Empty Chair for Vladimir Kozlov
Poster used for the empty chair dedicated to Kazakh journalist Vladimir Kozlov, and signed by the members of various Centres during the biennial ICORN Network Meeting and PEN International...
P.E.N. Im Exil
Poster by artist Gunter Rambow and commissioned by the German Exile Archive of the German National Library for the 1983 Bonn exhibition P.E.N. Im Exil. The image used in the...
Empty Chair for Oleg Sentsov
Poster used for the empty chair dedicated to Ukrainian writer and filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, and signed by the members of various Centres during the biennial ICORN Network Meeting and...
Empty Chair for Raif Badawi
Poster used for the empty chair dedicated to Saudi blogger and editor Raif Badawi, and signed by the members of various Centres during the biennial ICORN Network Meeting and...
Empty Chair for Razan Zaitouneh
Poster used for the empty chair dedicated to Syrian blogger and human rights activist Razan Zaitouneh, and signed by the members of various Centres during the biennial ICORN Network...
Empty Chair for Idris Said Aba Arre
Poster used for the empty chair dedicated to Eritrean writer Idris Said Aba Arre, and signed by the members of various Centres during the biennial ICORN Network Meeting and...
Empty Chair for Ilham Tohti
Poster used for the empty chair dedicated to Uyghur writer Ilham Tohti, and signed by the members of various Centres during the biennial ICORN Network Meeting and PEN International...
Empty Chair for Dawit Isaak
Poster used for the empty chair dedicated to Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak, and signed by the members of various Centres during the biennial ICORN Network Meeting and PEN International...
Empty Chair for Aslı Ceren Aslan
Poster used for the empty chair dedicated to Turkish editor Aslı Ceren Aslan, and signed by the members of various Centres during the biennial ICORN Network Meeting and PEN...
Paraules i Futur
Poster advertising Paraules i Futur: PEN Català Fòrum 2004, (Words and Future: Catalan PEN Forum 2004) an event organised by the Catalan Centre which took place on 16-21 May...
Free the Word! 2010
Poster advertising the Free the Word! 2010 festival, organised by PEN International and held on 14-18 April 2010 in multiple venues in London.
Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2004
Poster by the Catalan Centre advertising the Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2004, which is commemorated every year on the 15 November.
Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2009
Poster by the Catalan Centre advertising the Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2009, which is commemorated every year on the 15 November.
2005 PEN Congress poster
Poster advertising the 71st PEN International Congress, which was held on 14-21 June 2005 in Bled, Slovenia, and titled The Tower of Babel: a Blessing or a Curse?, Language...
2006 PEN Congress poster
Poster advertising the 72st PEN International Congress, which was held on 22-28 May 2006 in Berlin, Germany, and titled Writing in a World Without Peace.
1990 PEN Congress poster
Poster advertising the 55th PEN International Congress in Funchal, Portugal, which was held on 6-12 May 1990 and titled Language And Literatures: Unity And Diversity.
2003 PEN Congress poster
Poster advertising the 69th PEN International Congress, which took place on 22-28 November 2003, in Mexico City, Mexico, and titled Cultural Diversity and Freedom of Expression.
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...
PEN, ICORN, and Eaten Fish
Photograph of PEN and ICORN (International Cities of Refuge Network) members with Iranian cartoonist Ali Dorani (known as 'Eaten Fish') outside PEN International's former offices in London in 2018....
Marjorie-Ann Watt's letter to Torner
Typed and handwritten letter from Marjorie-Ann Watts to Carles Torner, London, 28 May 2019, f. 1. In this letter Marjorie-Ann Watts, granddaughter of PEN International's founder Catharine Amy Dawson...
Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
Portrait of Catharine Amy Dawson Scott, founder of PEN International. Dawson-Scott founded PEN in London in October 1921, enlisting a group of fellow writers to join her in creating...
