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PEN's first Case List

Typed appendix containing PEN International's first Case List, 1960, Rio de Janeiro, f. 1. Until the mid-1980s, PEN's Case Lists were published as an addendum to the minutes of...

Poster for Oleg Sentsov

Poster created for PEN International's campaign to support the case of the Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov. In May 2014, Sentsov was imprisoned in Russia for protesting against the annexation...

Postcard for Daphne Caruana Galizia

Campaign postcard concerning the case of the Maltese writer, journalist, blogger and anti-corruption activist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was murdered on 16 October 2017. The postcard is designed to...

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Date:[2017]
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USA West Centre's Newsletter

Photograph showing issues of the USA West Centre's newsletter throughout the years. Among them are issues related to Salman Rushdie, president of the American Centre (2004-06), and Nigerian writer...

PEN centre:USA West Centre  (PEN Center West USA)
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Flyer on Sentsov's hunger strike

Flyer (known as 'postcards' in PEN campaigns) created by Ukrainian Centre in September 2018 as part of PEN International's global campaign calling for the liberation of the Ukrainian filmmaker...

PEN centre:Ukrainian Centre  (Український ПЕН)
Date:[2018]
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Leben: Geschichten by Oleg Sentsov

Front cover of Sentsov, Oleg. Leben: Geschichten. Berlin: Voland & Quist, 2019. This German edition of a book of short stories by Oleg Sentsov was published by Voland &...

PEN centre:Ukrainian Centre  (Український ПЕН)
Date:01/01/2019
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Empty Chair Campaign in Kyiv

Photograph of the Ukrainian Centre's Empty Chair Campaign, which was staged in Mykhailivska Square in Kyiv on 15 November 2018 - the date of the annually observed Day of...

PEN centre:Ukrainian Centre  (Український ПЕН)
Date:15/11/2018
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Demonstration for Sentsov in Lviv

Photograph of Ukrainian Centre members taking part in a demonstration organised by the Centre that was held during the 2018 Lviv Book Forum, which took place on 19-23 September...

PEN centre:Ukrainian Centre  (Український ПЕН)
Date:23/09/2018
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For Freedom and Equality book

Front cover of a book published by the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre and the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy for Day of the Imprisoned Writer on 15...

PEN centre:Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre  (བོད་ཀྱི་པེན།)
Date:15/11/2016
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Speaker on World Poetry Day

Photograph of a member of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre speaking at an event organised by the Centre for World Poetry Day on 21 March 2016. This event was...

PEN centre:Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre  (བོད་ཀྱི་པེན།)
Date:21/03/2016
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Presenting on World Poetry Day

Photograph of a member of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre speaking at an event organised by the Centre for World Poetry Day on 21 March 2016. This event was...

PEN centre:Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre  (བོད་ཀྱི་པེན།)
Date:21/03/2016
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Tibetan delegation supporting persecuted writers

Photograph of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre delegation holding up images of three persecuted writers and PEN cases: Gao Yu, Liu Xiaobo, and Ilham Tohti. The members holding the...

PEN centre:Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre  (བོད་ཀྱི་པེན།)
Date:02/10/2014
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Nyima Tso on World Poetry Day 2016

Photograph of Nyima Tso, secretary and treasurer of the Tibtan Writers Abroad Centre (2016-), speaking at an event organised by the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre on World Poetry Day,...

PEN centre:Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre  (བོད་ཀྱི་པེན།)
Date:21/03/2016
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World Poetry Day 2016 in Dharamsala

Photograph of a speaker and the audience at an event organised by the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre on World Poetry Day on 21 March 2016. This event was held...

PEN centre:Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre  (བོད་ཀྱི་པེན།)
Date:21/03/2016
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Photograph collage of World Poetry Day speakers

Collage of photographs of speakers who took part in an event organised by the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre for World Poetry Day, 21 March 2016. This event was held...

