Freedom of the press in Ethiopia
As Ethiopia prepares for its general elections this month, journalist and writer Tullu Liban writes on corruption, media censorship and government intimidation
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PEN Atlas Q&A: Peter Stamm
In this PEN Atlas Q&A, PEN Atlas editor Tasja Dorkofikis interviews Peter Stamm, one of Switzerland’s best-known writers and author of the novel All Days Are Night and short story collection We Are Flying, published by Portobello Books this month.
Self-censorship and silence
Sanjuana Martínez on state-sanctioned violence against journalists in Mexico – and why they stay and carry on regardless
Autocensura y silencio
Sanjuana Martínez on state-sanctioned violence against journalists in Mexico – and why they stay and carry on regardless
A rather grim story
Writer and translator Daniel Hahn writes from Bologna Children's Book Fair about the challenge of bringing more children's literature from 'the world' into English
The long road home
‘The ones who managed to escape’ and ‘the ones who didn’t live to tell the tale’ - Juan Pablo Villalobos on how we have failed young people in Latin America
A form close to home
Dorthe Nors, author of the award-winning Karate Chop, reflects on her journey towards the short story form
Cherishing Mexico's oral culture
Pergentino José Ruiz on the importance of Mexico's indigenous languages and oral culture
And when the Mexican comic emerged from the sea…
In the latest of our PEN Atlas Mexican series, Laia Jufresa muses on the fall and rise of Mexican comics
The optimist's words
Yuri Herrera on impunity and corruption in Mexico, and the careful word choices of President Enrique Peña Nieto
Maidan: one year on
Andrey Kurkov, Vice-President of Ukrainian PEN, reports on his country's revolution and counter-revolution after the first year
The Red Terror and Maximilian Voloshin
Robert Chandler writes about one of the hidden gems in The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry
How Korean it is
Deborah Smith writes for PEN Atlas about the complex experience of bringing a hit South Korean novel to an English-speaking audience
You speak such good German
Alina Bronsky, Russian-born but writing in German, charts the challenges and opportunities faced by the multilingual author
From Afrikaans to English: on writing and translating 'The Alphabet of Birds'
S J Naudé writes about the experience of translating your own short story collection
‘They were taken alive, alive we want them returned!’
Supporting the struggle of the parents of disappeared Mexican students
Publishers’ translation highlights 2015
Halt your book purchases: PEN Atlas has everything you need
Why I write what I write?
Farnoosh Moshiri details the tragic betrayal of the revolution in Iran