Between Worlds: Sabrina Mahfouz’s Encomium for Leila Aboulela
Sabrina Mahfouz's 2025 PEN Pinter Prize encomium.
courage
courage – PEN Transmissions
Stella Gaitano’s PEN Pinter Prize Writer of Courage 2025 Speech
Stella Gaitano, PEN Pinter Prize Writer of Courage 2025.
The Inaccurate Mirror: Leila Aboulela’s PEN Pinter Prize 2025 Speech
Leila Aboulela's PEN Pinter Prize 2025 speech.
The Wolf No Longer Lives in the Dark Hallway
Magdalena Blažević on the massacre of Kiseljak.
Postcards
On International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners in Belarus, Nobel Laureate Ales Bialiatski on letters, solidarity, and compassion. Translated by Valzhyna Mort.
Naomi Klein: An Encomium to Arundhati Roy and Alaa Abd el‑Fattah
Naomi Klein's PEN Pinter Prize 2024 encomium.
Lina Attalah’s Speech for Alaa Abd el-Fattah, 2024 PEN Pinter Prize Writer of Courage
Lina Attalah's PEN Pinter Prize 2024 speech.
The Girls Are Playing with Fire: An Interview with Johanne Lykke Holm
Johanne Lykke Holm on gender, witches, and doppelgängers.
No Propaganda on Earth Can Hide the Wound that is Palestine: Arundhati Roy’s PEN Pinter Prize 2024 Speech
Arundhati Roy's PEN Pinter Prize 2024 speech.
Creativity Rests in Hunting for the Freedom We Want to Have
Ma Thida on freedom, art, and Myanmar.
When You Are Stripped of All Else, You Will Need Poetry
lisa minerva luxx on poetry, memory, and breathing.
Relishing In My Pain
Simone Yasmin on the catharsis, and trauma, of performing poetry
It’s Michael Rosen!
Joseph Coelho on his poem marking Michael Rosen winning the 2023 PEN Pinter Prize
In the Midst of This, I Write
Michael Rosen's PEN Pinter Prize 2023 speech
The Hotel
Zainab Akhlaqi, after leaving Afghanistan. Translated by Zubair Popalzai.
Prison Poems
Mahvash Sabet on how she got her poems out of Evin Prison with the bravery of the women of Iran
To Fix Everything: In Eternal Memory of Victoria Amelina
By Oleksandr Mykhed. Translated by Maryna Gibson.
A Fish Meeting Water: A Conversation with Baek Sehee and Anton Hur
Baek Sehee and Anton Hur on mental health, collaboration and finding perspective.
About My Mother (and Other Things in Parentheses)
Norman Erikson Pasaribu on a mother’s choice and how writing saved them
Just Sayin’
Malorie Blackman's PEN Pinter Prize 2022 speech
An Endangered Species in Uganda
Stella Nyanzi on dissident writers and free expression in Uganda.
To Dearest, Cherished and Longed Amanuel
Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu writes to Amanuel Asrat on his 50th birthday. Translated by Issayas Beyene.
Shuddhashar at 30: An Interview with Tutul
Bangladeshi publisher Tutul – with whom Margaret Atwood shared her 2016 PEN Pinter Prize – discusses exile, free thinking, and thirty years of the magazine and publisher Shuddhashar.
The 2016 PEN Pinter International Writer of Courage Award speech
Translated from the Bangla by Arunava Sinha.