PEN International's Committee minutes, 1922

Handwritten minutes from the first meeting held by PEN International (here called the 'International PEN Committee') on 26 February 1922, f. 1. This page notes that this meeting was...
PEN meeting in Cairo

Photograph of PEN members gathered in Cairo for a meeting held there in 2006. Among them are: Ekbal Baraka, end on the left at the back, president of 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:...
PEN Board Meeting in Vienna

Photograph of members at a PEN International Board meeting that was held in Vienna in January 2007. Among them are: Eugene Schoulgin, end on the left, member of the...
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...
Škrabec at UN panel discussion

Photograph of a panel discussion held at the United Nations headquarters in New York on 11 December 2019. This event, titled #ProtectLinguists, aimed to raise awareness of the pressing...
Writing the Future in Indigenous Languages' poster

Poster for a Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee meeting titled Writing the Future in Indigenous Languages that was held in San Cristóbal de las Casas in Chiapas, Mexico, on...
Enriqueta Lunez gives the keynote speech

Photograph of the poet Enriqueta Lunez giving the keynote speech at a Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee meeting titled Writing the Future in Indigenous Languages that was held in...
Nina Jaramillo at Chiapas meeting

Photograph of Nina Jaramillo, chair of the Argentinian Centre's Committee of Writers in Indigenous Languages, speaking at a Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee meeting titled Writing the Future in...
Chiapas TLRC meeting group photograph

Photograph of delegates at a Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee meeting titled Writing the Future in Indigenous Languagesthat was held in San Cristóbal de las Casas in Chiapas, Mexico,...
TLRC meeting in Chiapas

Photograph of members of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee at a meeting titled Writing the Future in Indigenous Languages that was held in San Cristóbal de las Casas...
Lokdun presenting at TLRC meeting

Photograph of Lokdun, vice-president of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre (2016-22), presenting at panel event during a meeting of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee held in Biel/Bienne on...
Freedom of Expression panel in Biel/Bienne

Photograph of members who spoke on a panel about Freedom of Expression and Linguistic Rights at a meeting of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee held in Biel/Bienne on...
Zaw Tun honours Alix Parodi

Photograph of Zaw Tun, chair of the Myanmar Centre's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee, on the right, honouring Alix Parodi, secretary general and treasurer (2016-21) and president of the...
Diagana presents Soninké poetry anthology

Photograph of Kissima Diagana, member of the Mauritanian Centre, presenting an anthology of Soninké poetry at a meeting of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee that was held in...
Panel on linguistic rights in Africa

Photograph of a panel about linguistic rights in Africa that took place during a meeting of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee held in Biel/Bienne on 21-24 June 2018....
TLRC in Diyarbakir-Amed

Photograph of members of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee in Diyarbakir-Amed in 2005. The TLRC met in Turkey for The International PEN Diyarbakir Seminar on Cultural Diversity, which...
PEN Diyarbakir Seminar

Photograph of the panel at The International PEN Diyarbakir Seminar on Cultural Diversity, which was organised by PEN International in collaboration with the Kurdish Centre and held in Diyarbakir-Amed...
TLRC meeting in Bengaluru

Photograph of a meeting of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee that was held on 26-29 April 2017 in Bengaluru, India. This meeting led to the creation of the...
Banda at African Regional Network Meeting

Photograph of Marita Banda, a poet in the Tumbuka language and project co-ordinator of the Zambian Centre's Civil Society Project, speaking at the African Regional Network Meeting held in...
Diarra, Mintegi and Abraham in Johannesburg

Photograph of panellists at a meeting of the PEN African Network and PEN International's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee, which took place in Johannesburg on 10-11 March 2016. From...
Women's Day panel in Johannesburg

Photograph of the Womens’s Day panel at a meeting of the PEN African Network and PEN International's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee, which took place in Johannesburg on 10-11...
TLRC meeting in Johannesburg

Photograph of delegates at a meeting of the PEN African Network and PEN International's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee, which took place in Johannesburg on 10-11 March 2016. From...
TLRC delegates in Johannesburg

Photograph of Centre delegates at a meeting of the PEN African Network and PEN International's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee, which took place in Johannesburg on 10-11 March 2016....
Closing of the Johannesburg meeting

Photograph of delegates at the closing ceremony of a meeting of the PEN African Network and PEN International's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee, which took place in Johannesburg on...
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...
TLRC members at Girona Meeting

Photograph of Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee members in Girona for a meeting held there on 11-13 May 2011, at which the Girona Manifesto on Linguistic Rights was signed....
Jolicoeur and Samba Traoré in Johannesburg

