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The First Dinner

Photograph of PEN members attending the inaugral dinner of the newly formed Argentinian Centre (referred to here as the P.E.N. Club Buenos Aires), which took place at the Plaza...

PEN centre:Argentinian Centre  (Centro PEN Argentina)
Date:06/05/1930
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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...

PEN centre:Argentinian Centre  (Centro PEN Argentina)
Date:15/09/1936
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PEN Club dinner in 1930

Photograph of PEN members attending a dinner held by the recently formed Argentinian Centre (referred to here as the PEN Club) which was established on 8 April 1930. Handwritten...

PEN centre:Argentinian Centre  (Centro PEN Argentina)
Date:01/09/1930
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The Third Dinner

Photograph of PEN members and associates attending the third dinner held by recently formed Argentinian Centre (referred to here as the P.E.N. Club Buenos Aires) which was established on...

PEN centre:Argentinian Centre  (Centro PEN Argentina)
Date:01/09/1930
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Luisa Valenzuela and Gabriel Seisdedos

Photograph of Luisa Valenzuela, on the right, president (2016-19) and president emeritus (2019-) of the Argentinian Centre, and Gabriel Seisdedos, on the left, president of the Argentinian Centre (2019-)....

PEN centre:Argentinian Centre  (Centro PEN Argentina)
Date:01/01/2014
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H.G. Wells in Bombay article

Copy of "H.G. Wells in Bombay," The Indian P.E.N. 5, no. 1 (1 January 1939): 1. This article, published in The Indian P.E.N., the All-India Centre's original internal editorial,...

PEN Members in Albania

Photograph of Entela Kasi meeting literary associates to discuss PEN activities in Albania. From left to right are: Alix Parodi, secretary general of the Swiss Romand Centre; Entela Kasi,...

PEN centre:Albanian Centre  (PEN Qendrës Shqipërisë)
Date:02/05/2018
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Entela Kasi and associates

Photograph of Albanian Centre members and associates gathering in an outdoor space, most likely in Tirana. Entela Kasi, president of the Albanian Centre, can be seen standing in the...

PEN centre:Albanian Centre  (PEN Qendrës Shqipërisë)
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Albanian Centre gathering

Photograph of Albanian Centre members and associates gathering in an outdoor space, most likely in Tirana.

PEN centre:Albanian Centre  (PEN Qendrës Shqipërisë)
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Yagana Yusuf

Photograph of Yagana Yusuf, poet, founding member of the Afghan Centre and member of the Centre's first Board. This photograph was taken by Eugene Schoulgin, member of the Norwegian...

PEN centre:Afghan Centre  (قلم افغانستان)
Date:01/01/2003
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Report on Carrefour Peace Committee meeting

Electronic document reporting on the Carrefour International Writers’ Meeting of PEN International's Writers for Peace Committee, ff. 85. This meeting was titled Lisbon, Crossroad of Dialogue and Freedom of...

Historical literary tour in Lisbon

Photograph of PEN members taking part in a historical literary walk in Lisbon Old Town on 29 June 2013, seen here sitting in Largo do Chafariz de Dentro. This...

PEN centre:Portuguese Centre  (PEN Clube Português)
Date:29/06/2013
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Poetics of Freedom panel event

Photograph of panellists at a round table event that took place during the Carrefour International Writers’ Meeting of PEN International's Writers for Peace Committee, which was titled Lisbon, Crossroad...

PEN centre:Portuguese Centre  (PEN Clube Português)
Date:28/06/2013
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Liberty of Expression round table

Photograph of panellists at a round table event that took place during the Carrefour International Writers’ Meeting of PEN International's Writers for Peace Committee, which was titled Lisbon, Crossroad...

PEN centre:Portuguese Centre  (PEN Clube Português)
Date:28/06/2013
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Liberty of Expression panel event

Photograph of panellists at a round table event that took place during the Carrefour International Writers’ Meeting of PEN International's Writers for Peace Committee, which was titled Lisbon,...

