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...
Special Newsletter
1 typed letter from Clara Györgyey to the members of the Writers in Exile American Centre, 2 September 2009, f. 1. In this letter, which she refers to as...
Women's Day performance at Volcano Theatre
Flyers in Welsh and English advertising an evening of poetry, stories and music that was organised by the Welsh Centre and held at Volcano Theatre in Swansea on 8...
Best Ukrainian Books in 2019
Brochure created by the Ukrainian Centre in 2019 titled PEN Ukraine's List of Best Ukrainian Books in 2019, ff. 8. This brochure, which is written in English and has...
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 &...
Launch of Canımı Yakma!
Photograph of participants on stage at the launch of Çay, Merve, ed. Canımı Yakma! (Don’t Hurt Me!). Istanbul: Kırmızı Kedi Yayınları, 2016. This anthology, which was created by the...
Creative workshop led by Zeynep Aliye
Photograph of the participants of a creative writing workshop held in 2014 and led by Zeynep Aliye, treasurer of the Turkish Centre (2015-), who can be seen standing third...
Il Nuovo Timavo (The New Timavo) poetry collection
Photograph of Claudio H. Martelli, former president of the Trieste Centre, presenting a new poetry collection called Il Nuovo Timavo (The New Timavo), an initiative directed by him...
Brochure for the 15th anniversary of the Trieste Centre
Brochure titled "2003-2018; 15 anni di attività", created and distributed by the Trieste Centre to celebrate its 15 years of activities. This publication covers the history of the Trieste...
Foire Internationale du livre de Lomé
Photograph of Guillaume Djondo, commissioner for the literary clubs and workshops of the Centre, on the left, and Renaud Dossavi, general secretary of the Togolese Centre (2016-), on the...
Tibetan Centre's PEN Class poetry
Electronic copy of poems written by participants in a workshop titled PEN Class, ff. 5. This workshop was held by the Tibetan Writers Centre in Dharamsala in 2016.
Fifty years of Tibetan poetry anthology
Front cover of Kyab, Lhamo, Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre, eds. Fifty Years of the Best Collected Poems in Exile. Cowbridge: The Langtail Press, 2012. This poetry anthology was compiled...
Guild of Tibetan Writers' newsletter
Copy of the first English-language newsletter of the Guild of Tibetan Writers, titled "Dedicated to Protecting a Precious Culture", 2002, ff. 4. The Guild of Tibetan writers was established...
Copy of Chistok Melong
Copy of _Chitsok Melong (The Mirror Of Society), Dharamsala: Tibetan PEN, 30 September 2013: 1-6. Chistok Melong, the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre's monthly publication, was first printed in 2000...
First edition of སྤྱི་ཚོགས་མེ་ལོང། (Chitsok Melong)
Front cover of the first ever edition of སྤྱི་ཚོགས་མེ་ལོང། (Chitsok Melong), the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre's monthly publication, which was first printed in 2000. The title of this paper...
Launch of Malaysia-Taiwan anthology
Photograph of participants and PEN members at a book launch of Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Taipei Chinese Centre, PEN International, ed. Anthology of Short Stories: Malaysia-Taiwan 2, Kuala Lumpur:...
Taiwan Literature book launch in Taipei
Photograph of PEN members at the book launch of Pang-yuan, Chi, et al., eds. Taiwan Literature in Chinese and English. Taipei: Commonwealth Publishing, 1999 in Taipei on October 1999....
Two poems from "Rapid Action"
Two poems: im namem dem demokratie by Peter Fahr and Die kurzen und die langen Beine by Zsuzsanna Gahse. These poems are extracted from a publication the Swiss German...
Literary call out to protest Iraq War
Electronically typed letter from Peter K. Wehrli to members of the Swiss German Centre, Zurich, 23 March 2003, f. 1. In this letter Wehrli, Board member of the Swiss...
Uncensored Voices by Eritrean writers in exile
Front cover of Mekonnen, Daniel R., Tedros Abraham and Abraham T. Zere. Uncensored Voices. Essays, Poems and Art Works by Exiled Eritreans. Wien: Löcker Erhard Verlag, 2018. This book...
Die Holocaust-Travestie by Daniel Ganzfried
Front and back cover of Ganzfried, Daniel ... alias Wilkomirski. Die Holocaust-Travestie. Edited by Sebastian Hefti. Berlin: Jüdische Verlagsanstalt Berlin, 2002. This book was commissioned by the Swiss German...
1st issue of PEN Point
Front cover of Sierra Leone PEN, PEN Point 1, no. 1 : 1. This is the cover of the inaugural issue of the Sierra Leone Centre's magazine PEN Point,...
