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PEN American Center
PEN American Center (PEN), founded in 1922 and based in New York City, works to advance literature, to defend free expression, and to foster international literary fellowship. The Center has a membership of 3,300 writers, editors, and translators. PEN American Center is the largest of the 144 centers that belong to International PEN, the worldwide association of writers that defends those who are harassed, imprisoned and killed for their views. PEN American Center is one of two PEN centers located in the USA, the other is PEN Center USA in Los Angeles, it covers the USA west of the Mississippi.
Full membership in PEN generally requires the publication of one or more books of a literary character, or one or more play produced in a professional venue. Editors with a career of five years or more are also eligible, as are many publishers, agents, and publicists and other members of the literary publishing community. Recently, PEN created an associate tier of membership, which is open to the general public.
Over the years, PEN American Center's membership has included many of the leading lights in the American literary establishment, including Edward Albee, Paul Auster, James Baldwin, Giannina Braschi, Willa Cather, Don De Lillo, Robert Frost, Tony Kushner, Langston Hughes, Thomas Mann, Arthur Miller, Marianne Moore, Susan Sontag, Salman Rushdie and John Steinbeck.
In addition to defending persecuted writers, PEN American Center sponsors public literary programs and forums on current issues, sends prominent authors to inner-city schools to encourage reading and writing, administers literary prizes, promotes international literature that might otherwise go unread in the United States, and offers grants and loans to writers facing financial or Medical Emergencies.
PEN is also a member of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange, a global network of nongovernmental organizations that monitors free expression violations worldwide and defends journalists, writers, human rights activists and Internet users who are persecuted for exercising their right to freedom of expression.
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Broadway World
November 15, 2017
His work has been seen at many venues including SXSW, Centre Pompidou, BAM, SXSW, Miami Art Basel, and PEN American Center and has ...
The Independent Weekly
November 15, 2017
Butler's dedication to her craft earned her Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards, a lifetime achievement award from the PEN American Center, and ...
The Guardian
November 4, 2017
The following month, a week before Trump's inauguration, the PEN American Center organised events around the country to reject the assault ...
HarpersBAZAAR.com
October 31, 2017
Susan was a powerful ally during my years of trouble after the publication of The Satanic Verses; as president of PEN American Center, she ...
NPR
January 25, 2016
The free-speech organization PEN American Center says it is giving its 2016 PEN/Allen award to author J.K. Rowling. The prize honors "a ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
July 25, 2017
By Suzanne NosselSuzanne Nossel is executive director of the Pen American Center and was formerly deputy assistant secretary of state forÃÂ ...
Irish Echo
July 25, 2017
Fleming served as president of the Society of American Historians and the PEN American Center. He also spent ten years as chairman of theÃÂ ...
WNPR News
May 7, 2017
The Most Beautiful Room in New York is a new play by The New Yorker essayist Adam Gopnik. It's about home and food and family, and isÃÂ ...
Quartz
November 4, 2016
... in the city more afraid to publish sensitive books, according to a report by the PEN American Center, a writers' group based in New York.
NPR
January 25, 2016
The free-speech organization PEN American Center says it is giving its 2016 PEN/Allen award to author J.K. Rowling. The prize honors "aÃÂ ...
New York Times
April 27, 2015
The decision by PEN American Center to give its annual Freedom of Expression Courage award to the French satirical newspaper CharlieÃÂ ...
Irish Times
March 27, 2017
But he wanted to remain anonymous, so he approached the PEN American Center about setting up a translation fund. You might wonder - as I did - how a translator, even a well-known one with a secure job at a university, could amass $734,000 and be in aÃÂ ...
