IndieAuthors.Social NewsMar 20

Whose Stories Shape Tomorrow? Introducing the Young Voices Network

At the London Book Fair, Ege Dündar, Turkish author-activist and youngest PEN International board member in the organization's history, delivered the below speech to highlight the important role of young people around the world to work together against shared challenges.
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Whose Stories Shape Tomorrow? Introducing the Young Voices Network - Publishing Perspectives

At the London Book Fair, Ege Dündar, Turkish author-activist and youngest PEN International board member in the organization's history, delivered the below speech to highlight the important role of young people around the world to work together against shared challenges.

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CheshireFeb 27
Burhan Sönmez: from brutal assault to a life in literature | Psyche Portraits
https://psyche.co/portraits/burhan-sonmez-from-brutal-assault-to-a-life-in-literature
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The Electronic IntifadaJan 24

Funding for PEN Pinter Prize is irredeemably tainted

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://electronicintifada.net/content/funding-pen-pinter-prize-irredeemably-tainted/51189

IndieAuthors.Social NewsOct 17

PEN International’s Ege Dündar: ‘We Must Look to the Youth’ 

The youngest PEN International board member, Turkish-born Ege Dündar is an author-activist leading a new context for young citizens’ place in a troubled world. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘This…
https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/10/pen-internationals-ege-dundar-we-must-look-to-the-youth/

#EgeDundar #FrankfurtBookFair #InternationalPubishersAssociation #PENInternational

Antifafi 🖤 🍉🌻✊🏿🔻🌈🌍Sep 19, 2025

"With these resolutions, PEN International and its writers commit to continue using words as acts of conscience, to inspire and take action, and to safeguard the dignity of all living things.” - Burhan Sonmez, President @PENInternational
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https://www.pen-international.org/news/pen-internationals-resolutions-2025

#PENInternational #Writers #Resolutions
#Democracy #ClimateJustice #GenderDiversity #FreeExpression

PEN International’s resolutions to defend free expression, gender diversity, human rights, and climate justice  — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide

“At this 91st Congress we affirmed that freedom of expression cannot be atomized —whether in defending peace against authoritarianism, protecting our planet, standing with trans and gender-diverse people, or confronting censorship in the United States and beyond. With these resolutions, PEN Internat

PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide
Lesering.deDec 20, 2024
Ostdeutsche Autoren gründen „PEN-Gruppe Leipzig“ https://www.lesering.de/id/4936733/Ostdeutsche-Autoren-gruenden-PEN-Gruppe-Leipzig/ #Öffentlich-rechtlicherRundfunk #SozialeNotlageältererAutoren #OstdeutscheLiteraturszene #InternationalerAustausch #RegionaleRepräsentation #PEN-ZentrumDeutschland #Schriftstellerverbände #Bildungseinrichtungen #LiterarischeFreiheit #Literaturförderung #Meinungsfreiheit #PENInternational #KathrinAehnlich #BenediktDyrlich #GRUPPELEIPZIG #Buchmarkt #Buchmarkt
Ostdeutsche Autoren gründen „PEN-Gruppe Leipzig“ - Buchmarkt - Lesering.de

Die Gründung der „Gruppe Leipzig“ innerhalb des PEN-Zentrums Deutschland markiert einen bedeutenden Schritt zur Stärkung der ostdeutschen Literaturszene. Am 7. Dezember 2024 versammelten sich 21 Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller aus Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Thüringen, Brandenburg und Berlin im „Haus der Selbstständigen“ in Leipzig, um diese neue regionale Gruppierung offiziell ins Leben zu rufen. Ziel ist es, die Interessen ostdeutscher Autoren sichtbarer zu machen, die Literaturförderung ...

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Maybe PEN has something to say?

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#penamerica #peninternational

PEN America - The Freedom to Write

PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United States and worldwide.

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Killer Rabbit 90Mar 30, 2024
PEN America in Damage-Control Mode Amid Revolt From Staff and Palestinian Writers https://theintercept.com/2024/03/30/pen-america-festival-boycott-israel-palestine/ #PENAmerica #PENInternational #Gaza #FreeSpeech #CeasefireNow #genocide #IsraeliWarCrimes
PEN America in Damage-Control Mode Amid Revolt From Staff and Palestinian Writers

“We’re not going to clean up your mess,” said analyst Rula Jebreal about PEN America’s recent outreach to prominent Palestinian voices.

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Of Bookish ThingsOct 14, 2023

India: Authorities pursue charges against writer Arundhati Roy over 2010 speech

‘The sudden and unjust decision to pursue new charges against Arundhati Roy over a speech given in 2010 is a blatant attempt at intimidation and yet another example of how India’s legal system is being weaponised against critical voices. We call for an immediate halt to the legal proceedings and for an end to the weaponisation of India’s legal system’, said Ma Thida, Chair of PEN International’s #WritersInPrison Committee.

#ArundhatiRoy #India #IndiaGovernment #Authoritarianism #FreeSpeech #PENInternational

https://www.pen-international.org/news/india-government-pursues-charges-against-writer-arundhati-roy-over-2010-speech

India: Authorities pursue charges against writer Arundhati Roy over 2010 speech — PEN International

12 October 2023: PEN International is deeply concerned by reports that the Indian authorities have approved the prosecution of writer Arundhati Roy over a speech she gave 13 years ago. We call on the Indian authorities to immediately cease the legal proceedings against her and to end its weaponisati

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anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖May 22, 2023

#PENInternational, the literary and free expression organisation, has released a letter signed by 103 Nobel Laureates, expressing solidarity with writer, human rights defender, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and PEN member #AlesBialiatski, and condemning the Belarusian authorities’ brutal, relentless, and systematic crackdown on independent voices. Today is the International Day of Solidarity with Prisoners of Conscience in #Belarus. The letter was featured in the #Guardian.

https://www.pen-international.org/news/nobel-laureates-join-in-support-of-nobel-prize-winner-ales-bialiatski?mc_cid=61f62e0b45&mc_eid=cfe9de2322

Over 100 Nobel Laureates join PEN International in support of Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski — Pen International

21 May: PEN International, the literary and free expression organisation, has released a letter signed by 103 Nobel Laureates, expressing solidarity with writer, human rights defender, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and PEN member Ales Bialiatski, and condemning the Belarusian authorities’ brutal, relent

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