Fwd: PEN News: March 2006

Sun Apr 2 02:17:35 UTC 2006

Dear SEELANGovtsy,
Boris Akunin will be participating in the Pen World
Voices Festival of International Literature, more
information about which is available here:

http://pen.org/page.php/prmID/1096

--- info at pen.org wrote:

> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:00:37 -0500 (EST)
> To: lino59 at ameritech.net
> Subject: PEN News: March 2006
> From: info at pen.org
> 

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PEN American Center

PEN MEMBERS

Be sure to purchase your tickets for World Voices
soon! >>More 

  Interested in volunteering for the Festival?
>>Please contact us.

COMING SOON... 

PEN America 7: World Voices

The latest edition of the PEN literary journal will be
released in just a couple of weeks. This exciting new
issue features Salman Rushdie, Svetlana Alexievich,
Michael Ondaatje, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Zakes Mda, and
the many others who  participated in the inaugural
year of the PEN World Voices Festival. >>Pre-order
now!  

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NEWS FROM PEN

2006 PEN World Voices: The New York Festival of
International Literature 
  We are pleased to announce  this year's World Voices
Festival, featuring 137 writers from 41 countries in
58 events this April in New York City. Tickets are on
sale now! >>More 

Ron Chernow succeeds Salman Rushdie as president of
PEN American Center
  At the March 23rd annual meeting, Ron Chernow, the
best-selling biographer of J. P. Morgan, John D.
Rockefeller, and Alexander Hamilton, was elected as
PEN's next president. >> Read the article in The New
York Times.  

  PEN Prison Writing Program publishes new edition of
The Handbook for Writers in Prison
  The newly updated Handbook features    detailed
guides on the art of writing fiction, nonfiction,
poetry, and screenplays and  is an invaluable resource
to any incarcerated writer. >>More 

ANNOUNCING THE 2006 FREEDOM TO WRITE AWARDS

   PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Awards
  This week, PEN named Mohammed Benchicou, an Algerian
newspaper publisher already in prison and facing 50
additional sentences for his newspapers independent
reporting, and Rakhim Esenov, a novelist, historian,
and radio correspondent whose works are banned and who
has been barred from traveling outside of
Turkmenistan, as recipients of its 2006 PEN/Barbara
Goldsmith Freedom to Write Awards. >>More

PEN/Newman’s Own First Amendment Award
PEN also  named Sibel Edmonds, a translator who was
fired from her job at the FBI after complaining of
intelligence failures and poor performance in her
unit, as the recipient of this year’s
prestigious PEN/Newman’s Own First Amendment
Award. >>More 

Jeri Laber International Freedom to Publish Award 
Egyptian publisher Mohamed Hashem, whose commitment to
publishing worksof critical thinking has brought him
into conflict with civil andreligious authorities, has
been named by the Association of
AmericanPublishers’ International Freedom to
Publish (IFTP) Committee to receive this year’s
Jeri Laber Award. >>More

INTERNATIONAL NEWS 

"A Case Minder Enters a Bizarre World"
PEN Member Lucy Kavaler writes about her experiences
as a case minder for several of PEN's Honorary
Members. >>More

Dissident journalist Akbar Ganji released
Akbar Ganji, now aged 46, was arrested in April 2000
with 17 other Iranian journalists and intellectuals
who had taken part in a cultural conference in Berlin.
 International PEN's Writers in Prison Committee
welcomes the news that  Akbar Ganji was freed on March
17. >>More

Vice-president of PEN Belarus released after a 10-day
sentence 
Andrej Dynko was arrested with hundreds of other
protesters in the days surrounding the March 19th
presidential election in Belarus. PEN continues to
call for the release of others who remain detained
andfor an end to the attacks on those whose only act
has been to practicetheir rights to freedom of
expression and association. >>More

PEN Marks International Women's Day with a focus on
Lydia Chaco
  Mexican writer and journalist Lydia Cacho currently
faces trial under charges of criminal defamation
related to her exposure of the connection between
businessman José Camel Nacif Borge and alleged
child pornographer Jean Succar Kari in the book Los
Demonios del Edén. >>More 

  International PEN Writers in Prison Committee meets
in Istanbul  
  This March, the sixth  annual Writers in Prison
Committee conference of International PEN gathered in
Istanbul to plan the launch of a campaign against
insult and criminal defamation laws under which
writers and journalists are imprisoned worldwide,
including Article 301 in Turkey. >>More															

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