Culture's Oxygen report
Cover, inner cover, contents page and preface of a PEN report titled Culture's Oxygen, 2016, ff. 4. This report, which was launched on 21 February 2017 to mark International...
Students with Marita Banda
Photograph of students from the PEN club of Munali Secondary School representing their school at an interschool essay writing competition ceremony held at Lusaka Civic Centre in Lusaka (most...
Port Harcourt Book Festival panel
Photograph of the panel at a PEN event held during the 2014 edition of Port Harcourt Book Festival (UNESCO World Book Capital 2014) titled What Language Means to Literature:...
Martxelo Otamendi in Barcelona
Photograph of Martxelo Otamendi, former director of the Basque newspaper Egunkaria and a PEN main case, at a meeting between civil society organisations that was held in Barcelona in...
Smith and Otamendi in Barcelona
Photograph of a meeting between civil society organisations that was held in Barcelona in 2004. Seated at the panel table are Joan Smith (second from the left), former chair...
To Be Translated Or Not To Be report
Front covers in four languages (English, French, German and Catalan) of a report titled To Be Translated Or Not To Be by PEN International and Institut Ramon Llull that...
The World Conference on Linguistic Rights
Photograph of delegates from 61 NGOs and 41 PEN Centres, as well as 40 global experts in linguistic rights, at the World Conference on Linguistic Rights, which was held...
Carles Torner presents the UDLR
Photograph of Carles Torner, executive director of PEN International (2014-20) and chair of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee (1996-2002), presenting the Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights at the...
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...
Princess Nandi Zulu reading Women's Manifesto
Video in which Her Royal Highness Princess Nandi Zulu of the Zulu Royal House reads PEN International's Women's Manifesto in Zulu (which she herself translated), directed by Mattias Axelsson...
Caroline Stockford and Ciwanmerd Kulek
Photograph of Caroline Stockford, on the right, president of the Welsh Centre's Translation and Linguistics Rights Committee, with the Kurdish translator Ciwanmerd Kulek, on the left, during the Her...
Glenys M. Roberts wins Translation Challenge
Photograph of Claire Richards, on the left, and Glenys M. Roberts, on the right, at the Her Gyfieithu (Translation Challenge) awards ceremony, which took place on 4 August 2016....
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 &...
Copies of The Turkish PEN
Photograph of a selection of copies of The Turkish PEN, poetry anthologies published by the Turkish Centre. These anthologies were compiled, edited and translated into English by Suat Karantay,...
Suat Karantay
Photograph of the Turkish academic, translator and former general secretary of the Turkish Centre, Suat Karantay. Karantay compiled, edited and translated issues of the Turkish Centre's poetry anthologies The...
PEN Charter in Tibetan
Electronic copy of PEN International's Charter translated into Tibetan.
Translated children's books
Photograph of a series of childrens books, a total of 28 of which were translated into Tibetan by members of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre in 2018.
Chi Pang-yuan and John Balcom
Photograph of Chi Pang-yuan 齊邦媛 (on the left), former editor of the Taipei Chinese Centre's quarterly publication The Taipei Chinese PEN, with the translator John Balcom 陶忘機, on the...
Translators' gathering in Taipei
Photograph of translators at a gathering that took place on 24 April 2004 in Taipei. From left to right on the front row are: Perng Ching-Hsi 彭鏡禧, president of...
1978 International Conference
Photograph of panel speakers at the Catalan Centre's International Conference, which took place at the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona in October 1978. Among them, from left to right,...
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...
Link the Wor[l]ds symposium
Photograph taken during a symposium titled Link the Words, which took place from 27 to 31 May 2015 at the Taw Win Garden Hotel in Yangon, and was organised...
Cover and introduction of The Attic
Front cover, introduction, and back cover of Skovron, Alex and Rancourt, Jacques. The Attic. Melbourne: PEN Melbourne, 2013. This book of poetry by Alex Skovron, with translations into French...