PEN centre:Portuguese Centre  (PEN Clube Português)
Date:28/06/2013
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Preparing 75th anniversary celebrations

Photograph of members from the Paraguayan Centre having dinner together to plan and prepare celebrations for the Centre's 75th anniversary in 2018. This dinner took place in Bar San...

PEN centre:Paraguayan Centre  (PEN Paraguay)
Date:01/01/2018
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The Board at Bar San Roque

Two photographs of Paraguayan Centre members in Asunción. On the first Tuesday of every month, the Paraguayan Centre's Board meets at Bar San Roque - an iconic meeting spot...

PEN centre:Paraguayan Centre  (PEN Paraguay)
Date:[2017]
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Meeting with writers from Villeta

Photograph of members from the Paraguayan Centre with writers from the city of Villeta at a meeting that took place in 2017. Among them are Emi Kasamatsu, president of...

PEN centre:Paraguayan Centre  (PEN Paraguay)
Date:[2017]
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Members at Latin American PEN meeting

Photograph of PEN members at a meeting that took place between the Latin American PEN Centres in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 26-28 July 2018. Among tem are Jennifer Clement,...

PEN centre:Paraguayan Centre  (PEN Paraguay)
Date:28/07/2018
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PEN members in Buenos Aires

Photograph of PEN members speaking at a meeting that took place between the Latin American PEN Centres in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 26-28 July 2018. Carles Torner, executive director...

PEN centre:Paraguayan Centre  (PEN Paraguay)
Date:28/07/2018
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Nadine Gordimer visiting the Palestinian Centre

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

PEN centre:Palestinian Centre  (الرابطة الدولية للقلم-فرع فلسطين)
Date:[1996]
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PEN and ICORN meeting in Brussels

Photograph of PEN members in Brussels in March 2011. From left to right are: Anders Heger, president of the Norwegian Centre (2007-13), chair of the Norwegian Centre's Writers in...

PEN centre:Norwegian Centre  (Norsk PEN)
Date:27/03/2011
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Solomon Hailemariam and Anders Heger

Photograph of Solomon Hailemariam, on the right, founder and first president of the Ethiopian Centre, eating a meal of raw meat with Anders Heger, president of the Norwegian Centre...

PEN centre:Norwegian Centre  (Norsk PEN)
Date:01/06/2013
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Norwegian Centre meeting the Dalai Lama

Photograph of a delegation from the Norwegian Centre meeting with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, who is seated second from the left. With the Dalai Lama, from left...

PEN centre:Norwegian Centre  (Norsk PEN)
Date:09/05/2014
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PEN WiPC and ICORN meeting

Photograph of PEN and International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN) members in Krakow in May 2013. From left to right are: Elisabeth Dyvik, standing sideways to the camera, Programme...

PEN centre:Norwegian Centre  (Norsk PEN)
Date:17/05/2013
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Eugene Schoulgin and Anders Heger

Photograph of Eugene Schoulgin, on the left, member of the Norwegian and Swedish Centres, president of PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee (2000-04), international secretary (2007-10) and vice-president of...

PEN centre:Norwegian Centre  (Norsk PEN)
Date:17/05/2013
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Ma Thida and Elliot Philipp

Photograph of Ma Thida, founding member and president of the Myanmar Centre (2013-16), and PEN International Board member (2016-), and British gynaecologist and obstetrician Elliot Philipp, who wrote to...

PEN centre:Myanmar Centre  (ပဲန်မြန်မာ)
Date:01/01/2005
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Spanish writers in exile in Australia

Minutes of a meeting held by the Melbourne Centre in Melbourne on 21 August 1939, titled "P.E.N. Committee Meeting", f. 1. These minutes note that a key point raised...

PEN centre:Melbourne Centre  (PEN Melbourne)
Date:21/08/1939
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3rd Rencontre Internationale poster

Poster created by the Malian Centre and Mouvement Malivaleurs to promote a symposium held as part of the 3rd edition of their literary gathering Rencontre Internationale des Écrivains, Éducateurs,...

