Writing in the Language of ‘the Other’

In another fascinating piece for PEN Atlas, Gazmend Kapllani recounts his journey through languages, the difficulties and opportunities of being a multi-lingual author and how the language of the Other goes back to Homer and the birth of storytelling

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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…

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Writing In A City That’s Collapsing

English PEN Launches the PEN Atlas with this piece by Athens based writer Gazmend Kapllani.

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