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YEAR IN REVIEW

2009 was a year of both celebration and loss. As an organization, PEN was awarded the NBCC Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award; we celebrated the fifth anniversary of the PEN World Voices Festival … >> More

Freedom to Write Lecture
by Nadal El Saadawi

Buried Child
by Sam Shepard

Knockemstiff
by Donald Ray Pollock

Iran: A Conversation about the Elections, Protest, and the Future

No Light Escapes
by Joseph Jeffrey Burgeson

FBI E-mails
read by Jonathan Ames

Clover: “On Being Lucky, Or Not”
by Chloe S.

Poems
by Liu Xiaobo
read by Edward Albee, Don DeLillo, and E.L. Doctorow




>> More from the 2009 Year in Review


MEMBERS RALLY FOR LIU XIAOBO



New Year's Eve: E.L. Doctorow, Don DeLillo, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Edward Albee, A.M. Homes, Honor Moore, and other PEN Members gathered on the steps of the New York Public Library to demand the release of writer Liu Xiaobo. >> Watch the video

FEATURED MULTIMEDIA

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Crossing Over: The 2009 Beyond Margins Celebration
 
Breakout: Voices from Inside
PEN MEMBER BLOGS
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Voices Around the World
Posted by: Joanne Leedom-Ackerman
 
Why Santa Returns on Christmas Day
Posted by: Robert Flynn
 
The Next Question
Posted by: Arnon Grunberg
 
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ADVOCACY NEWS

1/14/10: Writer and PEN Officer Zhao Shiying Detained in China

1/13/10:
Tamil Journalist J. S. Tissainayagam Released on Bail


12/31/09: Members Rally on New Year’s Eve Calling for Release of Liu Xiaobo

>> Anthony Appiah Discusses Liu Xiaobo on CNN

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Write to the Chinese government

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FREEDOM TO WRITE

>> Liu Xiaobo resource page

>> Freedom of expression in China

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