English PEN and the Society of Authors have welcomed a new report on defamation law in Northern Ireland recommending that Northern Irish law should emulate that of England and Wales. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
English PEN has launched its first ever English PEN Modern Literature Festival which will see UK-based writers present new works in tribute to writers at risk around the world. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Little, Brown Book Group and English PEN are holding a special vigil for imprisoned blogger Raif Badawi, building on the efforts of his wife who today published a book with the publisher. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
English PEN's annual fundraising event 'Inspirations’ in 2016 is set to feature British artist Grayson Perry CBE. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-12-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
English PEN has awarded eight grants to books by international women writers, marking an “exciting first” for women authors to have shared in the prestigious grants equally with men. In what has been described as a "bumper English PEN grants season", a total of 16 grants were awarded this... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Saudi blogger and activist Raif Badawi will share the 2015 PEN Pinter Prize with British poet, journalist and literary critic James Fenton. Badawi was named the 2015 International Writer of Courage, selected by Fenton from a shortlist of international cases of concern supported by English PEN,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Monica Ali, William Boyd and Marina Lewycka among the authors recruited with aim of shifting public perspectivesMajor authors including Monica Ali, William Boyd and Marina Lewycka are lining up to contribute writing to a new crowdfunded anthology which aims to counter the anti-refugee rhetoric... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
British poet, journalist and literary critic James Fenton has been awarded the 2015 PEN Pinter Prize. The annual prize was established in 2009 by English PEN in memory of playwright Harold Pinter to recognise to a British writer of outstanding literary merit, who, in the words of Pinter’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
More than 150 writers from around the world, including Margaret Atwood, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Yann Martel, Salman Rushdie and Colm Tóibín, have condemned the murders of three secular bloggers in Bangladesh this year. The group, which also includes publishers and lawyers, has joined PEN... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jessie Childs has won the 2015 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for history for her book about religious persecution in Elizabethan England, God's Traitors (Bodley Head). She beat off competition from five other shortlisted authors to win the £2,000 annual prize, funded by former PEN member Marjorie... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jenny Uglow and Mark Bostridge are among the five authors shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History 2015. The £2,000 prize, funded from former PEN member Marjorie Hessell-Tiltman’s bequest to English PEN, celebrates the best non-fiction on a historical subject from any period up... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Artist is appealing against temporary injunction obtained by his ex-wife, who says book will be distressing for his son to readAn attempt to prevent a performing artist from publishing his memoir on the grounds that its contents would be distressing for his son to read has opened up “a new,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
English PEN is holding a weekly vigil outside the Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in London in support of activist and blogger Raif Badawi. Badawi was convicted in May 2014 for insulting Islam and founding a liberal website. He received a fine of one million riyals (£175,000) and a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
English PEN and the Howard League for Penal Reform today (11th December) delivered hundreds of books to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to send on to prisoners. Authors Francesca Simon and Miranda France joined representatives of the charities, who wore Christmas-themed clothing and offered mince... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
English PEN in partnership with Foyles has launched a new website which celebrates contemporary... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
English PEN has announced the shortlist for the 2013 PEN/Ackerley Prize for Memoir, given each... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
English PEN is to look for a new director after Jonathan Heawood announced that he will step down... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
English PEN has welcomed the government's announcement of a new visa for visiting writers and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jonathan Heawood, director of English PEN and Index on Censorship chief executive John Kampfner... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
English PEN has prepared a written submission to the Leveson inquiry, warning that if tough new... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]