Portrait of Hermon Ould
Portrait of Hermon Ould, first secretary of the English Centre (1921-51) international secretary of PEN International (1926-51) and president of PEN International (1941-47). The poet and dramatist Hermon Ould...
1993 PEN Congress poster
Poster advertising the 60th PEN International Congress in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, which was held on 6-12 September 1993 and titled Roads of Literature. This Congress was hosted by...
2008 PEN Congress poster
Poster advertising the 74th PEN International Congress in Bogotá, Colombia, which was held on 17-22 September 2008 and titled The Role of the Word. This Congress was hosted...
1999 PEN Congress poster
Poster advertising the 66th PEN International Congress in Warsaw, Poland, which was held on 15-20 June 1999 and titled Farewell to the Twentieth Century. This Congress was hosted by...
1997 PEN Congress poster
Poster advertising the 64th PEN International Congress in Edinburgh, Scotland, which was held on 5-11 August 1997 and titled Identity and Diversity. This Congress was hosted by the Scottish...
PEN Emergency Fund members in Spain
Photograph of members of the PEN Emergency Fund in Ourense for the 82nd PEN International Congress held there on 26 September to 2 October 2016 under the title Building...
2002 PEN Congress poster
Poster advertising the 68th PEN International Congress in Ohrid, Macedonia, which was held on 17-24 September 2002 and titled Borders of Freedom/Freedom of Borders. This Congress was hosted by...
Swedish Centre's Empty Chair
Sculpture of a PEN Empty Chair commissioned by the Swedish Centre in 2011. Since the 1980s PEN International has used the Empty Chair at events to symbolise writers who...
Nadine Gordimer at home
Photograph of PEN members with Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer (third from the right at the front), former vice-president of PEN International, in the garden of her home in Johannesburg...
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...
Panel discussion at United Nations
Photograph of a panel discussion held at the United Nations Office in Geneva in 2011. From left to right are: Alexis Krikorian, director of Freedom to Publish at the...
Day of the Dead logo
Poster designed for PEN International's Day of the Dead by the Guadalajara Centre, with artwork by Maxine Young. On 2 November 2011, members of the public, members of staff...
First Day of the Dead event in London
Photograph of PEN members at the inaugural protest event held for PEN International's Day of the Dead. On 2 November 2011, members of the public, members of staff from...
PEN members at UNESCO
Photograph of PEN members outside the UNESCO headquarters in Paris in 2007. From left to right are: Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, international secretary (2004-07) and vice-president emeritus of PEN International; Eugene...
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...
Football card for Iran
A 'Football Card' designed by PEN International to raise awareness of freedom of the word in Iran. Inspired by the FIFA World Cup held in Brazil in 2014, PEN...
Performer at PEN Congress in Senegal
Photograph of a performer at the 73rd PEN International Congress in Dakar, Senegal, which was held on 4-11 July 2007 and titled The World and Human Values.
Day of the Dead Campaign illustration
Illustration by Maxine Young for PEN International's Day of the Dead campaign. The Day of the Dead campaign was launched on 2 November 2011 to commemorate Mexican journalists and...
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...
H. G. Wells
Photograph of H. G. Wells (second from the left), president of PEN International (1933-36) and PEN's Wartime International Presidential Committee (1941-46). This photograph was most likely taken when Wells...
Performance at PEN Congress in Senegal
Photograph of a performance taking place during the 73rd PEN International Congress in Dakar, Senegal, which was held on 4-11 July 2007 and titled The World and Human Values.
Bill and Kathy Barazetti
Photograph of Bill Barazetti, international treasurer of PEN International (1991-96) holding his daughter Kathy, who went on to be a finance administrator at PEN International in the 2000s. Bill...
Galsworthy, Dawson-Scott and Ould
Photograph of three core and founding members of PEN in the late 1920s. From left to right are: John Galsworthy, first president of PEN International and the English Centre...
