LISTEN: Celebrating Nelson Mandela
On 17 July 2018, English PEN was honoured to host Celebrating Nelson Mandela: His Letters, His Legacy at the Union Chapel in Islinton. The event marked the centenary of Nelson …
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Home: Brave New Voices at the BBC Proms
On Sunday 29 July 2018, a group of participants in our Brave New Voices outreach project, all pupils at the Capital City Academy in Willesden, were invited to perform at the BBC Proms. Here is their poem, written in collaboration with writer and Brave New Voices co-ordinator Rosemary Harris and translator Alice Guthrie, in partnership with Salusbury World
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Richard Beard awarded PEN Ackerley Prize 2018 for ‘The Day That Went Missing’
English PEN has announced Richard Beard as the winner of the PEN Ackerley Prize 2018 for his memoir The Day That Went Missing (Harvill Secker). Two other books were shortlisted …
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PEN Translates awards showcase writers from seventeen countries
Books from seventeen countries and ten languages make up the latest round of PEN Translates award winners. These include poetry collections from the Caribbean, Indonesia, The Netherlands and Iran, novels …
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie awarded PEN Pinter Prize 2018
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was chosen by this year’s judges: President of English PEN Philippe Sands; historian, biographer and widow of Harold Pinter Antonia Fraser; writer and critic Alex Clark; poet, …
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