Pacific University
March 23, 2017
PEN American Center is the U.S. branch of the world's leading international literary and human rights organization. PEN International was founded in 1921 in direct response to the ethnic and national divisions that contributed to the First World War.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
March 20, 2017
Last month, one of its titles garnered a prestigious award to be presented by the French Embassy and the PEN American Center. And arguably the most distinguished prize for works about John Milton, The John Shawcross Award, has been won by DuquesneÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
March 14, 2017
Yes, it's a flawed body. But if Trump abandons the HRC, it will give Russia, China, and Iran a free hand to rewrite the global rules on human rights.
Pittsburg Morning Sun
March 7, 2017
... including a Guggenheim and a Fulbright, a Director's Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, Prose is a former president of PEN American Center, and a member of the American AcademyÃÂ ...
Hong Kong Free Press
February 26, 2017
The intrinsic merit in Ilham's activities and the egregious injustice of his imprisonment have been acknowledged internationally: he was the recipient of the PEN American Center's Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award and just recently named one ofÃÂ ...
Waco Tribune-Herald
February 18, 2017
... our system of government is stronger than the will of any one man. If that doesn't prove true here in the United States, it's hard to imagine it will continue to mean anything anywhere else.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
February 15, 2017
... a forthcoming title, "Reading the Torah: Beyond the Fundamentalist and Scientific Approaches" by Catherine Chalier, has just been named winner of a French Voices Award from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the PEN American Center.
Chicago Tribune
February 15, 2017
President Donald Trump's attack on the federal judiciary last week came off to many as just the latest in his pattern of insults du jour, lobbed against anyone daring to defy the White House's designs.
Deutsche Welle
February 9, 2017
Francine Prose, a writer and former president of the PEN American Center, whose article in Britain's "Guardian" newspaper has been widely credited with having spawned the idea of a general strike, is less concerned with organizing tactics or the ...
Inside Higher Ed
February 7, 2017
As recently as the Monday before the announcement, he said, the press was notified that one of its titles had won the French Voices Award, which is presented by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the PEN American Center. Garrett alsoÃÂ ...
Gadis
February 6, 2017
Meski menuai banyak kontroversi dan penahanan selama hidupnya, nggak sedikit penghargaan yang ia dapatkan. Mulai dari Freedom to Write Award dari PEN American Center di Amerika tahun 1988 sampai Centenario Pablo Neruda di Chilli pada 2004.
Detikcom
February 5, 2017
Atas konsistensinya, ia diganjar puluhan penghargaan termasuk Freedom to Write Award dari PEN American Center, AS pada 1988, Wertheim Award dari Belanda pada 1995, Ramon Magsaysay Award dari Filipina pada 1995, Hadiah Budaya Asia FukuokaÃÂ ...
Mic
February 2, 2017
In her piece for the Guardian, Prose - formerly president of the PEN American Center - wrote in support of a general national strike, saying it would not be as easily ignored as separate protests and marches.
Bard News
January 23, 2017
She is a contributing editor at Harper's, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities, and former president of PEN American Center. She is aÃÂ ...
Paste Magazine
January 20, 2017
Newsweek spoke with Suzanne Nossel, executive director of PEN American Center, and she told the publication, "If the campaign and his past history are indication, this will be a president who is dismissive of the role of the press.
amNY
January 19, 2017
She was speaking at the event "Writers Resist: Louder Together for Free Expression" sponsored by PEN American Center, which advances literature.
CBC.ca
January 17, 2017
Past recipients include Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, the Library of America and the PEN American Center. Atwood is the first Canadian to receive this honour.
http://www.anewdomain.net/
January 8, 2017
The PEN American Center, which represents writers, is speaking out. Says PEN exec director Suzanne Nossel: We have long known that aggressive surveillance regimes in places like the Soviet Bloc, China, Iran and elsewhere have cramped discourse andÃÂ ...
The Nation.
January 4, 2017
A recent study by PEN American Center, the writers' organization, found that one in six writers had curbed their content out of fear of surveillance.
The National Business Review
January 2, 2017
A 2014 study by PEN American Center found that journalists and writers from more than 50 countries reported an increase in self-censorship in fear of government surveillance since the Snowden revelations.
