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...
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 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...
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...
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-)....
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,...
Romanian Centre meeting in 1936
Handwritten minutes of an annual general meeting held by the Romanian Centre on 4 June 1936, ff. 3.
Resolution published during 'The Emergency'
Copy of "P.E.N. In the Emergency," The Indian P.E.N. 56, no. 7-9 (1995): 30. This supplement from The Indian P.E.N. contains a reprint of a resolution that emerged as...
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,...
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...
Albanian Centre gathering
Photograph of Albanian Centre members and associates gathering in an outdoor space, most likely in Tirana.
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...
First regional meeting for the Centres in the Americas
Photograph taken during the first regional meeting of the PEN Centres of the Americas, which took place from 25 to 28 July 2018 in Buenos Aires and was attended...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Latin American PEN Centres meeting in Argentina
Poster for a meeting that took place between the Latin American PEN Centres in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 26-28 July 2018.
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...
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 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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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 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....
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...