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English PEN is the founding centre of a global literary network. We work to defend and promote freedom of expression, and to remove barriers to literature.
English PEN is the founding centre of a global literary network. We work to defend and promote freedom of expression, and to remove barriers to literature.
In a joint event, English PEN and Free Word will explore the private spaces that women carve out for themselves with three writers from Colombia, Singapore and Pakistan, all of whom have made adolescence the focus point of their recent work. Sharlene Teo‘s celebrated debut novel Ponti is a portrayal of the loneliness of teenagehood,
English PEN’s translation grant is now open for submissions. PEN Translates was launched in 2012, with support from Arts Council England, to encourage UK publishers to acquire more books from other languages. The award helps UK publishers to meet the costs of translating new works into English – whilst ensuring translators are acknowledged and paid
International Translation Day is back and this time… it’s a translation night! Join us for the essential ITD experience.
Do you have a book that you’ve always wanted to bring to an Anglophone readership? Well, here’s your chance. At this year’s International Translation Day, you get the chance to pitch to editors. Ailah Ahmed (Virago, Little, Brown), Federico Andornino (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) and Isabel Wall (Viking, Penguin Random House) will discuss three translation pitches
PEN publishes a new piece by imprisoned poet and lyricist Galal El-Behairy