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

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

How Do I Reconcile these Irreconcilable Things?

For our series on exile with the British Museum and Edmund de Waal, Taqralik Partridge writes on Scotland, Canada, and language loss

—PEN Transmissions x British Museum x Edmund de Waal

10 min read

This Library Is Not an Artwork: An Interview with Edmund de Waal

To open our series with the British Museum and Edmund de Waal, Edmund speaks to us about his library of exile

—PEN Transmissions x British Museum x Edmund de Waal

9 min read

A Hideous Kind of Tetris: Eley Williams in Conversation with Peggy Hughes

As part of our Digital Literary Salon, Eley Williams speaks to Peggy Hughes about dictionaries, constructing characters, and playing literary Tetris.

—Digital Literary Salon

13 min read

Interrogating Bodies: Irenosen Okojie in Conversation with Aki Schilz

As part of our Digital Literary Salon, Irenosen Okojie speaks to Aki Schilz about bodies, musicality, and placing black women at the centre.

—Digital Literary Salon

14 min read

The Darker Emotions of Being a Woman

As part of our Digital Literary Salon, Hazel Barkworth speaks to Hannah Trevarthen about summertime, the writing process, and ‘unlikeable’ women characters.

—Digital Literary Salon

9 min read

Holding Up a Funhouse Mirror: Lavie Tidhar in Conversation with Robert Sharp

As part of our Digital Literary Salon, Lavie Tidhar speaks to Robert Sharp about speculative fiction, cultural appropriation, and what we can – and should – write.

—Digital Literary Salon

13 min read

Being Seen: Dean Atta in Conversation with Keith Jarrett

As part of our Digital Literary Salon, Dean Atta speaks to Keith Jarrett about queer black British experience, schools, and writing for teens.

—Digital Literary Salon

11 min read

Out of the Ashes

The last in our series with Granta magazine on writers and their translators, Geovani Martins writes new short fiction, and Julia Sanches writes on translating it.

—PEN Transmissions x Granta

16 min read

Connecting Worlds, Inventing Worlds

The second in our series with Granta on writers and their translators, José Eduardo Agualusa and Daniel Hahn share an embrace.

—PEN Transmissions x Granta

14 min read

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

The first in our series with Granta on writers and their translators, Peter Stamm pens new short fiction and Michael Hofmann writes on translating Stamm.

—PEN Transmissions x Granta

7 min read