Book of Voices back cover
Back cover of Butscher, Michael, ed. Book of Voices. London: Flame Books Ltd, 24 March 2005. As the introducion on this cover describes, Book of Voices is an anthology...
Exhibition on Strastnoy Boulevard
Photograph of Russian Centre members at the Poets on Strastnoy exhibition, which ran from 21 April to 17 May 2018. This exhibition was co-organised between the Russian Centre and...
Lyrikline event
Photograph of an event that was organised by the Croatian Centre in collaboration with Lyrikline, a online platform for sharing international poetry and literature. This event took place in...
Poster for the Alfabetos series
Poster created by the Colombian Centre promoting three volumes of a book series created by fifty Colombian writers and edited by Carlos Vásquez Zawadzki, president of the Colombian Centre...
Nuevas Voces Literarias competition announced at the Hay Festival
Copy of an article titled "Hay PEN en el Hay," in El Universal by Sara Marcela Bozzi. This article reports on the Colombian Centre's participation in the annually celebrated...
Interview with Carlos Vásquez-Zawadzki
Copy (incomplete) of Andrés Pinzón Sinuco, "El PEN Colombia de escritores busca jóvenes talentos," El Universal, 1 Febuary 2015. In this article the Colombian journalist Andrés Pinzón Sinuco interviews...
Article announcing Tertulia Literaria Baldomero Sanín Cano
Copy of Redacción Cultural, "PEN Colombia de escritores presenta libros," El Universal, 24 May 2013. This article announces Tertulia Literaria Baldomero Sanín Cano, a literary event that took place...
Alfabetos Ensayísticos and Alfabetos Narrativos
Front covers of two volumes of Vásquez-Zawadzki, Carlos, ed. Alfabetos Narrativos/Ensayísticos. Bogotá: Caza de libros and Pen International/Colombia, 2013. These books were edited by Carlos Vásquez-Zawadzki, president of the...
Cai Tianxin's book launch
Photograph of a musical performance which took place at a book launch for a new work by the Chinese writer and university professor Cai Tianxin. This event was organised...
Thirteen Leaves book launch
Photograph of attendees at book launch for Xie, Jiong. Thirteen Leaves. Translated by Sam Perkins. New York: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018. The author Xie Jiong can be seen...
Ragal's letter to El Mercurio
Press cutting of a letter sent into editor of the Santiago based newspaper El Mercurio by Jorge Ragal Galdames, president of the Chilean Centre (2016-21). In the letter, which...
Mutaev with 2016 PEN Anthology
Photograph of Musa Mutaev, founder and president of the Chechen Writers Centre (2006-), holding a copy of an anthology published by the Korean Centre titled 2016 Anthology of the...
Works by Musa Mutaev
Photograph of Musa Mutaev, founder and president of the Chechen Writers Centre (2006-), with seven of his published works. These books include: 1 copy of Mutaev, Musa. Kuntas Skygge....
Visat ditigal magazine
Screenshot of Visat online, the Catalan Centre's literature and translation e-magazine, which was launched in 2004 to promote Catalan language and culture. This image shows the layout of the...
All editions of Catalan Writing
Photograph of volumes 1 to 10 of Catalan Writing, an editorial published by the Catalan Centre in collaboration with the Barcelona based Institut Ramon Llull. This editorial championed Catalan...
Final edition of Catalan Writing
Front cover of Catalan Writing, Vol. 10 (November 2011). This is the cover of the final edition of Catalan Writing, an editorial published by the Catalan Centre in collaboration...
Writing competition poster
Poster advertising short story and poetry writing competitions that were organised and held by the Cambodian Centre in 2015 and 2016.
Arnold Zable at training workshop
Photograph of Arnold Zable, member of the Melbourne Centre, speaking to writers at the Cambodian Centre's writer's training course held in 2013, most likely in Phnom Penh, where the...
Arnold Zable and Heng Sreang
Photograph of Arnold Zable, member of the Melbourne Centre, standing on the left, speaking to writers at the Cambodian Centre's writer's training course. Heng Sreang, president of the Cambodian...
Writer's training course group
Photograph of the speakers and writers who attended the Cambodian Centre's writer's training course held in 2013, which most likely took place in Phnom Penh, where the Centre is...
Oum Sophany at writer's training course
Photograph of the Cambodian poet Oum Sophany reciting her poetry to writers at the Cambodian Centre's writer's training course, which was held in 2013, most likely in Phnom Penh,...
Oum Sophany reading at writer's course
Photograph of the Cambodian poet Oum Sophany reciting her poetry to writers at the Cambodian Centre's writer's training course, which was held in 2013, most likely in Phnom Penh,...
