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Ali Abu Yasin's PEN Pinter Prize Writer of Courage 2026 speech. Translated by Sawad Hussain. Delivered at the British Library.
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Imagining Yourself into Another Person, in Another World
In Conversation with Candy Gourlay, Danielle Jawando, Hiba Noor Khan and Alom Shaha.
Jacqueline Rose’s PEN Pinter Prize 2026 Speech
Delivered at the British Library.
The Future Will Be in Our Image
Elhum Shakerifar on The Conference of the Birds and the Global Sumud Flotilla.
High Probability, a Cowardly Phrase
Parham Ghalamdar on thresholds, drawings, and war.
Silence as Expression, Symbol, and the Risks Facing Sudanese Writers and Filmmakers
Amal Akasha on Sudanese film, 1964 onwards.
The Bus Stop
L.R. – a pseudonym – writes from Afghanistan. Translated by Abdul Bacet Khurram.
The Haircut Razor
yuwei hua on family, writing, and identity.
A World That’s Slowly Slipping Through Our Fingers: An Interview with Joanna Elmy
Joanna Elmy on hate, home, and brands.
Plum Stew
Mahtab Grimshaw on food, Iran, and T. S. Eliot
I Wish there Had Been Writers Like You Writing about Characters with Which My Children Could Have Identified
Jacob Ross and Ashley Thorpe in conversation with Heather Marks about intergenerational writing.
A Matter of Conscience: Alice Oswald
Alice Oswald on what it means to write with and from conscience.