on the right, founder and president of the Chechen Writers Centre (2006-), reciting literature around an open fire at one of the events that took...
Apti Bisultanov
Photograph of the Chechen poet, writer, and member of the Chechen Writers Centre Apti Bisultanov reciting poetry at an event that was held in Trondheim.
Storholmen and Mutaev
Photograph of Musa Mutaev, on the left, founder and president of the Chechen Writers Centre (2006-), and Ingrid Storholmen, on the right, member of the Norwegian Centre. This photograph...
Bjørnsonfestivalen in 2008
Photograph of attendees at an event that took place during the 2008 edition of Bjørnsonfestivalen, an international literary festival that is held annually between August and September in Molde...
Strasser and Mutaev
Photograph of Musa Mutaev, on the right, founder and president of the Chechen Writers Centre (2006-), speaking at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2007. Johano Strasser, president of...
Writing course poster
Poster promoting a writing course that was organised by the Cambodian Centre and held on 15 May 2016, most likely in Phnom Penh, where the Centre is based.
Cambodian writers workshop
Photograph of a group of Cambodian writers who took part in a writing workshop organised by the Cambodian Centre in 2016 that was most likely held in Phnom Penh,...
Civil Society Programme presentation
Photograph of Heng Sreang, second on the right, president of the Cambodian Centre (2010-19), with writers who took part in a young writers training workshop organised by the Cambodian...
Creative Writing workshop
Photograph of a group of writers who took part in a young writers training workshop that was organised by the Cambodian Centre. This workshop was organised as part of...
Prize-winning writers
Photograph of writers holding certificates awarded for their short stories and poems, which won prizes at a competition that was held by the Cambodian Centre on 14 June 2015,...
Heng Sreang with training course participant
Photograph of Heng Sreang, on the right, president of the Cambodian Centre (2010-19), with a writer who took part in a young writers training workshop. This workshop was organised...
Young writers workshop
Photograph of writers taking part in a young writers training workshop. This workshop was organised by the Cambodian Centre and took place on 26 June 2016, most likely in...
Gathering of writers
Flyer advertising a literary event that was organised by the Cambodian Centre in collabration with the cultural centre Slab Paka. This event brought writers of all ages together to...
Student being awarded certificate
Photograph of Arnold Zable, member of the Melbourne Centre, on the right, and Heng Sreang, president of the Cambodian Centre (2010-19), on the left, awarding a certificate to a...
Training course certificate
Photograph of Arnold Zable, member of the Melbourne Centre, on the right, and Heng Sreang, president of the Cambodian Centre (2010-19), on the left, awarding a certificate to a...
Writing competition poster
Poster advertising short story and poetry writing competitions that were organised and held by the Cambodian Centre in 2015 and 2016.
Arnold Zable at writing workshop
Photograph of Melbourne Centre member Arnold Zable speaking at a writer's training course that was organised by the Cambodian Centre and held in 2013, most likely in Phnom Penh,...
Student receiving training course certificate
Photograph of Arnold Zable, member of the Melbourne Centre, on the right, and Heng Sreang, president of the Cambodian Centre (2010-19), on the left, awarding a certificate to a...
Training course participant
Photograph of Arnold Zable, member of the Melbourne Centre, on the right, and Heng Sreang, president of the Cambodian Centre (2010-19), on the left, awarding a certificate to a...
Writing workshop classroom
Photograph of students taking part in a writers training course that was organised by the Cambodian Centre and held in 2013, most likely in Phnom Penh, where the Centre...
Wilson García Mérida's Empty Chair
Photograph of PEN members at an empty chair event organised by the Bolivian Centre, which took place on 21 March 2019 - World Poetry Day - at the Centro...
Programme of events for new members
Programme for an event organised by the Bolivian Centre titled Programa Ingreso Nuevos Socios, which welcomed new members to the Centre. This event took place at the offices of...
Autocensura en Bolivia Report
Report written in 2015 by Melita del Carpio, secretary of the Bolivian Centre (2017-20), titled 'Autocensura en Bolivia', which was presented at a conference titled Autocensura y Libertad de...
World Poetry Day 2014
Brochure for a event that was organised by the Bolivian Centre as part of World Poetry Day celebrations and took place in Cochabamba on 21 March 2014. The event...
Poetry evening in Cochabamba
Poster advertising a poetry evening organised by the Cochabamba branch of the Bolivian Centre as part of celebrations taking place for World Poetry Day. This event, titled Velada Poética,...
World Poetry Day flyer
Brochure advertising events organised by the Cochabamba branch of the Bolivian Centre as part of celebrations for World Poetry Day 2009, which were held in Cochabamba on 23-24 March...
Book launch of Las últimas profecías
Photograph of members and associates from the Bolivian Centre at the launch of Anze, Sisinia Las últimas profecías, Editorial Kipus: Cochabamba, 2012. This event was organised by the Cochabamba...
World Poetry Day 2017
Photograph of members and associates from the Cochabamba branch of the Bolivian Centre celebrating World Poetry Day on 21 March 2017. Among them are: Gaby Vallejo, founder and president...
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...
Signario presentation
Photograph of PEN members and associates seated at a presentation of "Territorio de los Signos". PEN Bolivia: Signario, no.3 (September 2009). This journal is one of the Bolivian Centre's...
Launch of Escritores en Cochabamba
Photograph of Bolivian Centre members and associates at the presentation of Alba Fernández, Juan José. Escritores en Cochabamba. El último año del Siglo . Cochabamba: Los Tiempos, 1999. From...