PEN centre:Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre  (བོད་ཀྱི་པེན།)
Date:21/03/2016
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Traber's speech on Ken Saro-Wiwa

Typed draft of a text by Barbara Traber titled Text, den ich ungefãhr so an der ETH (vorlas schnell im Zug entworfen), which translates to "Text that I read...

PEN centre:Swiss German Centre  (DeutschSchweizer PEN Zentrum)
Date:[1995]
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Imprisonment of Václav Havel

Typed press release by the Swiss German Centre titled "Schweizer Schriftsteller und Schriftstellerinnen fordern die Freilassung von Vaclav Havel", 20 January 1989, Zurich, f. 1. This press release contains...

PEN centre:Swiss German Centre  (DeutschSchweizer PEN Zentrum)
Date:20/01/1989
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Disappearance of Václav Havel

Typed press release by Hans Erpf for Swiss German Centre titled "Wo Ist Vaclav Havel?", Bern, 8 April 1989, f. 1. In this press release Hans Erpf, general secretary...

PEN centre:Swiss German Centre  (DeutschSchweizer PEN Zentrum)
Date:08/04/1989
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Eşber Yağmurdereli

Photograph of Eşber Yağmurdereli, honorary member of Swedish, Slovak, Canadian, Czech, American and San Miguel de Allende Centres, and recipient of the 1999 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award....

PEN centre:San Miguel de Allende Centre  (San Miguel PEN)
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Brochure commemorating Ken Saro-Wiwa

Brochure created and distributed by the Basque Centre in 2005 to commemorate the life and work of Nigerian poet, writer, and human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa. Saro-Wiwa fought in...

PEN centre:Basque Centre  (Euskal PEN)
Date:01/01/2005
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Blue Metropolis Festival 2019

Photograph of the panelist participating in the Racisme, Anti-racisme et Autocensure panel at the Blue Metropolis Festival 2019, which was held on 4 May 2019 in Montreal. During this...

PEN centre:Quebecois Centre  (Centre québécois du P.E.N. International)
Date:04/05/2019
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Minute of silence for Amanuel Asrat

Photograph of the delegates at the 81st PEN International Congress observing a minute of silence in front of Eritrean poet Amanuel Asrat's empty chair, on 15 October 2015. Asrat...

PEN centre:Quebecois Centre  (Centre québécois du P.E.N. International)
Date:15/10/2015
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Raif Badawi's family during 81st Congress

Photograph of Raif Badawi's family taken during the 81st PEN International Congress which took place from 13 to 16 October 2015 in Quebec City. The title of the Congress...

PEN centre:Quebecois Centre  (Centre québécois du P.E.N. International)
Date:16/10/2015
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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...

PEN centre:Quebecois Centre  (Centre québécois du P.E.N. International)
Date:30/05/2019
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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...

PEN centre:Quebecois Centre  (Centre québécois du P.E.N. International)
Date:18/10/2018
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Empty chair for Amanuel Asrat

Photograph of the empty chair that was displayed in Place d'Youville for the Eritrean poet Amanuel Asrat, taken on 15 October 2015 during the 81st Congress of PEN International,...

PEN centre:Quebecois Centre  (Centre québécois du P.E.N. International)
Date:15/10/2015
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Ensaf Haidar talks at the 81st Congress

Photograph of Ensaf Haidar giving a speech in front of the empty chair of her husband, Saudi writer and activist Raif Badawi, in Place d'Youville, during the 81st Congress...

PEN centre:Quebecois Centre  (Centre québécois du P.E.N. International)
Date:16/10/2015
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Angye Gaona at the Trois-Rivières poetry festival

Photograph of Colombian poet and Quebecois Centre honorary member Angye Gaona, sitting on the left, delivering a poetic performance on 6 October 2018 at the Festival International de la...

PEN centre:Quebecois Centre  (Centre québécois du P.E.N. International)
Date:06/10/2018
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Ma Thida 1994 PEN Case List

Photocopy of the PEN International Case List of 1994 which presents the case of Ma Thida, founding member and president of the Myanmar Centre (2013-16), and PEN International Board...