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Ilhan Sami Çomak, Turkey
Day of the Imprisoned Writer: Ilhan Sami Çomak
Letter to Irish PEN members from Ilhan Sami Çomak, translated by Paula Darwish.
Ilhan Sami Çomak to be the first Honorary Member of Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann
Nedim Turfent, Turkey
Meral Şimşek, Turkey
Mahvash Sabet/English PEN
Paola Ugaz, Peru
Paola Ugaz and the judicial harassment of journalists in Peru
Irish PEN featured writer Paola Ugaz
Belarus
Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace, Bahrain
Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace, 2022 PEN Pinter Prize
PENWrites: Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace (Bahrain)
Gezi Park
GEZI PARK EXPLAINER
Osman Kavala & Co-Defendants
Afghan
Poetry Jukebox
Varavara Rao, India
Amanuel Asrat
Campaigns and Statements, April-June 2021
Galal el Behairy, Egypt
English PEN Centenary
Margaret Keane gravestone Appeal
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Events 2023
Human Rights Under Threat: The Arts Respond
Culture in a Time of War – Dublin Book Festival
The Light of Home: Ukraine and Ireland. A Celebration of Ukrainian and Irish Culture – Dublin Book Festival
FIILI – FESTIVAL OF ITALIAN AND IRISH LITERATURE IN IRELAND
Events 2022
DUBLIN BOOK FESTIVAL 2022. Screening of the Documentary WHITE TORTURE by Narges Mohammadi
Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2022
‘Nothing Bad Has Ever Happened: Stories and Poems from Ukraine’: Reading and discussion with Victoria Amelina (Ukraine).
Events 2020/21
VARAVARA RAO EVENT, 29th September 2021
Winter Solstice party 21st December 2021
PEN Afghanistan PEN for Peace
IWC Evolution Programme 2021
LAUNCH of the new Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann – 15th November 2020
LAUNCH
PEN Norway Event concerning the Iranian writer Narges Mohammadi
Wales PEN Cymru event
PEN Friends letter-writing event
PEN America EVENT: Cracking Down on Creative Voices: Turkey’s Silencing of Writers, Intellectuals and Artists Five Years After the Failed Coup
News
Forgottenness … a novel by Tanja Maljartschuk
“Culture in a Time of War” event at the RIA
Victoria Amelina wins Chytomo Special Jury prize (posthumously)
Dialogues on War
Myanmar
Ronan Lee’s book on Rohingya Genocide banned in Myanmar
Imprisoned Catalan Writers Pardoned
In Memory of Lyra McKee
Italian Honour for Board Member/Secretary Catherine Dunne
Open Call: Common Currency Writer in Residence
Edna O’Brien’s TSL Eliot Lecture (Abbey Theatre) 15/12/2020
“Under Fire: Journalists in South America”
Eavan Boland 1944-2020
FREE THE WORD
Ceremony to celebrate retirement of J. Anthony Gaughan from PEN committee – August 2020
Ukraine
Events
Courage, Justice and Resistance: Lessons from Ukraine
Letters to Free Crimea
Victoria Amelina
Statement from Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann on the death of Victoria Amelina
PEN INTERNATIONAL STATEMENT ABOUT THE MURDER OF VICTORIA AMELINA
Philippe Sands: Remembering marvellous Victoria Amelina
WRITER AND PEN UKRAINE MEMBER VICTORIA AMELINA SERIOUSLY INJURED IN RUSSIAN MISSILE STRIKE ON KRAMATORSK
Victoria Amelina in the Dublin Review of Books
Victoria Amelina essay in today’s Irish Times online
Chytomo Interviews
“The Russian War on Ukraine Has Always Been a War on Its Language” by Askold Melnyczuk, via LitHub
Chytomo: Natalya Korniyenko Interview with Victoria Amelina (undated)
From Words to Bullets: Ukrainian Writers and Journalists on the Russo-Ukrainian War
Solidarity
Pen Ukraine
SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE
Writing from Ukraine
“Record of war”
Books for Ukraine
International Writers in solidarity with UKRAINE
Emergency Resource List
Ilhan Sami Çomak
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