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PEN Launches Libel Report
November 10, 2009 English PEN, together with Index on Censorship, have launched the report of our year long libel inquiry. Read details -
Freedom of speech is for prisoners, too
October 19, 2009 On 14 October 2009, in light of the number of concerns raised about the proposed 'Criminal Memoirs' law outlined in Part 7 of the Coroners and Justice Bill, the government suggested two possible changes. English PEN and a number of organisations working in the field of offender rehabilitation responded with the following letter to The Times. Read details -
English PEN attacks 'Criminal Memoirs' law
October 2, 2009 English PEN have published a briefing document on the Government's proposed new 'Criminal Memoirs' law. Read details -
Writers in Translation call for submissions
August 4, 2009 The new call for submissions has now been opened. Books scheduled for the publication in the rist half of 2010 are eligible to apply. The deadline is 1st October 2009. Read details -
Free Word Website Goes Live
July 30, 2009 www.freewordonline.com Read details -
Julia Blackburn wins PEN/Ackerley Prize for Autobiography
July 19, 2009 The PEN/Ackerley Prize was last night awarded to Julia Blackburn for The Three of Us, her frank account of growing up in a fractured bohemian household. Read details -
Siobhan Dowd wins Carnegie Medal
June 26, 2009 Siobhan Dowd's Bog Child, finished three months before her death from cancer, has made Dowd the first posthumous winner of the Carnegie Medal for Children's Literature Read details -
English PEN at the Convention on Modern Liberty
May 8, 2009 PEN hosted the evening plenary session at the Convention. A video of the discussion is now online. Read details -
The Satanic Verses Affair
March 3, 2009 At 9pm on Saturday 7 March, Janice Sutherland's film about Salman Rushdie, Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa and the ten-year campaign against it will air on BBC Two. English PEN's President, Lisa Appignanesi, will make an appearance. Read details -
Petition on Home Office restrictions on non-EU artists and academics
March 3, 2009 End pernicious controls on artistic freedom. Manifesto Club's Campaign. Read details -
Kathy Lette Remembers John Mortimer
March 2, 2009 Engilsh PEN mourned the loss of one of its most dintinguished members, John Mortimer, last month. Here Kathy Lette pays tribute to a long standing supporter of PEN. Read details -
Robert Chandler speaks out against BBC World Service reductions in Russia
February 27, 2009 Are the BBC's Russian Service feature programmes being axed out of ignorance, or political calculation, wonders translator Robert Chandler? Following the open letter addressed to him BBC Director General Mark Thompson answers the campaigners' charges, and Richard Hainsworth responds to the BBC chief from his Moscow home. Read details -
World Atlas made Guardian Site of the Week
February 26, 2009 World Atlas selected as the Guardian Books Blog Site of the Week. Read details -
Further Success for Writers in Translation
February 26, 2009 4 Writers in Translation Books make the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize longlist Read details -
Rushdie and the Fatwa: The Burning of the Book (Shehani Fernando - guardian.co.uk)
February 16, 2009 Twenty years on, we look back at events surrounding Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa against Salman Rushdie, and how they shaped multicultural Britain Read details
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