Foreign Policy (blog)
December 28, 2016
The president-elect doesn't seem fond of Turtle Bay. But he's going to need it more than he thinks. By Suzanne NosselSuzanne Nossel is executive director of the Pen American Center and was formerly deputy assistant secretary of state for internationalÃÂ ...
Albany Times Union (blog)
December 12, 2016
pensign Tonight I attended a holiday party sponsored by the PEN American Center, an organization of writers committed to freedom of expression.
World Politics Review
December 9, 2016
On Dec. 4, a man with an assault rifle entered a Washington, D.C., pizza shop, planning to "self-investigate" a conspiracy theory purporting that Hillary Clinton was at the center of a "pedophilia ring" being run out of the restaurant.
The National Memo (blog)
November 13, 2016
His rise was "the most distressing campaign in memory, from the perspective of press freedom," says Suzanne Nossel, the executive director of PEN American Center, which advocates for free expression. In short, there has probably never been a ...
Romper
November 13, 2016
Still, there's certainly a reason that Suzanne Nossel, the executive director of PEN American Center, told Newsweek that Trump ran "the most distressing campaign in memory, from the perspective of press freedom.
Newsweek
November 12, 2016
His rise was "the most distressing campaign in memory, from the perspective of press freedom," says Suzanne Nossel, the executive director of PEN American Center, which advocates for free expression. In short, there has probably never been a ...
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
November 10, 2016
In addition, she served two consecutive terms as president of the PEN American Center, was a finalist for the National Book Award for her novel "Blue Angel" and received the Rome Prize in Literature in 2006.
Columbus Post
November 6, 2016
NEW YORK (AP) - Toni Morrison received a lifetime achievement award Thursday night from the PEN American Center, a ceremony of music and words that ended with a special treat from the guest of honor: An excerpt from a novel in progress.
WPRL
November 5, 2016
She's the former president of the PEN American Center and a distinguished visiting writer at Bard College and joins us from New York.
El Paso Times
November 5, 2016
Toni Morrison received a lifetime achievement award recently from the PEN American Center, a ceremony of music and words that ended with a special treat from the guest of honor: An excerpt from a novel in progress.
Quartz
November 4, 2016
The abduction of five Hong Kong booksellers by Chinese authorities last year has made publishers in the city more afraid to publish sensitive books, according to a report by the PEN American Center, a writers' group based in New York. Of the five ...
New Jersey Herald
October 29, 2016
The 85-year-old writer receives a lifetime achievement award from the PEN American Center. 10. WORLD SERIES RETURNS TO WRIGLEY FOR FIRST TIME IN 71 YEARS.
Economic Times
October 28, 2016
NEW YORK: American author Toni Morrison has received a lifetime achievement award from the PEN American Center. Hundreds of people gathered Thursday night at the New School auditorium in Manhattan to recognize Morrison.
WTHR
October 28, 2016
(WTHR) - Indianapolis artist Pamela Bliss is in London this week painting for the "Loving Vincent" film. Bliss was selected along with 100 others out of 5,000 applicants.
Economic Times
October 28, 2016
NEW YORK: American author Toni Morrison has received a lifetime achievement award from the PEN American Center. Hundreds of people gathered Thursday night at the New School auditorium in Manhattan to recognize Morrison.
Yale Daily News (blog)
October 26, 2016
The 100-page report, titled "And Campus for All: Diversity, Inclusion, and Freedom of Speech at U.S. Universities," was released on Oct. 17 by the PEN American Center, an association of writers and editors dedicated to promoting free speech and freedom ...
Economic Times
October 25, 2016
Startups, billion-dollar valuations and high octane mergers and acquisitions are commonplace phenomena today. But that was hardly the case circa 1999.
Economic Times
October 24, 2016
For someone who has spent 25 years in the fashion industry, there is no sense of ennui in Ashish N Soni when it comes to creativity.
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