PEN Atlas Q&A – Artur Domosławski, author of Ryszard Kapuściński: A Life
PEN Atlas editor Tasja Dorkofikis talks to Artur Domosławski, author of the controversial and popular biography Ryszard Kapuściński: A Life.
PEN Transmissions
Articles
Entertainment for the Middle Classes? – The success of Herman Koch
Over a million copies sold, multiple translations, a stage adaptation - does Herman Koch's The Dinner show us a new way for Dutch literature? Michele Hutchison investigates for PEN Atlas
Dispatch from Syria: Capturing the Truth
Following on from her piece for the English PEN magazine, Samar Yazbek describes the dangerous, often fatal struggle of capturing the truth of the Syrian revolution
Way to an unknown world
Krys Lee reports for PEN Atlas from the Edinburgh International Book Festival, where she appeared on the panel 'New American Voices'.
Scottish Translation
Sold-out duels, ninjas versus saints, and the invisible translator made visible... Daniel Hahn reports from Edinburgh International Book Festival for PEN Atlas
Why we keep going
In this week's PEN Atlas piece, Lydia Cacho writes about the post-traumatic stress of being a persecuted journalist, and the media's appetite for titillation rather than indignation
Lydia Cacho has gone
In this week’s PEN Atlas piece, Sanjuana Martinez pays tribute to her friend and colleague Lydia Cacho who has been forced to temporarily flee their native Mexico in the wake of terrifying deaths threats.
Roots of Corruption: the perils of free expression in Azerbaijan
In this week's PEN Atlas piece Azerbaijani writer and dissident Emin Milli discusses the power - and corruption - of words and reflects on journalist Khadija Ismayilova's recent experience of blackmail by the authorities
History and hysteria: The private libraries of dictators
In this week’s PEN Atlas piece from Gazmend Kapllani, we hear about the books that were damned and banned during the communist regime in Albania, only to resurface in some unlikely places…
Grammar and Glamour: On Translating Diego Marani’s New Finnish Grammar
Following our previous PEN Atlas piece by Diego Marani, his English translator Judith Landry talks us through the strange music of Finnish and translation as walking a tight-rope
Worlds apart: Russia online and offline
In this week's PEN Atlas piece, Arkady Babchenko writes on freedom of speech, media and the internet in Russia
Translation as a Creative Process
In this week's PEN Atlas piece, award-winning Italian writer and European Commission official Diego Marani considers the role of the author in the translation process