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International PEN's Free the Word! Festival

The second annual Free the Word! festival has been a great success, due in no small part to the work of Sarah Sanders, Caroline McCormick, Sharmilla Beezmohun, and everyone else from International PEN who helped organize and run these events. I was able to attend three of the discussions, all of which took place in the ...

Free the Word!

The British equivalent to the PEN World Voices Festival, the Free the Word! festival kicks off on Thursday night with a discussion on the main stage of Shakespeare’s Globe featuring Nadine Gordimer, Tariq Ali, Samir El-youssef and Tahmima Anam. Put on by International PEN, the festival runs through Sunday and ...

PEN International's Free the Word! Festival

Back in December, we mentioned the celebration of world literature that PEN International was putting together to take place just prior to the London Book Fair. At that time, there weren’t many details, but now, they have a name—“Free the Word!”—and an impressive schedule of events. Running ...