December 2012

Un minut pentru Mohad Al-Ajani

Va transmit mai jos un mesaj primit pe Facebook despre poetul din Qatar Mohamed Al-Ajami condamnat la inchisoare pe viata pentru poemele sale impotriva regimului princiar din tara, dupa cum puteti citi mai jos in franceza. Puteti sa trimiteti un mic mesaj de sustinere pentru Mohamed Al-Ajani, in franceza sau engleza, la adresa nelly.georgepicot@biennaledespoetes.fr de la Biennale internationale des poetes en Val-de-Marne, Franta.

Cred ca trebuie sa fim alaturi de acest mare poet curajos, care onoreaza toata breasla poetilor. Daca un asemenea poet

January letter from John Ralston Saul,International President, to the PEN membership

15 February, 2013

Dear PEN members, Dear friends,

As you know, PEN now has a partnership with the Hay Festival network. This means our Free the Word! program fits into already existing festivals. And so through literature we are able to get across our messages about free speech, debate, translation, endangered languages, digital standards and so on! This partnership began in October in Xalapa in Veracruz State, Mexico – a difficult place where writers have been dying. The Free the Word! events at the Xalapa Hay Festival involved Peter Godwin, the President of the PEN American

December letter from John Ralston Saul, International President, to the PEN membership

15 January, 2012

Dear PEN members, Dear friends,
As many of you know, the entire Board of Directors of PEN Turkey is now under investigation for having insulted the Turkish Republic, as laid out in Article 301. Of course, there are already some 70 writers in prison in Turkey and many others caught up in the tentacles of the often unfair legal system. The vast majority of them are Kurds or those who have written in support of Kurds. And then I look at the events in Iran, Syria and China – to name only three. There have been no lack of indignities visited on free expression around the world over the last month.

PEN ROMÂNIA – O scurtă istorie

English PEN România este o organizație non-guvernamentală a scriitorilor, editorilor și traducătorilor, reprezentând filiala românească a PEN International, cea mai veche și mai mare asociație din lume a scriitorilor. Încă de la crearea ei în 1921 la Londra, PEN International a urmărit să solidarizeze scriitorii umaniști în