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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.

—Essays

9 min read

Jacqueline Rose’s PEN Pinter Prize 2026 Speech

Delivered at the British Library.

—Long reads

14 min read

Between Worlds: Sabrina Mahfouz’s Encomium for Leila Aboulela

Sabrina Mahfouz's 2025 PEN Pinter Prize encomium.

—Essays

5 min read

Stella Gaitano’s PEN Pinter Prize Writer of Courage 2025 Speech

Stella Gaitano, PEN Pinter Prize Writer of Courage 2025.

—Essays

8 min read

The Inaccurate Mirror: Leila Aboulela’s PEN Pinter Prize 2025 Speech

Leila Aboulela's PEN Pinter Prize 2025 speech.

—Long reads

11 min read

Naomi Klein: An Encomium to Arundhati Roy and Alaa Abd el‑Fattah

Naomi Klein's PEN Pinter Prize 2024 encomium.

—Long reads

12 min read

Lina Attalah’s Speech for Alaa Abd el-Fattah, 2024 PEN Pinter Prize Writer of Courage

Lina Attalah's PEN Pinter Prize 2024 speech.

—Long reads

9 min read

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.

—Long reads

15 min read

It’s Michael Rosen!

Joseph Coelho on his poem marking Michael Rosen winning the 2023 PEN Pinter Prize

—Essays

5 min read

In the Midst of This, I Write

Michael Rosen's PEN Pinter Prize 2023 speech

—Long reads

17 min read

For Malorie

Dapo Adeola on his illustration marking Malorie Blackman winning the 2022 PEN Pinter Prize

—Essays

6 min read

Just Sayin’

Malorie Blackman's PEN Pinter Prize 2022 speech

—Long reads

15 min read

Listening to the Flesh: For Tsitsi Dangarembga

Panashe Chigumadzi on Tsitsi Dangarembga, commissioned to celebrate Dangarembga winning the 2021 PEN Pinter Prize.

—Essays

6 min read

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.

—Interviews

6 min read

Why I Wrote ‘England Street’

Read Jay Bernard's 'England Street (Reggae fi Linton)', commissioned to celebrate Linton Kwesi Johnson winning the 2020 PEN Pinter Prize. Featuring a specially commissioned introduction to the poem from Jay.

—Essays

8 min read

Lydia Cacho has gone

In this week’s PEN Atlas piece, Sanjuana Martinez pays tribute to her friend and colleague Lydia Cacho who has been forced to temporarily flee their native Mexico in the wake of terrifying deaths threats.

—Archive

10 min read