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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.
English PEN’s PEN Presents initiative seeks to help UK publishers to discover – and publish – the most exciting books from around the world, and to support literary translators in their development as advocates for international literature. Our Translation Pitch event on 8 June 2017 brought together all six shortlisted translators from our PEN Presents…
Norwegian author Vigdis Hjorth talks to PEN Atlas about her efforts to combine the personal with the political in her novels.
Translation
English PEN today announces its latest list of PEN Translates award winners. The list includes books translated from 14 languages and 16 countries, including a Uyghur memoir, Palestinian short stories, Somali poetry, a Czech feminist novel, an anthology of Russian women literature, Belarusian essays and a Chinese graphic novel/memoir. English PEN is encouraged to note
Clare Mulley reports on a visit by one of Poland’s most famous writers to the English PEN Literary Salon
The 2017 Man Booker International Prize long list, announced today, includes four books that have received a translation award from English PEN.