Photograph of Louis Jolicoeur (on the right), chair of the Quebecois Centre's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee (2019-21), speaking about the Quebec Declaration on Literary Translation and Translators at...
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 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...
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);...
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...
In Other Words banner

Photograph of a street view showing the banner that was used for the biennial ICORN Network Meeting and PEN International Writers in Prison Conference, which was held in Lillehammer...
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...
7th WiPC meeting in Glasgow

Photograph of members of the Writers in Prison Committee gathered for their 7th conference, which was held in Glasgow from 3-6 April 2008. The pages that the members can...
Global Forum for Free Expression

Photograph of members of the Writers in Prison Committee gathered for the Global Forum for Free Expression, which also acted as the WiPC's 8th annual conference, that took place...
Clark and Wills in Istanbul

Photograph of members at the 6th conference of the Writers in Prison Committee, which was held in Istanbul from 2-4 March 2006. Karin Clark, chair of the WiPC (2004-09),...
Siems and Tkachenko in Istanbul

Photograph of members at the 6th conference of the Writers in Prison Committee, which was held in Istanbul from 2-4 March 2006. Larry Siems, director of the American Centre's...
Women's Manifsto launch in Buenos Aires

Photograph PEN members after the presentation of the Women's Manifesto at the Buenos Aires Congress of Latin American PEN Centres that was held on 26-28 July 2018. From left...
Clement and the Dalai Lama

Photograph of Jennifer Clement, president of PEN International (2015-) at an audience with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dhamasala, India, on 4 May 2017, during a trip to...
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...
Outside Keur Birago Centre in Dakar

Photograph of PEN members gathered outside the Keur Birago Centre in Dakar in 2000. From left to right at the very front are: Lucina Kathmann, former president of the...
Committee members in Dakar

Photograph of Women Writers Committee members at a meeting held in the Senate Chamber in Dakar in 2000. From left to right are: Lucina Kathmann, former president of the...
Meeting in New York

Photograph taken during a meeting in New York of the Writers in Exile American Centre. In the centre, on the left, Clara Györgyey, president of the Centre (1976-2010) presides...
Turkish Centre with Bêrîvan Doskî

Photograph of members of the Turkish Centre with Bêrîvan Doskî, vice-president (2013-16), co-president (2016-19) and honorary president (2019-) of the Kurdish Centre. From left to right are: Zeynep Oral,...
Shahriar Kabir visits the Turkish Centre

Photograph of members from the Turkish Centre with the Bangladeshi journalist, filmmaker, and human rights activist Shahriar Kabir, who visited Turkey in 2017. From left to right are: an...
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"....
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.
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...
TLRC delegates in Bengaluru

Photograph of PEN members at a meeting of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee that was held on 26-29 April 2017 in Bengaluru, India. From left to right are:...
TLRC Meeting in Bengaluru

Photograph of all the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee delegates who gathered in Bengaluru, India, for a meeting held on 26-29 April 2017. PEN Centres from Switzerland, Norway, Kazakhstan,...
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,...
Alastair Niven in Dharamsala

Photograph of Helen and Alastair Niven, president of the English Centre (2003-07), both on the left, with a member of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre. The Nivens visited the...
Presentation at TLRC meeting in Biel/Bienne

Photograph of panellists during a presentation at a meeting of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee, which was held in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, on 21-14 June 2018. From left to...
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...
Eswatini guests in Taipei

Photograph of Taipei Chinese Centre members with guests from Eswatini in Taipei on 14 December 1993. Sitting either side of the guests on the front row are Lo Lun...
The Taipei Chinese Centre receiving guests

Photograph of PEN members visiting the Taipei Chinese Centre in 1988. From left to right are: Nancy Chang Ing 殷張蘭熙, president of the Taipei Chinese Centre (1985-91) and vice-president...
Ronald Harwood visits the Taipei Chinese Centre

Photograph of Taipei Chinese Centre members with Ronald Harwood, president of PEN International (1989-93), who visited the Centre on 20 October 1996. From left to right on the front...
Taipei Chinese Centre members in Taipei

Photograph of a group of Taipei Chinese Centre members in Taipei in 1983. From left to right are: Nancy Chang Ing 殷張蘭熙, president of the Taipei Chinese Centre (1985-91)...
Chi Pang-yuan and John Balcom

Photograph of Chi Pang-yuan 齊邦媛 (on the left), former editor of the Taipei Chinese Centre's quarterly publication The Taipei Chinese PEN, with the translator John Balcom 陶忘機, on the...
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...
Taipei Chinese Centre's annual meeting, 2017

Photograph of members at an annual meeting of the Taipei Chinese Centre held in Taipei on 15 December 2017. From left to right are Scott Faul 傅思可 and John...
Taipei Chinese Centre's annual meeting, 2006

