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The fourth annual PEN World Voices: The New York Festival of International Literature will take place 29th April to 4th May 2008. This year’s theme of Public Lives/Private Lives could hardly be more timely. How do we draw a line between our private and public selves? When must we tell private stories for the public [...]
The Age reports on Man Booker winner, Anne Enright’s remarks before leaving for a trip to mainland China. The Irish author was in Hong Kong for the Man International Literary Festival and planned to fly to Shanghai afterwards.
When asked to comment on China’s curbs on the freedom of expression, from banning books to jailing writers, [...]
I was at the National Railway Museum yesterday to formally launch the opening of the York Literature Festival.
The festival runs from the 1st to the 15th March. Although not on the scale of Cheltenham or Edinburgh, there is a varied programme on offer, mainly involving local writers and readers, of whom there are many. Among [...]
On Thursday October 25, English PEN is hosting an evening event, Freedom Writ Large, to pay tribute to Aung San Suu Kyi and other Burmese writers. Melissa Benn will be chairing a panel of expert speakers and readers including John Pilger, Benedict Rogers, Zoya Phan, Justin Wintle, Maureen Lipman and Pascal Khoo Thwe. To book [...]
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