Charlie Hebdo no. 1189
Front cover of Charlie Hebdo, no. 1189, Paris: 6 May, 2015. This cover of the French weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo shows an illustration by the artist Riss captioned 'Crève...
Article in Charlie Hebdo no. 1189
Pages 8 and 9 of Charlie Hebdo, no. 1189, Paris: 6 May, 2015 showing an article titled Anti-Charlie de tous les pays, unissez-vous!, which is surrounded by cartoons by...
Ten year sentence' cartoon by Haldane
Cartoon by the British cartoonist and illustrator David Haldane, which featured in Publish and be Damned!, a book of cartoons for PEN International that was edited by Mark Bryant...
PEN's Bulletin of Selected Books
Front cover of Bulletin of Selected Books / Choix de notices critiques by PEN International, Vol. 6 no. 1 (March 1955). The coinciding of missions in areas of promoting...
Translation scheme announced in P.E.N. News
Extract from P.E.N. News, November 1928: 6. This particular issue of P.E.N. News contains an article titled "Translation Scheme" that reports on a recent agreement made between what...
UNESCO conference in Venice
Page outlining the rules and procedures for delegates and observers at UNESCO's International Conference of Artists in Venice 1952, f. 1. This document was written and issued before the...
Jens Lohmnann
Photograph of Jens Lohmann being hugged at a PEN event. Lohmann has been a member of the Danish Centre since 1977, a member of the Centre's Board since 1987,...
Changing the Charter in English
Electronically typed document concerning changes to Article 3 of the PEN International Charter, f. 1. This document (in its English version) affirms modifications to the Charter that were passed...
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...
Invitation to launch of Women's Manifesto
Invitation to an event held to launch PEN International's Women's Manifesto - a pledge made by PEN to endorse principles of non-violence, safety, education, equality, access and parity for...
Nicola Sturgeon receives Women's Manifesto
Photograph of Nicola Sturgeon, second from the left, First Minister of Scotland, receiving the Women's Manifesto from Jennifer Clement, end on the left, president of PEN International (2015-), with...
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka recieves Women's Manifesto
Photograph of UN under-secretary-general and executive director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, on the left, recieving the PEN International Women’s Manifesto from Jennifer Clement, president of PEN International (2015-)....
Sofi Oksanen recieves Women's Manifesto
Photograph of the Finnish writer and playright Sofi Oksanen, on the right, receiving the PEN International Women’s Manifesto from Jennifer Clement, president of PEN International (2015-). PEN launched the...
Clement's speech upon becoming PEN president
Photograph of Jennifer Clement, president of PEN International (2015-), speaking at the 81st PEN International Congress in Quebec City after being elected the first woman president of PEN International....
Solomon and Clement's exchange on PEN Charter
Screenshot of an email exchange between Jennifer Clement, president of PEN International (2015-), and Andrew Solomon, president of the American Centre (2015-18) that took place on 22 May 2016,...
Tarık Günersel
Photograph of Tarık Günersel, Board member of PEN International (2010-12) and president of the Turkish Centre (2007-09), at the 76th PEN International Congress in Tokyo, Japan, which was held...
Sara Whyatt
Photograph of Sara Whyatt, PEN International’s programme director (1990-2013), interim executive director (2010-11), and deputy director (2011-2013). Whyatt headed PEN International’s freedom of expression programme for over twenty years,...
PEN Charter in Tibetan
Electronic copy of PEN International's Charter translated into Tibetan.
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...
Delegates at the 44th PEN Congress
Photograph of delegates at the 44th PEN International Congress in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which was held on 15-21 July 1979 and titled Literary Expression and Mass Communication; Literature...
Delegates at the 79th PEN Congress
Photograph of delegates at the 79th PEN International Congress in Reykjavík, Iceland, which took place on 9-12 September 2013, which was titled Digital Frontiers: Linguistic Rights and Freedom of...
