Author: English PEN staff
About the Writers in Prison Committee
The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) was set up in 1960 as a result of mounting concern about attempts to silence critical voices around the world through the detention of …
Read MoreA Celebration of Italo Calvino – Gore Vidal Remembers
Gore Vidal at the Italian Cultural Institute In a unique appearance for English PEN, the great and controversial American writer Gore Vidal talked, with his customary indiscretion, about the work …
Read MorePEN News Magazine out now!
PEN News is published twice a year and distributed FREE to members and friends only. The most recent issue of PEN News (published October2002) is devoted to that subject so beloved of authors, …
Read MoreSavoy fundraiser brings the house down
THURSDAY 26TH SEPTEMBER – THE PEN & THINK MEDIA-BIZ QUIZ AT THE SAVOY HOTEL, LONDON Bamber Gascoigne was the quizmaster for the inaugural English PEN quiz night. Tables were taken …
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