Xiaobo bookstand at Tokyo Congress
Photograph of a stand set up to sell books by Liu Xiaobo, co-founder and president of the Independent Chinese Centre (2003-07), at the 76th PEN International Congress in Tokyo,...
Liu Xiaobo's Nobel Prize ceremony
Photograph of Salil Shetty, on the left, Secretary General of Amnesty International (2010-18), and John Ralston Saul, on the right, president of PEN International (2009-15) at the Nobel Prize...
Liu Xiaobo's Nobel empty chair
Photograph of an empty chair in transit to the Nobel Prize ceremony held at Oslo City Hall in Norway on 10 December 2010. This chair was sent to the...
Protest for Liu Xiaobo in Oslo
Photograph of an image of Liu Xiaobo projected onto buildings in Oslo, Norway, above protestors campaigning for his freedom during the Nobel Prize Ceremony held at the Oslo City...
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...
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...
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...
Event with Czesław Miłosz
Photograph of Władysław Bartoszewski, president of the Polish Centre (2001-10), standing on the left and applauding the Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, end on the right, and Juliusz Żuławski, president...
Czesław Miłosz
Photograph of the diplomat, poet, translator and Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz standing before an audience and being photographed at the Polish Centre in Warsaw. This photograph was taken in...
National Literature Prize ceremony
Photograph of members from the Paraguayan Centre at a ceremony in held in Asunción for the presentation of the 2017 National Literature Prize. Each year, the Centre advises the...
Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia
Photograph of Liu Xiaobo, on the right, co-founder and president of the Independent Chinese Centre (2003-07), with his wife, the poet, painter and photographer Liu Xia, on the left....
Karel Čapek's Nobel Prize nomination announced in Arbetet
Press cutting of an article published in Arbetet on 3 October 1938 titled "Nobelpriset at Capek". This excerpt is taken from an article that was published in the Swedish...
Cuban writers meeting Václav Havel
Photograph of Cuban delegates meeting Václav Havel, President of Czechoslovakia (1989-92) and first President of the Czech Republic (1993-2003), in Prague on 5 May 2004. From left to right...