IBBY Congress in Bolivia 2012
Photograph of members at the 5th Congreso del IBBY-Bolivia and the 3rd Congreso del IBBY del Sur 2012, which took place during the 5th Feria Internacional del Libro de...
Mulitlingual Poetry Festival
Photograph of a participant reciting text to an audience at the Multilingual Poetry Festival, an event that was organised by the Bolivian Centre and took place in Cochabamba on...
Con ojos y voz de mujer exhibition
Invitation to the opening of an Ibero-American touring exhibition titled Con ojos y voz de mujer, which took place in the headquarters of the Cochabamba based newspaper Los Tiempos...
Literary event at Los Tiempos
Photograph of Bolivian Centre members seated during a literary recital that was held at the Los Tiempos offices in Cochabamba on 11 September 1994. From left to right are:...
Homage to Suárez and Martínez
Copy of "Homenaje póstumo a Suárez y Martínez," Opinión, 18 April . This article, published in the culture section of the Cochabamba based newspaper Opinión, announces an event that...
International Book Fair of Cochabamba
Photograph of Bolivian Centre members at the Feria Internacional del Libro de Cochabamba, a book fair which takes place annually in Cochabamba. From left to right are: Oscar Ruiz;...
Mario Parić at Oorden en Woorden
Photograph of the musician Mario Parić performing at Oorden en Woorden (Places and Words), an event held as part of the Belgian Dutch-Speaking Centre's PEN Polyfoon project. This performance...
Oorden en Woorden 2015
Flyer forOorden en Woorden (Places and Words), a performance held as part of the Belgian Dutch-Speaking Centre's PEN Polyfoon project. This event took place at the Tutti Fratelli Theatre...
Oorden en Woorden 2017
Flyer for Oorden en Woorden (Places and Words), a performance held as part of the Belgian Dutch-Speaking Centre's PEN Polyfoon project. This performance took place at the Tutti Fratelli...
Interview with Enoh Meyomesse
Photograph of David van Reybrouck, on the right, member of the Belgian Dutch-Speaking Centre, interviewing the Cameroonian writer and human rights activist Enoh Meyomesse, on the left. In 2011...
Reading of Weg van Damascus
Photograph of Belgian Dutch-Speaking Centre member Annelies Verbeke, seated on the left and speaking into the microphone, in conversation with the Swedish-Syrian poet Ghayath Almadhoun, seated to Verbeke's left....
Sámi writers in Bilbao
Photograph of Sámi writers and translators from Norway, Sweden, and Finland taking part in an event held in Bilbao in June 2016. This event was organised by the Basque...
125 Languages poster
Poster created in 2015 by the Basque Centre in collaboration with the Basque Government titled 'Euskara guztion etxe guztiontzat zubi', which roughly translates to 'Euskara (Basque language) is a...
International Mother Language Day 2016
Photograph of Urtzi Urrutikoetxea, on the left, president of the Basque Centre (2015-), and Kaissa Ould Braham, on the right, a journalist from Kabylia who has been living in...
Author's Literary Evenings
Brochure created by the American Centre for their 2019 edition of Author’s Evenings, intimate literary dinners that are held annually and take place in the private homes of writers....
World Voices Festival 2018
Flyer promoting the 13th edition of the World Voices Festival, a festival organised and hosted annually by the American Centre that was founded by Salman Rushdie, president of the...
Literary Gala 2017
Poster created by the American Centre to promote its 2017 Literary Gala, whose title was Stronger Together. This gala took place at the American Natural History Museum in New...
Tribute to Chinua Achebe
Flyer for an event that paid tribute Chinua Achebe and the 50th anniversary of his novel Things Fall Apart. This event was organised by the American Centre in...
PEN America Literary Awards
Event programme for the 55th PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony, which took place in New York on 26 February 2019 and was hosted by the American comedian Hari Kondabolu....
Brooklyn LitCrawl in 2018
Flyer for a 2018 edition of LitCrawl, a literary bar crawl hosted annually by the American Centre and held in cities across the United States. LitCrawl events invite participants...
4th Montblanc Literary Gala
Extract from the Vanities section of the magazine Vanity Fair published on 1 June 1990. This page from a larger article titled PEN Pals contains press coverage from the...
An invitation to Writer's Block
Invitation to a literary event organised by the American Centre that celebrated the opening of an art installation titled Writer's Block, which was created by American artist Sheryl Oring...
2017 Bucharest International Poetry Festival
Photograph of PEN members at the 8th Bucharest International Poetry Festival, which was held on 15-21 May 2017. From left to right are: Caius Dobrescu, vice-president of the Romanian...
Mario Vargas Llosa in Bucharest
Photograph of the Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, president of PEN International (1977-80), at an event organsied by the Romanian Centre and held in Bucharest. Ana Blandiana, founder of...
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...
Tribute reading to Zehra Doğan
Photograph of a reading event organised by the Quebecois Centre and held in tribute to Kurdish writer, journalist and artist Zehra Doğan on 30 May 2019, at the Plateau-Mont-Royal...
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...
Plateau-Mont-Royal Library
Photograph of Germaine Beaulieu, former chair of the Women Writers Committee at the Quebecois Centre, standing and reciting a text by the Turkish writer Ahmet Altan at the Plateau-Mont-Royal...
Women Writers Committee at the Euguélionne bookstore
Photograph of members of the Women Writers Committee of the Quebecois Centre participating to the reading event Pour mémoires - écrivaines pour la liberté, which took place on 22...
Pour mémoire - écrivaines pour la liberté
Photograph of Innu poet Joséphine Bacon, on the left, and Quebecois poet Denise Desautels, on the right, participating to the reading event Pour mémoires - écrivaines pour la liberté,...