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,...
World Poetry Day 2014
Brochure for a event that was organised by the Bolivian Centre as part of World Poetry Day celebrations and took place in Cochabamba on 21 March 2014. The event...
Poetry evening in Cochabamba
Poster advertising a poetry evening organised by the Cochabamba branch of the Bolivian Centre as part of celebrations taking place for World Poetry Day. This event, titled Velada Poética,...
World Poetry Day flyer
Brochure advertising events organised by the Cochabamba branch of the Bolivian Centre as part of celebrations for World Poetry Day 2009, which were held in Cochabamba on 23-24 March...
Book launch of Las últimas profecías
Photograph of members and associates from the Bolivian Centre at the launch of Anze, Sisinia Las últimas profecías, Editorial Kipus: Cochabamba, 2012. This event was organised by the Cochabamba...
World Poetry Day 2017
Photograph of members and associates from the Cochabamba branch of the Bolivian Centre celebrating World Poetry Day on 21 March 2017. Among them are: Gaby Vallejo, founder and president...
Launch of Escritores en Cochabamba
Photograph of Bolivian Centre members and associates at the presentation of Alba Fernández, Juan José. Escritores en Cochabamba. El último año del Siglo . Cochabamba: Los Tiempos, 1999. From...
Signario presentation
Photograph of PEN members and associates seated at a presentation of "Territorio de los Signos". PEN Bolivia: Signario, no.3 (September 2009). This journal is one of the Bolivian Centre's...
Front cover of Signario
Front cover of "Territorio de los Signos". PEN Bolivia: Signario, no. 3, September 2009. This magazine is one of the Bolivian Centre's internal publications. The artwork on this...
Mulitlingual Poetry Festival
Photograph of a participant reciting text to an audience at the Multilingual Poetry Festival, an event that was organised by the Bolivian Centre and took place in Cochabamba on...
Con ojos y voz de mujer exhibition
Invitation to the opening of an Ibero-American touring exhibition titled Con ojos y voz de mujer, which took place in the headquarters of the Cochabamba based newspaper Los Tiempos...
2nd Cultural Identity Congress
Photograph of PEN members and literary associates at the Bolivian Centre's 2nd International Congress on Historical Heritage and Cultural Identity, which took place at the Centro Pedagógico y Cultural...
International Book Fair of Cochabamba
Photograph of Bolivian Centre members at the Feria Internacional del Libro de Cochabamba, a book fair which takes place annually in Cochabamba. From left to right are: Oscar Ruiz;...
Literary event at Los Tiempos
Photograph of Bolivian Centre members seated during a literary recital that was held at the Los Tiempos offices in Cochabamba on 11 September 1994. From left to right are:...
Homage to Suárez and Martínez
Copy of "Homenaje póstumo a Suárez y Martínez," Opinión, 18 April . This article, published in the culture section of the Cochabamba based newspaper Opinión, announces an event that...
Front cover of Teluria
Front cover of Teluria, vol.13, unknown year. The magazineTeluria was founded by the Woman's Committee of PEN Bolivia in 1996 as a space for the words and voices of...
Fiction in Escritores en Cochabamba
Front cover of Fernández, Alba and José, Juan. Escritores en Cochabamba. El último año del Siglo: Narrativa. Cochabamba: Grupo Canelas, 1999. In 1999 the Cochabamba based newspaper Los Tiempos...
Poetry in Escritores en Cochabamba
Front cover of Fernández, Alba and José, Juan. Escritores en Cochabamba. El último año del Siglo: Poesía. Cochabamba: Grupo Canelas, 1999. In 1999 the Cochabamba based newspaper Los Tiempos...
Essays in Escritores en Cochabamba
Front cover of Fernández, Alba and José, Juan. Escritores en Cochabamba. El último año del Siglo: Ensayos. Cochabamba: Grupo Canelas, 1999. In 1999 the Cochabamba based newspaper Los Tiempos...
Oscar Muñoz conference
Press cutting from Los Tiempos titled "PEN Club Femenino auspicia conferencia de Oscar Muñoz" which was published on 26 May 1995. This article announces a conference organised by the...
Belgian Dutch-Speaking Centre's 2014 Yearbook
Copy of Jeroen Theunissen and Joke van Leeuwen. PEN Vlaanderen Jaarboek: Auteurs In De Bres Voor Auteurs. Borgerhout: PEN Vlaanderen, 2014: 1-108. This copy of the Belgian Dutch-Speaking Centre's...
