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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 as well as the 10th and 11th issues of PEN America, our award-winning literary journal. 2009 was not all celebrations. The world witnessed the brutal murder of Natalia Estimerova; the arrest, trial, and sentencing of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo; the crackdown on opposition parties in Iran; and the continuation of questionable detention and rendition policies initiated under the Bush Administration. The year-end Feature showcases just a few of our events, publications, and advocacy campaigns.
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Edwidge Danticat reads “Tourist” and “Boat People” by Felix Morisseau-Leroy (audio)
Neil Gaiman on life and work (video)
Michael Ondaatje reads from Anil's Ghost (video)
Nawal El Saadawi discusses censorship and misinformation (video)
Sergio Ramirez reads in Spanish from A Thousand Deaths Plus One (video)
Richard Ford & Nam Le in conversation (audio)
Iran: A Conversation About the Elections, Protest, and the Future (video)
Jonathan Ames reads FBI e-mails (video)
Amrit Singh, Matthew Alexander, and Susanna Moore read from a Combatant Status Review Tribunal transcript (video)
Paul Auster reads poems by Liu Xiaobo (audio)
Salman Rushdie reads “Wild Garlic Gatherers” by Natalia Estemirova (video)
Eric Bogosian reads an excerpt from “LIVE! From Texas Death Row!” (video)
Mary Gaitskill reads a diary entry of a writer in prison (video)
Jamal Joseph & Lemon Andersen discuss writing in prison with Jackson Taylor (video)
Juan Felipe Herrera reads from Half of the World in Light (video)
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