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Ali Abu Yasin's PEN Pinter Prize Writer of Courage 2026 speech. Translated by Sawad Hussain. Delivered at the British Library.
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Jacqueline Rose’s PEN Pinter Prize 2026 Speech
Delivered at the British Library.
In the Unlimited Confines of My Creativity, I Was Free
Hannah Branston and Ade Adedeji on art and activism.
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.
Respectable Writers and Useful Scenery
Kamila Shamsie's 2025 PEN Lecture.
Postcards
On International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners in Belarus, Nobel Laureate Ales Bialiatski on letters, solidarity, and compassion. Translated by Valzhyna Mort.
I Don’t Want to Traumatise Children, but I Do Want to Be Truthful: A Conversation with Jacqueline Wilson
Jacqueline Wilson on letters, empathy, book bans.
After the War Ends
Tetyana Teren on time in London with Victoria Amelina. Translated by Larissa Babij.
Naomi Klein: An Encomium to Arundhati Roy and Alaa Abd el‑Fattah
Naomi Klein's PEN Pinter Prize 2024 encomium.
The Mud of Old Damascus Became My Mud: A Conversation with Issam Kourbaj
Issam Kourbaj on found art, the imagery of boats, and urgent archives.
Lina Attalah’s Speech for Alaa Abd el-Fattah, 2024 PEN Pinter Prize Writer of Courage
Lina Attalah's PEN Pinter Prize 2024 speech.
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.
You Can Become an Extremist in the Course of a Day: An Interview with Friða Ísberg
Friða Ísberg on freedom, referenda and Icelandic literature.
Creativity Rests in Hunting for the Freedom We Want to Have
Ma Thida on freedom, art, and Myanmar.
Letting Us Adults In on a Secret: An Interview with Liliana Corobca and Monica Cure
Liliana Corobca and Monica Cure on children, Moldova, and secrets.
Art and Fire: An Interview with Ben Okri
Ben Okri on climate crisis, the purpose of writing, and what we leave behind.
Bookpocalypse: AI and the Risks to Literature and Free Expression
Monica Ali's PEN H.G. Wells Lecture
Dice
By Gazan writer Nayrouz Qarmout, translated by Sawad Hussain and Perween Richards.
Painful Encounters with Bureaucracy
Hanna Komar on visas, Belarus, and sunsets on Peckham Rye.
In the Midst of This, I Write
Michael Rosen's PEN Pinter Prize 2023 speech
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.
I’m Not Trying to Write Japanese Literature Per Se: Aoko Matsuda in Conversation with Polly Barton
Aoko Matsuda and Polly Barton on prizes, patriarchy and politics.
Searches: An Interview with Daniel Loedel
Daniel Loedel on ghost stories, love stories, and searches after the 70s Argentine dictatorship.
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.
Salman the Wordsmith
By Zadie Smith.
Books, Books, Books
Julian Barnes on collecting books, reading books, and annotating books.