PEN World Voices

  • Choosing the Nobel, farewell Tadeusz Różewicz, and more

    May 2, 2014 Kaitlin Hawkins
    It was another great week, filled with announcements from various literary prizes. Below, we’ve provided links to announcements about the Best Translated Book Awards, the Lambda Literary Prize, and Or…

  • PEN 2013: The "African Writer"

    May 7, 2013 Shaun Randol
    In my travels around the global literary scene, the question of a writerly identity has never seemed more precarious, conflicted, and urgent than with writers from Africa. More often…

  • PEN 2013: Critical Cold Wars

    May 3, 2013 Shaun Randol
    "We have a Cold War on the Russian soul," said Mikhail Shishkin. Lines are drawn, barricades are up. On one side are the nationalists and isolationists who proclaim Russia…

  • PEN 2013: Bravery and Atrocity

    April 30, 2013 Shaun Randol
    Bravery comes in many forms. As Salman Rushdie said to me in an interview, and confirmed at the opening night of PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, the artist stan…