PEN News: March 2006

[Olga Sergeyevna Eremina]

Len, eto dlia tebia - vdrug tebe interesno 

Olya 

Deborah Hoffman writes: 

> 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 
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> --- info at pen.org wrote: 
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>> 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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> Be sure to purchase your tickets for World Voices
> soon! >>More 
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> COMING SOON...  
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> PEN America 7: World Voices 
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> 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 
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> 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 newspaper’s 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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