The Words We Choose: A Roundtable with the International Booker Prize Shortlisted Translators

The shortlisted translators of the 2020 International Booker Prize in conversation with Georgina Godwin.

—Interviews | International Booker Prize

22 min read

When I Stop Writing, I Stop Living: An Interview with Maryse Condé

Guadeloupe's Maryse Condé, winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize, talks about liberation, satire, and her hopes for the world.

—Interviews

6 min read

Black Deaths Matter: About My Father

Patrice Lawrence writes about her father, Windrush, and death.

—Essays

8 min read

Storms

Barbadian speculative fiction writer Karen Lord writes before and after a storm.

—Essays

5 min read

Some Place to Call Home

Yvonne Battle-Felton on listening, fear, and home.

—Essays

6 min read

After Saartjie: The Persistence of Prejudice

Dzifa Benson writes on contemporary and historical perceptions of black women's bodies

—Essays

7 min read

Editorial: Black Voices

Our editorial on forthcoming work in PEN Transmissions.

—Archive | Editorials

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The Global Desi Story: A Conversation with Kritika Pandey

Kritika Pandey, winner of the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, talks about transgressing cultural norms, protesting, and Hinglish.

—Interviews

18 min read

Exils

To close our series on exile with the British Museum and Edmund de Waal, Scholastique Mukasonga writes a personal experience of exile as a Rwandan Tutsi

—PEN Transmissions x British Museum x Edmund de Waal

9 min read

Latinx Letters: An Interview with Leo Boix

Leo Boix discusses bilingualism, British Latinx poetry, and race in Latin America.

—Interviews

10 min read

Remembering Partition

For our series on exile with the British Museum and Edmund de Waal, Kavita Puri writes on partition, memory and exile.

—PEN Transmissions x British Museum x Edmund de Waal

9 min read

Exile, One Step Beyond

For our series on exile with the British Museum and Edmund de Waal, Selma Dabbagh writes on Palestine, desire, place and the future.

—PEN Transmissions x British Museum x Edmund de Waal

11 min read