Oorden en Woorden 2015
Flyer forOorden en Woorden (Places and Words), a performance held as part of the Belgian Dutch-Speaking Centre's PEN Polyfoon project. This event took place at the Tutti Fratelli Theatre...
Oorden en Woorden 2017
Flyer for Oorden en Woorden (Places and Words), a performance held as part of the Belgian Dutch-Speaking Centre's PEN Polyfoon project. This performance took place at the Tutti Fratelli...
Reading of Weg van Damascus
Photograph of Belgian Dutch-Speaking Centre member Annelies Verbeke, seated on the left and speaking into the microphone, in conversation with the Swedish-Syrian poet Ghayath Almadhoun, seated to Verbeke's left....
Koop Censuur project
Photograph of a box designed by the Belgian artist Michael Borremans for a fundraising project organised by the Belgian Dutch-Speaking Centre, which was titled Koop Censuur (Buy Censorship). This...
Svetlana Alexievich at Minsk Conference
Photograph of the Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich, seated in the middle, vice-president of PEN International (2019-) and president of the Belarusian Centre (2019-), at a book launch that took...
87 Women Writers poster
Poster created in 2011 by the Basque Centre and Emakunde, The Basque Institute for Women, displaying photographs and a list of names of eighty-seven important women writers in the...
World Voices Festival 2018
Flyer promoting the 13th edition of the World Voices Festival, a festival organised and hosted annually by the American Centre that was founded by Salman Rushdie, president of the...
Marche manifestive en poésie
Photograph of the Marche manifestive en poésie, which took place on 2 May 2019 in Montreal and was organised jointly by the Quebecois Centre's Women Writers Committee, La Poésie...
1962 Mysore Conference
Photograph of PEN members and associates on stage at the 6th All-India Centre Writer's Conference in Mysore, India, 1962. Among them are Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, first Vice-President and second President...
1962 Mysore Conference Audience
Photograph of the audience seated at the 6th PEN All-India Centre Writer's Conference in Mysore, India, 1962. Amongst those speaking at this conference were Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, first Vice-President and...
8th Bucharest International Poetry Festival
Photograph of PEN members at an event titled National Histories of the PEN Clubs, which was organised by the Romanian Centre and took place on 16-17 May 2017 at...
Talk with Craig Czury
Photograph of Entela Kasi, on the right, president of the Albanian Centre, seated beside American poet and member of the American Centre Craig Czury, on the left, who visted...
Members with Craig Czury and Kimberly Crafton
Photograph of PEN members and literary associates who attended a poetry event held at the University of Tirana's faculty of languages on 11 May 2018. Among them are: Professor...
Entela Kasi at Shtigje Poetike
Photograph of Entela Kasi, on the right, president of the Albanian Centre, receiving a certificate from Selam Sulejmani, on the left, president of the Shoqata për kulturë dhe art...
Tuin van Digters (Garden of Poets) festival 2018
Video of a Free The Word! event that was filmed by the Afrikaans Centre in Wellington, South Africa, in September 2018. This video shows an event that the Afrikaans...
Afrikaans Centre members at Dennegeur School
Photograph of Bettina Wyngaard, on the left, former Board member of the Afrikaans Centre and Kerneels Breytenbach, in the middle, former president of the Afrikaans Centre, with Carol Gordon,...
Anzil Kulsen with Petrus Swartz
Photograph of South African writer and member of the Afrikaans Centre Anzil Kulsen, on the right, with Petrus Swartz, on the left, South African poet and participant of the...
Day of the Puerto Rican Spanish announcement
Photograph taken on 6 August 2014 in San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico, when José R. Román, mayor of San Lorenzo, proclaimed the first 6 August, Day of the Puerto Rican...
Agreement with the University of Puerto Rico in Carolina
Photograph of the signing of an agreement between the Puerto Rican Centre and the University of Puerto Rico in Carolina, Puerto Rico. This agreement, signed on 10 November 2014,...
Agreement with the Festival Internacional de Poesía en Puerto Rico
Photograph of the signing of an agreement between the Puerto Rican Centre and the Festival Internacional de Poesía en Puerto Rico. This agreement, signed on 9 August 2014, aimed...
Agreement with the Centro de Estudios Avanzados
Photograph of the signing of an agreement between the Puerto Rican Centre and the Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe (CEAPR). This agreement, signed on...
Presentation of A treinta años del golpe
Photograph of panellists at the presentation of: Flecha, Víctor Jacinto, and Martini, Carlos. A treinta años el golpe. Asunción: Servilibro, 2019. In this book Flecha, vice-president of the Paraguayan...
