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2010 PEN World Voices Festival: 150 Writers, 40 Countries, 7 Days
Monday, April 26 7 p.m. The Diversity Test: Gender and Literature in Translation With Lorraine Adams, Alex Epstein, Andrea Levy, and Norman Rush; moderated by Claire Messud Tuesday, April 27 7 p.m. The 2010 PEN Literary Gala Wednesday, April 28 10 a.m The Work Before the Work: A Special Program for High School Students With Annecy Báez, Rawi Hage, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh,... »
WRITERS TO RALLY FOR RELEASE OF CHINESE COLLEAGUE LIU XIAOBO
The PEN American Center is organizing a New Year’s Eve demonstration by prominent writers against the Chinese government’s sentencing of their colleague, Liu Xiaobo. On Christmas Day, Xiaobo was sentenced to 11 years in Chinese prison for “inciting subversion of state power.” On New Year’s Eve at 11 AM on... »
Superlative Speeches from the 2009 PEN Literary Awards
The 2009 PEN Literary Awards were given out in front of a standing-room only audience at Elebash Recital Hall tonight. I’ve taken the liberty of summing up the ceremony by handing out my own set of superlatives for the night’s speeches. A full listing of awards and their recipients appears below. Enjoy! Short but Sweet: Jeffrey... »
The 2009 Rattapallax/PEN World Voices Literary Film Feast
This year’s Rattaplax Pen World Voices Literary Film Feast took place on April 28, 2009 at Instituto Cervantes, and featured a diverse array of short films from around the globe, highlighting selections from Rattapallax DVD Magazine. Hollywood Jerome was based on the spoken-word poetry of Malik Yosef, and directed by Frey Hoffman (the Director of Kanye... »
PEN Author Spotlight: Morten Ramsland’s “Doghead” Mixes Highbrow, Lowbrow Humor In Multigenerational Family Saga
“Somewhere in Eastern Germany, my grandfather Askild is running across an open plain. The Germans are after him, and he has lost one of his shoes; it’s freezing. The half moon casts a pale glow over the landscape, transforming it into a ploughed field with frozen soldiers partly buried in mud….My father has not... »