Taipei Centre at the 46th PEN Congress
Photograph of delegates at the 46th PEN International Congress in Caracas, Venezuela, 25 September to 2 October 1983, which was titled Latin American Literature As A Crossroads Between The...
64th PEN Congress in Edinburgh
Photograph of delegates at the 64th PEN International Congress, which was held in Edinburgh on 5-11 August 1997. The title of this Congress was Identity and Diversity.
Propositions from the Suisse Romand Centre
Typed draft of a document with handwritten annotations titled "Propositions du Centre de Suisse Romand", Lausanne, June 1974. This document outlines the Centre's concerns with PEN Congresses and round...
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...
Suisse Romand Centre information sheet
Typed information sheet titled Quelques renseignements sur la fédération internacionale des P.E.N. -clubs, ff. 2. The first two paragraphs in this document contain a summarised history of PEN International,...
Suisse Romand Centre's first statutes
Typed statutes of the Suisse Romand Centre, titled "Statuts du centre suisse romand des P.E.N. Clubs", 20 November 1949, ff. 8. The subtitle on this document notes that these...
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...
Dubrovnik Congress memorial stone
Photograph of a memorial stone and plaque that was created to mark the 59th PEN International Congress in Hvar/Dubrovnik, Croatia, 1993. This Congress, which took place on 19-24 April...
Vlado Gotovac
Photograph of Vlado Gotovac, member of the Croatian Centre, on the left, and Alexandre Blokh, international secretary of PEN International (1981-98), on the right, at a conference held during...
Slobodan Novak and Vlado Gotovac
Photograph of Slobodan Novak, on the left, president of the Croatian Centre (1990-2000), speaking with Vlado Gotovac, in the centre, poet, activist and member of the Croatian Centre, and...
PEN members arriving at Hvar
Photograph of PEN members disembarking a ship to attend the 59th PEN International Congress in Hvar/Dubrovnik, 1993, which took place from 19-24 April and was titled Place and Destiny....
Congress in the Marin Držić Theatre
Photograph of PEN members and associates on stage at the Marin Držić Theatre in Dubrovnik. This event was held during the 59th PEN International Congress in Hvar/Dubrovnik, 1993, which...
György Konrád in Venice
Photograph of György Konrád, president of PEN International (1990-93), waiting in Venice to board a ship transporting PEN members to the 59th PEN International Congress in Hvar/Dubrovnik, 1993, which...
Onstage at the 59th Congress
Photograph of PEN members and associates on stage at the Marin Držić Theatre in Dubrovnik. This event took place as part of the 59th PEN International Congress in Hvar/Dubrovnik,...
Planting olive trees
Photograph of olive trees being planted by PEN members to mark the 59th PEN International Congress in Hvar/Dubrovnik, 1993, which took place on 19-24 April and was titled Place...
The 59th Congress
Photograph of all the PEN members and associates who attended the 59th PEN International Congress in Hvar/Dubrovnik, 1993, gathering on steps in Gundulićeva Poljana - the historical centre of...
"Mea Culpa" statement
Statement issued by the Chilean Centre in April 2016 titled 'Centro PEN Chile: Declaración del Directorio', f. 1. This statement from the Chilean Centre's Board reaffirms that the Centre's...
Chilean Centre logo
Logo used by the Chilean Centre. The logo's design, featuring a book and quill, uses the year that PEN International was established - 1921.
Anti-Terrorism, Writers and Freedom of Expression
Photograph of three copies of a report issued by PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee titled Anti-Terrorism, Writers and Freedom of Expression. This report, produced in December 2003, was...
PEN International in La Vanguardia
Copy (fragmentary) of "El XIII Congreso internacional de Pen Clubs: la sesion inaugral - Discursos de Pompeo Fabra y H.G. Wells," La Vanguardia, 22 May 1935: 7-8. This article...
1st International Congress
Photograph of Catalan Centre members seated at a table during the 1st PEN International Congress, London, 1-3 May 1923. This inaugural dinner of PEN International (known at the time...
