When a Country’s Soul Succumbs: Laws, Migration and Culture
The 2022 StAnza Lecture by Mona Arshi.
and other stories
and other stories – PEN Transmissions
Everyone’s In, Everyone’s Out: A Conversation with Tice Cin
Tice Cin on North London, North Cyprus, and sensitivity reads.
Mario Levrero in Conversation with Mario Levrero
An imaginary interview with Mario Levrero and Mario Levrero, translated and introduced by Annie McDermott.
Memories of the Fires
El Salvador's Claudia Hernández on war, women, and burning. Translated by Julia Sanches.
Disturbing the Comfortable and Comforting the Disturbed
Andrzej Tichý writes on music and migrant experience
Fragments
The winner of the European Prize for Literature 2009 writes six new short stories for PEN Atlas to mark the publication of her newest book, Trysting.
Far from Pompeii
Susana Moreira Marques, author of Now and at the Hour of our Death, writes of obsolescence, loss and remembering in a rural town in northern Portugal.
Finding the sworn virgin
Elvira Dones takes PEN Atlas to the mountains of Albania, where the story of an ancient custom, ideas about gender, and the resilient women who subverted both, helped the author to find a connection back to her homeland
The translator as literary activist
Jethro Soutar writes for PEN Atlas on the urgent case of Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, the PEN-award-winning author whom he translates and is now trying to help protect, as Juan faces persecution from the regime in Equitorial Guinea
Three Years Old: the reality of publishing translated fiction
What does the future hold for the publishing of literature in translation? Stefan Tobler from And Other Stories takes us through the independents, small presses, social enterprises and community interest companies using innovative ways to publish work from around the world
Publishers’ highlights for 2013
This week PEN Atlas asks UK publishers about the translated books they are excited about publishing in 2013 - an intriguing list of books to look forward to this year, so clear your bookshelves!