PEN Canada envisions a world where
writers are free to write,
readers are free to read,
and freedom of expression prevails
PEN Canada envisions a world where
writers are free to write,
readers are free to read,
and freedom of expression prevails
PEN is looking for an enthusiastic and hardworking individual to work with our National Affairs Committee for a 4-month full-time, paid position beginning in May.
On May 22, Anthropologist Wade Davis and author John Vaillant will consider the ethics of storytelling, reportage and bearing witness in the twenty-first century.
PEN Canada protests the withdrawal by the publisher Penguin of Wendy Doniger’s The Hindus: An Alternative History, the third book to be withdrawn this year.
In this piece, which originally appeared in the Summer 1996 newsletter, Karen Connelly visited Aung San Suu Kyi at her home to discuss the wellbeing of two Burmese writers.
Finding the Words: Writers on Inspiration, Desire, War, Celebrity, Exile, and Breaking the Rules