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...
Victory Day poster
Poster displaying photographs and short biographies of Russian Centre members who played a role in the conflict fought the Eastern Front during World War II, which is termed 'The...
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...
H.G. Wells in Bombay article
Copy of "H.G. Wells in Bombay," The Indian P.E.N. 5, no. 1 (1 January 1939): 1. This article, published in The Indian P.E.N., the All-India Centre's original internal editorial,...
Free Speech article in The Indian P.E.N.
Copy of Wadia, Sophia, ed. "The P.E.N. Stands for Free Speech," The Indian P.E.N. 6, no. 12 (1 December 1940): 1. In this article, published in the All-India Centre's...
Video of Thomas Mann in Amsterdam
Video of Thomas Mann in Amsterdam in 1947. The German Nobel laureate Thomas Mann, who became the first president of the Centre of German-speaking Writers Abroad in 1934, was...
A. den Doolaard in Radio Oranje broadcast
Photograph of A. den Doolaard (alias of Bob Spoelstra), during a Radio Oranje broadcast in 1943. A. den Doolaard was an active PEN member, and in 1971 founded the...
Heinrich Mann requests membership
Handwritten letter from Heinrich Mann to Rudolf Olden, Nice, 20 January 1934, f. 1. In this letter Mann writes to Olden, secretary of the German-Speaking Writers Abroad Centre (1933-40),...
Speak Now or Never book
Copy of Matan, Branko. Speak Now or Never: The 1933 Dubrovnik PEN Club Congress. Zagreb: Croatian PEN Centre & Most/The Bridge, 1993. This book uses archival material to retell...
PEN's 11th Congress
Photograph of PEN members and associates at the 11th PEN International Congress in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, 1933, which was held on 28 May. PEN's principles of unity and freedom of...