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Letter to Irish PEN members from Ilhan Sami Çomak, translated by Paula Darwish.
Day of the Imprisoned Writer: Ilhan Sami Çomak
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).
Ilhan Sami Çomak to be the first Honorary Member of Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann
Ronan Lee’s book on Rohingya Genocide banned in Myanmar
Dialogues on War
Nedim Turfent write back to Ai Weiwei
Belarus
Myanmar
IWC Evolution Programme 2021
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
LAUNCH
LAUNCH of the new Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann – 15th November 2020
“Under Fire: Journalists in South America”
November 2020 Newsletter
Eavan Boland 1944-2020
FREE THE WORD
Ceremony to celebrate retirement of J. Anthony Gaughan from PEN committee – August 2020
Irish PEN/Freedom to Write Merger
PEN Norway Event concerning the Iranian writer Narges Mohammadi
PEN Friends letter-writing event
VARAVARA RAO EVENT, 29th September 2021
Wales PEN Cymru event
Winter Solstice party 21st December 2021
PEN America EVENT: Cracking Down on Creative Voices: Turkey’s Silencing of Writers, Intellectuals and Artists Five Years After the Failed Coup
Campaigns
Paola Ugaz and the judicial harassment of journalists in Peru
Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace, winner of the 2022 PEN Pinter Prize for an International Writer of Courage
GEZI PARK EXPLAINER: Link to a podcast from The Guardian newspaper
PEN TURKEY PROTESTS THE GEZI VERDICT – (Osman Kavala & Co-Defendants)
Irish PEN featured writer Paola Ugaz (Peru) at risk (20/01/22)
Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme
Poetry Jukebox Curation “The Revolution is in the Heart”
Kurdish PEN member, writer and poet Meral Şimşek
PENWrites: Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace (Bahrain)
JOINT STATEMENT: FREEDOM FOR VARAVARA RAO
Events
PENWrites: Amanuel Asrat & PEN Belarus
PEN Afghanistan PEN for Peace
Gulmira Imin Statement
Summary of Irish PEN Campaigns and Statements, April-June 2021
PENWrites (English PEN)
PEN Writes (Centenary Campaign, English PEN)
Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann statement on the Margaret Keane gravestone Appeal #MessagetoMargaret
Ukraine
From Words to Bullets: Ukrainian Writers and Journalists on the Russo-Ukrainian War
Victoria Amelina in the Dublin Review of Books
Pen Ukraine
SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE
“The Russian War on Ukraine Has Always Been a War on Its Language” by Askold Melnyczuk, via LitHub
Writing from Ukraine
Victoria Amelina essay in today’s Irish Times online
“Record of war”
Books for Ukraine
International Writers in solidarity with UKRAINE
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