You speak such good German
Alina Bronsky, Russian-born but writing in German, charts the challenges and opportunities faced by the multilingual author
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Articles
From Afrikaans to English: on writing and translating 'The Alphabet of Birds'
S J Naudé writes about the experience of translating your own short story collection
‘They were taken alive, alive we want them returned!’
Supporting the struggle of the parents of disappeared Mexican students
Publishers’ translation highlights 2015
Halt your book purchases: PEN Atlas has everything you need
Why I write what I write?
Farnoosh Moshiri details the tragic betrayal of the revolution in Iran
Rain and Bamboo
Juan Tomas Avila Laurel writes from Equatorial Guinea about local literature and languages of faraway places
Yule love these books in translation 2014
Roasting chestnuts on an open fire, taking the first whiff of mulled wine, and cracking open a great work of literature in translation: find your stocking-filler or winter-cheerer with these recommendations
Memory and Responsibility
Having won the 2014 Jan Michalski Prize for Road to Donbass, Serhiy Zhadan writes for PEN Atlas
But why do you write your books in English and Turkish?
Elif Shafak investigates what makes the bilingual author choose to write in one language and not another
'I can read': life and death in Guerrero
Juan Villoro writes about the recent abductions and murders of students in Mexico
PEN Atlas Q&A: Helle Helle, author of ‘This Should Be Written in the Present Tense’
Helle Helle is one of Denmark’s most widely read writers. In This Should Be Written in the Present Tense, her first novel translated into English, she writes about a young woman, Dorte Hansen
To speak or not to speak, that is the question
Boualem Sansal charts the history of Algeria and how it ties into the history of free expression in his country