Breaking Lines: An Interview with Tine Høeg
Danish writer Tine Høeg discusses line breaks, desire and and narrative puzzles.
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On the Pacific Coast: The English PEN Membership Interview Pilar Quintana and Lisa Dillman
Pilar Quintana and Lisa Dillman, author and translator of PEN Translates award-winning The Bitch, are interviewed by the English PEN Membership from their homes in Colombia and the USA.
Shuddhashar at 30: An Interview with Tutul
Bangladeshi publisher Tutul – with whom Margaret Atwood shared her 2016 PEN Pinter Prize – discusses exile, free thinking, and thirty years of the magazine and publisher Shuddhashar.
Already Bedfellows: A Long Interview with So Mayer
So Mayer discusses fascism, cinema, genderqueerness and freedom of expression.
Why I Wrote ‘England Street’
Read Jay Bernard's 'England Street (Reggae fi Linton)', commissioned to celebrate Linton Kwesi Johnson winning the 2020 PEN Pinter Prize. Featuring a specially commissioned introduction to the poem from Jay.
A Dossier of Hate
Priyamavada Gopal writes on her experience of online hatred, and calls for an end to a politics of hate.
Translating Every Day: The Importance and Impossibility of Decolonising Translation
Kavita Bhanot writes on mother-tongue shame, translating across generations, and decolonising translation.
When an Hour Stretched into A Day
Tsitsi Dangarembga, shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, writes on demonstrating, writing, and being arrested.
On the Other Side of the Door that Leads to Hell: An Interview with Selva Almada
Argentinian writer Selva Almada discusses femicide, violence in lockdown, and how to write historic trauma.
Another Unknown Person Ringing at My Door: A Statement from Svetlana Alexievich
A statement from Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Laureate and Chair of Belarusian PEN.
Hope in a Bottle of Honey
Kurdish writer Nurcan Baysal responds to a letter from Nedim Türfent.
Translating Fascisms
Alex Valente on translating fascism between Italy, the UK and the US.