Event with Enrique Marini Palmieri
Photograph of Enrique Marini Palmieri, standing on the left, Paraguayan Centre Board member and former professor at the Sorbonne University, presenting his book. This event was organised by the...
The Centre's literary magazines
Copies of all the Paraguayan Centre's literary magazines published since 2000. The magazine at the front of the display was created for the Centre's 75th anniversary in 2018. In...
Launch of the Centre's magazine
Copy of "El PEN Club de Paraguay presentó su revista", ABC Color, 1 February 1977. This article reports on the publication of the Paraguayan Centre's first ever volume of...
Interview with Lily Tuck
Copy of "Lily Tuck: Mi libro es, antes que nada ficción; no es historia", Última Hora, 2010. In this interview Lily Tuck, member of the American Centre, speaks about...
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry event
Flyer for an event held by the Paraguayan Centre which discussed the work of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Whilst working as a pilot in Latin America the French author stayed...
Article on Paraguayan Centre's journal
Copy of Delfina Acosta, "Exsitosa revista del PEN club del Paraguay", ABC Color, 8 January 2012: 4. This article reports on the success of the 22nd edition of the...
Books by Paraguayan Centre members
Photograph of a selection of award-winning books written by members of the Paraguayan Centre. This photograph was most likely taken in 2018, the year of the Centre's 75th anniversary.
Haiku event with the Japanese attaché
Photograph of Paraguayan Centre members with the Cultural Attaché from the Japanese Embassy in Paraguay, seated third from the left on the front row, at an event where Haiku...
Presentation of Paraguayan Centre's magazine
Invitation to a presentation of the Paraguayan Centre's 2017 literary magazine. This event was co-hosted by the Paraguayan Centre and the publishing house Servilibro, and took place during Feria...
Korean Centre's 2018 anthology
Front cover of 2018 Anthology of the Best literature from 42 Countries, ed. Korea PEN. Seoul: Korean Centre, Vol 3, 10 September 2018. This anthology, which was compiled and...
Hanan Awwad with Spanish delegates
Two photographs of international guests with members of the Palestinian Centre. The photograph above shows Hanan Awwad, president of the Palestinian Centre (1992-), holding a drawing of a hand...
International delegates visiting the Palestinian Centre
Two photographs of literary gatherings hosted by the Palestinian Centre. The photograph above shows international guests most likely gathered for the Palestinian Centre's 6th International Poetry Festival, which took...
Palestinian Centre members meeting Kiro Gligorov
Two photographs of Hanan Awwad, president of the Palestinian Centre (1992-), taking part in literary events with cultural figures. The photograph above shows Awwad, at the end on the...
Group photograph at Palestinian poetry festival
Two photographs of Palestinian Centre members gathered together for the Palestinian Centre's 6th International Poetry Festival, which took place in Jerusalem, Nablus and Bethlehem on 1-4 October 1999. Amongst...
International guests at Palestinian Centre events
Two photographs of PEN members at events organised and held by the Palestinian Centre. The photograph above shows Hanan Awwad, president of the Palestinian Centre (1992-), seated second from...
Palestinian Centre's literary gatherings
Two photographs of PEN members gathered together for literary events organised by the Palestinian Centre. The photograph above shows a group including Hanan Awwad, president of the Palestinian Centre...
Lucina Kathmann at Palestinian poetry festival
Two photographs of writers and PEN members gathered for the Palestinian Centre's 4th International Poetry Festival, which took place in Jerusalem, Ramallah, Bethelem and Hebron 26-30 September 1997. This...
6th International Poetry Festival
Two photographs of writers and PEN members gathered for the Palestinian Centre's 6th International Poetry Festival, which took place in Jerusalem, Nablus and Bethlehem on 1-4 October 1999. This...
6th Palestinian poetry festival panel
Two photographs of writers and PEN members gathered for the Palestinian Centre's 6th International Poetry Festival, which took place in Jerusalem, Nablus and Bethlehem on 1-4 October 1999. This...
Rami Hamdallah at 6th International Poetry Festival
Two photographs of writers and PEN members gathered for the Palestinian Centre's 6th International Poetry Festival, which took place in Jerusalem, Nablus and Bethlehem on 1-4 October 1999. This...
Terry Carlbom at Palestinian poetry festival
Two photographs of writers and PEN members gathered for the Palestinian Centre's 6th International Poetry Festival, which took place in Jerusalem, Nablus and Bethlehem on 1-4 October 1999. This...
4th Palestinian poetry festival events
Two photographs of writers and PEN members gathered for the Palestinian Centre's 4th International Poetry Festival, which was held in Jerusalem, Ramallah, Bethlehem and Hebron on 26-30 September 1997....