PEN centre:Malian Centre  (PEN Mali)
Date:23/12/2018
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PEN African Network (PAN) meeting

Photograph of members of the PEN Africa Network (PAN), the umbrella body of PEN Centres in Africa, at a meeting that took place in Accra on 2 December 2005....

PEN centre:Malawian Centre  (Malawi PEN)
Date:02/12/2005
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Four Board members in 2013

Photograph of members of the Kurdish Centre's new Board, after being elected during the Centre's 8th Conference, which took place in Diyarbakir-Amed on 18-19 May 2013. From left to...

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:20/05/2013
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Bêrîvan Doskî and Lucina Kathmann

Photograph of Bêrîvan Doskî, on the left, vice-president (2013-16) co-president (2016-19) and honorary president (2019-) of the Kurdish Centre, onstage with Lucina Kathmann, on the right, vice-president and treasurer...

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:19/05/2013
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Kurdish Centre's new Board 2013

Photograph of the Kurdish Centre's Board in 2013, after they were newly elected during the Centre's 8th Conference, which took place in Diyarbakir-Amed on 18-19 May 2013. From left...

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:20/05/2013
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Kurdish Centre meeting in Oldenburg

Photograph of PEN members at the Kurdish Centre's 10th annual general meeting, which was held in OIdenburg, Germany, on 22 June 2019. At this meeting a new Board was...

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:22/06/2019
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The Kurdish Centre's 10th meeting

Photograph of Kurdish Centre members and associates outside the Yezidische Gemeinde-Mala Êzîdiyan (Yazidi Community Centre) in Oldenburg, Germany. The Kurdish Centre gathered here for the their 10th annual general...

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:22/06/2019
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Bêrîvan Doskî onstage at 10th meeting

Photograph of Bêrîvan Doskî, vice-president (2013-16) co-president (2016-19) and honorary president (2019-) of the Kurdish Centre, speaking onstage at the Kurdish Centre's 10th annual general meeting, which took place...

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:22/06/2019
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Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2013

Photograph of Kurdish Centre members standing outside the Kurdish Centre in Diyarbakir-Amed. Bêrîvan Doskî, vice-president (2013-16) co-president (2016-19) and honorary president (2019-) of the Kurdish Centre, is standing in...

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:15/11/2013
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Meeting Syrian writers in Qamishlo

Photograph of Kurdish Centre members with Syrian writers standing outside the Saziya Zimanê Kurdî (Kurdish Language Institute) in Qamishlo. Among them are Omer Fîdan, fourth from the left, secretary...

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:01/09/2013
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Kurdish Centre Board at 9th meeting

Photograph of Kurdish Centre members at the Kurdish Centre's 9th annual general meeting, which took place on 15 May 2016 in Diyarbakir-Amed. At this meeting a new Executive Board...

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:15/05/2016
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Centre members at 9th meeting

Photograph of Kurdish Centre members at the Kurdish Centre's 9th annual general meeting, which took place on 15 May 2016 in Diyarbakir-Amed. At this meeting a new Executive Board...

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:15/05/2016
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Jiří Dědeček at Kurdish Centre meeting

Photograph of Jiří Dědeček, president of the Czech Centre (2009-), speaking at the Kurdish Centre's 8th annual general meeting, which took place in Diyarbakir-Amed on 18-19 May 2013. Bêrîvan...

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:19/05/2013
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Kurdish Centre members at the 8th meeting

Photograph of Kurdish Centre members seated on stage at the Centre's 8th annual general meeting, which took place in Diyarbakir-Amed on 18-19 May 2013. From left to right, with...

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:19/05/2013
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Audience at the 8th meeting

Photograph of the audience at the Kurdish Centre's 8th annual general meeting, which took place in Diyarbakir-Amed on 18-19 May 2013. This photograph was taken by the Kurdish photographer...

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:19/05/2013
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Kurdish Centre new Executive Board 2013

Photograph of the newly elected Kurdish Centre's Executive Board on stage at the Centre's 8th annual general meeting, which took place in Diyarbakir-Amed on 18-19 May 2013. Significantly, this...

