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Same Message, Different Medium

This year, PEN International is celebrating the rights of all citizens on Press Freedom Day. As always, we champion the rights of media organizations and journalists to safe, uncensored reporting and publication and pay tribute to those who have been killed and disappeared. But we celebrate especially the rights of all citizens to untrammelled access to information and truth…

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literary events

On Sale – PEN’s spring Ideas in Dialogue event

Legendary New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin and comedian, actor and author Seán Cullen discuss comedy, satire, and the legacy of Canada’s great novelist and provocateur.

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campaigns

José Armando Rodriguez Carreón

José Armando Rodriguez Carreón was a veteran crime reporter for El Diario, a daily newspaper based in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua state. On the morning of November 13, 2008, José was shot at least eight times by an unidentified person as he was about to drive his daughter to school.

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member spotlight

Member Spotlight – Yann Martel

‘I can only be a writer if I can write freely, so in defending the right of writers to free expression, I am defending my own future … If you start hemming in free speech, you start hemming in free thinking. And that spells not only the end of democracy, but the end of the [...]

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You Wait for Me with Dust

March 20, 2012 - PEN International Writers in Prison Chair, Marian Botsford Fraser and Honorary PEN Canada member, Jiang Weiping join over 200 people, groups and organizations in 165 cities in 41 countries in honoring Nobel Peace prize laureate, Liu Xiaobo by reading from his work.



Worldwide Reading for Liu Xiaobo – March 20, 2012

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