‘They were taken alive, alive we want them returned!’
Supporting the struggle of the parents of disappeared Mexican students
South America
South America – PEN Transmissions
Publishers’ translation highlights 2015
Halt your book purchases: PEN Atlas has everything you need
Yule love these books in translation 2014
Roasting chestnuts on an open fire, taking the first whiff of mulled wine, and cracking open a great work of literature in translation: find your stocking-filler or winter-cheerer with these recommendations
Identity and durability
Paulo Scott writes for PEN Atlas about the need for Brazilian authors to move away from stories about 'white guys, living in the big urban centres', and how a vain desire for durability has stunted the literature of his country
Spelling out FLIP
Sophie Lewis writes for PEN Atlas about the once sleepy and secluded town of Paraty, Brazil, now home to one of the continent's best and most varied literary festivals
Writing, recreating, surviving
Tomás González writes for PEN Atlas about the act of literary creation, the qualms over writing about family tragedy, and how one shocking night on a beach in Colombia changed his life
To start all over again
Santiago Gamboa writes a special PEN Atlas dispatch this week to commemorate Gabriel García Márquez, the way that he changed literature, and the deep love for his books from everyday readers to presidents
Publishers’ highlights in 2014: part 1
Chase away those stormy blues with a new book for the new year.
The present of the past of things
Patricio Pron writes a moving piece for PEN Atlas, about an encounter in a small German city that made him reflect on collective guilt, individual responsibility and the nature of the past - both for a person and a country
PEN Atlas Q&A – Alejandro Zambra, author of Ways of Going Home
PEN Atlas editor Tasja Dorkofikis talks to Alejandro Zambra about his new novel, the responsibility of memory and the nation of Chile being in a period of convalescence
PEN Atlas Q&A – Juan Gabriel Vásquez, author of The Sound of Things Falling
PEN Atlas editor Tasja Dorkofikis talks to critically acclaimed writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Of Poets and Aviators: Tagore, Neruda, Césaire
Colombian author Santiago Gamboa writes for PEN Atlas, telling the amazing story of his poet friend and what he was asked to do one day in his job as an air traffic controller