Women Writers Committee in Dakar
Photograph of Women Writers Committee members at the 73rd PEN International Congress in Dakar, Senegal, which took place on 4-11 July 2007 and was titled The World and Human...
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...
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...
Noma Dumezweni reading Women's Manifesto
Photograph of a conference co-organised by ICORN and PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee that was held in Rotterdam on 29-31 May 2019 and titled At Home Everywhere. Here,...
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...
Women writers protest at New York Congress
Photograph of delegates in a debate at the 48th PEN International Congress in New York, USA, which was held on 12-17 June 1986 and titled The Writer’s Imagination And...
Nawal El Saadawi
Photograph of the Egyptian feminist, novelist, psychiatrist and activist Nawal El Saadawi (Nawāl Saʻdāwī). El Saadawi was the first human rights case to be taken up by the Women...
Cover of Canımı Yakma!
Front cover of Çay, Merve, ed. Canımı Yakma! (Don’t Hurt Me!). Istanbul: Kırmızı Kedi Yayınları, 2016. This anthology, which was created by the Turkish Centre with support from the...
2018 Duygu Asena Women’s Rights Award
Photograph of attendees of the 2018 PEN Duygu Asena Awards ceremony, which was hosted by the Goethe-Institut in Istanbul on 6 March 2018, two days before International Women's Day....
Women's Day event in Dharamsala
Photograph of participants arriving to an event organised by the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre for International Women's Day on 8 March 2016. This event was held at the Dolma...
Participant on International Women's Day in Dharamsala
Photograph of a participant speaking at an event organised by the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre for International Women's Day on 8 March 2016. This event was held at the...
International Women's Day event in Dharamsala
Photograph of the audience and speakers at an event organised by the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre for International Women's Day, 8 March 2016. This event was held at the...
Elisabeth Wandeler-Deck's press release on Women's Day 2000
Typed press release by Elisabeth Wandeler-Deck titled "Aktion des Internationalen und des Deutschschweizerischen PEN zum Frauentag", created for the Swiss German Centre on International Women's Day, 8 March 2000,...
The Bolivian Centre Manifesto
Copy of the Bolivian Centre's 2014 statutes, ff. 14. The first PEN Centre in Bolivia was established in 1931, but after a period of inactivity was declared dormant in...
Celebrating Yolanda Bedregal
Flyer advertising an event held to commemorate the life and work of Yolanda Bedregal, former secretary of the Bolivian Centre. This event was organised by the Cochabamba branch of...
Escritura de Mujer Conference
Front and back pages of a programme for a conference titled Escritura de Mujer, which was organised by the Bolivian Centre (at that time also known as the Committee...
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...
Conference announced in Los Tiempos
Copy of "Coloquio 'Escritura de Mujeres'...,”Los Tiempos, 7 December 1997. This extract from a larger article announces a conference promoting and championing women’s writing, which was organised by the...
Conference announced in La Razón Cultura
Copy of Eyzaguirre, Gloria. "Las mujeres 'toman' la palabra," La Razón, December 1997. This article, published in the culture section of La Razón, reports on a conference organised by...
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...
Article announcing Teluria Magazine
Copy of "Editaron 'Teluria'," Los Tiempos, 22 December 1996. This article announces the establishment of the magazine Teluria, which was founded by the Committee of Women Writers of PEN...
Commemorating Yolanda Bedregal
Copy of a article titled "En memoria de Yolanda Bedregal". This article commemorates the celebrated Bolivian writer and former secretary of the Bolivian Centre, Yolanda Bedregal. The Bolivian Centre...
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...
Committee of Women Writers of the Bolivian Centre
Copy of "Crean en esta ciudad filial del PEN Club Internacional," Opinión, 28 December 1992. This article announces the first Board of directors of the Committee of Women Writers...
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...
Hanan Awwad in Mali
Photograph of Hanan Awwad, third from the left on the second row, president of the Palestinian Centre (1992-), at an event held with the Women's Union in Mali. As...
The 58th PEN Congress
Photograph of PEN members at the 58th PEN International Congress in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which was held from 29 November to 4 December 1992 and was titled Man...
Panel at 58th PEN Congress
Photograph of PEN members at the 58th PEN International Congress in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which was held from 29 November to 4 December 1992 and was titled Man...
Speakers at Un Cuarto Propio
Photograph of speakers at a conference titled Un Cuarto Propio, which took place at the Instituto Nicaragüense de Cultura Hispánica (INCH) in Managua on 18 November 2015. This...
Un Cuarto Propio conference invitation
Invitation to a conference titled Un Cuarto Propio, which took place at the Instituto Nicaragüense de Cultura Hispánica (INCH) in Managua on 18 November 2015. This event was co-organised...
Emily Mkamanga at the Polytechnic University of Malawi
Photograph of Emily Mkamanga, Malawian writer and political analyst, presenting a lecture on women's writing at the Polytechnic University of Malawi in Blantyre in 2004.
Women’s Poetry Festival 2018
Photograph of participants and facilitators at The Women’s Poetry Festival 2018. The participants, some of whom are pictured here, were: Violet Banda, Luckier Chikopa, Xara Hlupekire, Patricia Khonje, Linly...
Postoji li ženski književni kanon? poster
Poster promoting a literary event titled postoji li ženski književni kanon? (Does a female literary canon exist?), which was organised by the Croatian Centre in collaboration with The Croatian...