Photograph of members at an annual meeting of the Taipei Chinese Centre held in Taipei on 27 December 2006. From left to right are: Kao Tien-en 高天恩; Shou-Fang Hu-Moore...
Swiss German Centre's first General Assembly

Typed minutes of the first General Assembly held by the Swiss German Centre, Bern, 27 October 1979, f. 1. Points noted in these minutes include the proposed merge of...
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...
Suisse Romand Centre newsletter

Typed newsletter titled A touts les membres du P.E.N. romand - Informations, May 1982, ff. 7. This newsletter informs Suisse Romand Centre members about the creation of the Comité...
Notes from the Suisse Romand Centre's AGM in 1974
Typed summarised notes from the Suisse Romand Centre's fourth annual general meeting for the president's report, titled "Activite Internacional", , 10 October 1974, ff. 2. The points listed in...
Biel/Bienne TLRC meeting poster

Poster for a Translation and Linguistics Rights Committee meeting that was hosted by the Suisse Romand Centre and held in Biel/Bienne on 21-24 June 2018. The title and theme...
TLRC meeting in Biel/Bienne in 2018

Photograph of Translation and Linguistics Rights Committee members gathered for a group photo after a meeting held in Biel/Bienne on 21-24 June 2018, which was hosted by the Suisse...
50th International Writers' Meeting in Bled

Copy of Simonović, Ifigenija, ed. 50 Let Years Ans. Ljubljana: Slovenski center PEN, 2018. This book, which was published by the Slovene Centre and edited by Ifigenija Simonović, president...
PEN International delegation and Russian PEN

Photograph of a delegation from PEN International at a meeting held at the offices of the Russian Centre in Moscow on 8 February 2019. From left to right are:...
PEN members in Moscow in 2012

Photograph of a meeting between PEN members, which took place at the Russian Centre's offices in Moscow on 15 March 2012. From left to right are: Vera Moiseeva and...
PEN International members in Moscow

Photograph of PEN members gathered at the Russian Centre offices in Moscow in 2017. Amongst those standing are: Eugene Schoulgin, third from the left, president of the Writers in...
Members of the Board

Photograph of a meeting between the Chilean Centre's Board that was held in Santiago, in 2020.
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...
Musa Mutaev with Bernt Hauge

Photograph of Musa Mutaev, on the left, founder and president of the Chechen Writers Centre (2006-), with the Norwegian author and philosopher Bernt Hauge. It's likely this photograph was...
Chechen writers and artists

Photograph of Chechen writers and members of the Chechen Writers Centre. From left to right are: Musa Mutaev, founder and president of the Chechen Writers Centre (2006-); Islam Elsanov,...
ICORN meeting for Shahrazad project

Photograph of a meeting held by the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN) and the Catalan Centre in Barcelona in 2013. Barcelona has been a member of ICORN since...
Members meeting in Cochabamba

Photograph of Bolivian Centre members and associates meeting at a restaurant in Cochabamba. From left to right are: Stefan Gurtner; Melita del Carpio, secretary of the Bolivian Centre (2017-20);...
Tribute to Mariano Baptista Gumucio

Photograph of Bolivian Centre members and associates attending an event held in honour of Bolivian historian, journalist, and former ambassador, Mariano Baptista Gumucio. This event was organised by the...
Welcoming new members

Photograph of members from the Cochabamba branch of the Bolivian Centre welcoming new members to the Centre. This event was held at the offices of the Cochabamba based newspaper...
Bolivian writers and filmmakers

Photograph of Bolivian Centre members with Bolivian filmmakers. Seated on the front row, from left to right, are: the filmmaker Werner Guttentag, who moved from Germany to Bolivia in...
Meeting Mariano Baptisa Gumucio

Photograph of Bolivian Centre members meeting the Bolivian historian, journalist and former ambassador Mariano Baptista Gumucio. From left to right are: Pilar Pedraza; Melita del Carpio, secretary of the...
Basque Centre Board in 2008

Photograph of Basque Centre Board members in Bilbao in 2008. Standing from left to right are: Urtzi Urrutikoetxea, president (2015-); Paul Bilbao; Kanko Ispizua; and Asier Serrano. Seated from...
Neruda and García Lorca reception

Photograph of PEN members and Argentinian artists attending a reception held in honour of Pablo Neruda and Federico García Lorca. Neruda can be seen seated second from the left;...
García Lorca at Café Tortoni

Photograph of PEN members at a gathering hosted by La Sociedad Argentina de Autores in honour of Federico García Lorca, who visited Buenos Aires in 1933 to direct the...
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....
Calixto Oyuela and Georges Duhamel

Photograph of Calixto Oyuela, on the left, member of the Argentinian Centre, and Georges Duhamel, on the right, member of the French Centre. This photograph is likely to have...