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:19/05/2013
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8th Kurdish Centre Annual Meeting

Photograph of PEN members and associates gathered for the Kurdish Centre's 8th annual general meeting, which took place in Diyarbakir-Amed on 18-19 May 2013. Significantly, this was the first...

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:19/05/2013
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Kurdish Centre members in Prague

Photograph of PEN members at a meeting that was hosted by the Czech Centre and took place at Restaurant Na Vlachovce in Prague on 27-29 April 2006. Zerdeşt Haco,...

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:29/04/2006
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Zerdeşt Haco in Prague

Photograph of Zerdeşt Haco, president (1999-2013) and honorary president (2016-) of the Kurdish Centre, standing and addressing the room from behind a table. This photograph was taken at a...

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:29/04/2006
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Literatūra. Māksla. Mēs article

Press cutting of an article published in Literatūra. Māksla. Mēs (Literature. Art. We.), 7-13 May 1998: 9. This article reports on the activities undertaken by the Latvian Centre in...

WWC members in Dakar

Photograph of Women Writers Committee members in the Senate Chamber in Dakar in 2000. From left to right are: Lucina Kathmann, former president of the San Miguel de Allende...

PEN centre:Guinean Centre  (Centre Guinéen du PEN)
Date:01/01/2000
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Meeting in Chimaltenango

Photograph of Guatemalan Centre members meeting with Guatemalan writers and journalists in Chimaltenango. Among them are: Vicente Vásquez; Eduardo Blandón; Juan Antonio Canel Cabrera; Maco Luna; Ana Gudiel; Roberto...

PEN centre:Guatemalan Centre  (Centro PEN Guatemala)
Date:27/03/2011
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Board commemorating García Escobar

Photograph of the Executive Board of the Guatemalan Centre meeting to commemorate fellow member Carlos René García Escobar, president of the Centre (2006-17). From left to right are: Karla...

PEN centre:Guatemalan Centre  (Centro PEN Guatemala)
Date:19/01/2019
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Meeting with Sandino Patrice Castillo

Photograph of Guatemalan Centre members meeting the writer Sandino Patrice Castillo to discuss publishing a book by Roque Dalton and Otto René Castillo titled Dos puños por la tierra....

PEN centre:Guatemalan Centre  (Centro PEN Guatemala)
Date:09/08/2017
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Martin-Liao and Strasser

Photograph of Tienchi Martin-Liao, on the left, president (2009) and co-ordinator of Writers for Peace Committee of the Independent Chinese Centre, with Johano Strasser, on the right, former president...

PEN centre:German Centre  (PEN-Zentrum Deutschland)
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Members and associates in 1998

Photograph of Cuban Writers in Exile Centre members and associates meeting in Miami on 7 March 1998, soon after the Centre was founded, in 1997. From left to right...

PEN centre:Cuban Writers in Exile Centre  (Pen Club de Escritores Cubanos en el Exilio)
Date:07/03/1998
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Meeting at Fragua Restaurant

Photograph of Cuban Writers in Exile Centre members at a breakfast meeting that took place at La Fragua restaurant in Miami on 3 November 2018. José Antonio Albertini, president...

PEN centre:Cuban Writers in Exile Centre  (Pen Club de Escritores Cubanos en el Exilio)
Date:03/11/2018
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Members meeting

Photograph of Cuban Writers in Exile Centre members standing behind a table covered with the Centre's flag. From left to right are: Armando de Armas; Armando Álvarez Bravo; José...

PEN centre:Cuban Writers in Exile Centre  (Pen Club de Escritores Cubanos en el Exilio)
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PEN Cuba meeting in 1945

Photograph of a gathering held by the original Cuban Centre, then called the PEN Club of Cuba, which was established by Jorge Mañach y Robato in Havana in 1945....

PEN centre:Cuban Writers in Exile Centre  (Pen Club de Escritores Cubanos en el Exilio)
Date:[1945]
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15th Anniversary

Photograph of Cuban Writers in Exile Centre members celebrating the Centre's 15th anniversary. This event took place on 13 October 2012, most likely in Miami, where the Centre is...