Table settings at 1st Congress
Illustrated table settings for the 1st PEN International Congress, London, 1923. This inaugural dinner of PEN International and the earliest established Centres took place in London on 1 May...
Hosting the 1935 Congress in Barcelona
Telegram from the Catalan Centre to the English Centre, , 18 May 1933, f. 1. In this telegram the Catalan Centre puts forward a proposition from their member Josep...
Report sent to Gloria Guardia
Report written by Melita del Carpio in 2014 titled 'Informe a Gloria Guardia: Cambios en el PEN Bolivia para un nuevo tiempo', ff. 4. In this report del Carpio,...
Autocensura en Bolivia Report
Report written in 2015 by Melita del Carpio, secretary of the Bolivian Centre (2017-20), titled 'Autocensura en Bolivia', which was presented at a conference titled Autocensura y Libertad de...
Trilingual newsletter La Red
Front cover of The Network/Le Réseau/La Red, Vol. 8, no. 1 (Spring 2000). This particular edition of the trillingual newsletter created and published by PEN International's Women Writers Committee...
Belgian French-Speaking Centre's 1922 statutes
The Belgian French-Speaking Centre's first ever statues, 1 October 1922. Known at this time as the Club des Écrivains Belges (C.E.B.), the Belgian French-Speaking Centre created this document to...
Membership List 1990
Typed administrative document created by the Belarusian Centre in Minsk on 1 January 1990, f. 1. This document alphabetically lists the names of active members of the Belarusian Centre...
Article in Euzko Gogoa
Online copy of Ibiñagabeitia, Andima."PEN euskal bilkura," Euzko Gogoa, no. 2, July 1951. https://andima.armiarma.eus/eugo/eugo11/eugo1117.htm. This article is an e-version of an article originally written in 1951 and published in...
Commemorative medallion for 34th Congress
Medallion created to commemorate the 34th PEN International Congress in New York, 1966, which was held on 12-18 June. The title of this Congress was The Writer as...
The World of Translation Conference
Front cover of PEN American Center, The World of Translation, New York: PEN American Center, 1971. This book, which was written and published by the American Centre, contains an...
The Cosmopolitanism of the P.E.N. article
Copy of Wadia, Sophia, ed. "The Cosmopolitanism of the P.E.N.," The Indian P.E.N. 2, no. 8 (1 August 1936): 1. This article from The Indian P.E.N., the All-India Centre's...
67th PEN Moscow Congress logo
Logo used for the 67th PEN International Congress in Moscow, Russia, 22-28 May 2000, which was titled Freedom of Criticism. Criticism of Freedom.
52nd PEN Congress poster
Poster advertising the 52nd PEN International Congress, in Seoul, South Korea, 28 August to 2 September 1988, which was titled Change and Permanency in Literature in a Rapidly Evolving...
67th PEN Moscow Congress booklet
Booklet given to PEN delegates attending the 67th PEN International Congress in Moscow, Russia, 22-28 May 2000, which was titled Freedom of Criticism. Criticism of Freedom.
The All India Centre's emergency resolution
Resolution passed at an emergency meeting of the All-India Centre's executive committee that was held in Mumbai on 23 April 1971, f. 1. This resolution states the All-India Centre's...
Moris Farhi and Elaine Freed at home
Photograph of Musa Moris Farhi, on the right, and his partner Elaine Freed, on the left, at their home in Brighton in June 2014. Farhi was a long-standing member...
Moris Farhi and Elaine Freed
Photograph of Musa Moris Farhi, on the right, and his partner Elaine Freed, on the left, outside their home in Brighton in June 2014. Farhi was a long-standing member...
PEN and ICORN members in Belgrade
Photograph of PEN and ICORN (International Cities of Refuge Network) members in Belgrade in October 2011. From left to right are: Elisabeth Dyvik, programme director of ICORN (2007-); Frank...