updated Tue. August 13, 2024
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The Bookseller
March 8, 2018
PEN International is launching a "Women's Manifesto" on International Women's Day (8th March): a set of principles aiming to protect women's free expression by "combating and eliminating the silencing of women worldwide, whether through censorship, harassment, or violence". The manifesto is intendedÃâà...
Times of India (blog)
February 23, 2018
So when Pen International launched its South India chapter a couple of months ago, it cited the Madhorubhagan episode as an example of attack on a writer's freedom of expression. The new chapter aims to protect the freedom of expression of writers and focus on literature in Tamil, Telugu, Urdu,Ãâà...
The Hindu
February 17, 2018
Carles Torner, one of the leading modern Catalan poets, is also the Executive Director of PEN International, with which he has worked for over 20 years. He has been the chair of their Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee. Torner was in Chennai to speak about PEN's South Indian Chapter, theirÃâà...
Las Vegas Sun
February 16, 2018
"These verdicts, the first against journalists accused of being connected to the July 2016 failed coup, set a devastating precedent for the many other journalists and writers in Turkey who are being tried on similarly spurious charges," said Jennifer Clement, president of PEN International. Ahmet Altan, aÃâà...
India Today
February 16, 2018
Pune, Feb 16 (PTI) Writers from across the world would discuss threats being faced by the members of their fraternity and other issues concerning them at a convention to be held here in September. PEN International, a worldwide association of writers that seeks to promote literature and freedom ofÃâà...
IFEX
February 15, 2018
"A guilty verdict in this case will set an extremely negative precedent for the many cases where journalists and writers are being tried on groundless charges related to the coup attempt," said Sarah Clarke who observed the hearings for PEN International at Silivri prison. "It is essential that the internationalÃâà...
Pune Mirror
February 14, 2018
The annual meeting of PEN International will be held for the first time in India, in September this year. The Congress, which will bring together representatives of 140 PEN centres from around the world, will mark the 150th birthday of Mahatma Gandhi on October 2 this year. The event, in Pune, will alsoÃâà...
