The Irish PEN 2012 Calendar of Events. Friday 10th February 2012: Irish PEN Award and Dinner. Eventbrite booking :  http://www.irishpendinner.eventbrite.com/ In 1998 Irish PEN set up an award to honour an Irish-born writer who has made an outstanding contribution to Irish Literature. This Award is for a significant body of work, written and produced over a number of years, [...]

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Our festival started in 1985. This will be the 28th September in 2012. It is one of the five largest events in the world of poetry, and one of the best organised. More than 100 poets from the 5 continents have participated every year since 1989. The city of Trois Rivieres in on the St Lawrence [...]

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  In Very Exciting News, we are delighted to announce that President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, will present Irish PEN’s Award to Joseph O’Connor on February 10th 2012, to mark his outstanding contribution to Irish Literature. Irish PEN’s Award dinner will be held at the Royal St George Yacht Club, Dún Laoghaire.  The Committee of Irish PEN [...]

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Report on Pen World Congress The 77th International Pen Congress was held in Belgrade on 12-18 September 2011. Over 200 delegates and other participants attended from over 60 countries. The theme of the Congress was Literature – language of the world. In a welcoming address Vida Ognjenovic, President of the Serbian Centre, noted that people [...]

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  The 90th Anniversary of International PEN occurs in 2012. This archive piece by PEN American Center sets out some of the history of International PEN. International PEN  has much to celebrate with 20,000 writers in 100 countries keeping in touch through conference, committee and widespread use of social-media. I am including as link , a monthly letter from  John Ralston Saul to [...]

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