Freedom to Write, Freedom to Read
English PEN is pleased to announce that Edward Wilson-Lee has won the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2019 for The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal …
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Entrants are to be books of high literary merit – that is, not primarily written for the academic market – and can cover all historical periods. Publishers may draw attention …
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English PEN is overjoyed at the news that journalist Behrouz Boochani is free and that he has arrived safely in New Zealand I just arrived in New Zealand. So exciting …
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6 – 7.30pm, 30 November 2019 Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, London, EC1R 3GA£5 Freedom of expression in Turkey is rapidly deteriorating. Independent media has been all but wiped …
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