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2009 EVENTS

Below are events from 2009. Visit the multimedia archive for recordings and photos.

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PUBLIC PROGRAMS: 2009

Writers Rally for Liu Xiaobo
December 31, 2009

With E.L. Doctorow, Don DeLillo, A.M. Homes, Edward Albee, Honor Moore, Victoria Redel, and Anthony Appiah


Who Will Speak for the Child? Human Rights at Home and the Convention on the Rights of the Child
December 7, 2009

With Nadine Strossen, Laura W. Murphy, Walter Dean Myers, Jonathan Todres, Deborah Ellis, and Uzodinma Iweala


Human Rights Book Fair
December 3, 2009 | Fordham Law School | NYC

With Huang Xiang, Karen Swenson, Vivian Demuth, Minda Aloff, Anna Kushner, Robert Bernstein, David Auburn, Maureen Howard, Michael Scammel, Ian McMahan, Daniel Meltzer, Denise Chong, Louis Nevaer, Catherine Porter, Sharon Olinka, Harry Wu, Ian Buruma, Meena Alexander, Katie Fishman, Larry Siems, Minky Worden, Tenzin Dorjee, and Huang Wen


Crossing Over: The 2009 PEN Beyond Margins Celebration
December 2, 2009 

With Uwem Akpan, Juan Felipe Herrera, Lily Hoang, and Brendan Curry; hosted by Jane Ciabattari


Javier Marías & Paul Auster: A Reading
November 30, 2009 | 92Y | NYC

With Javier Marías & Paul Auster; introduction by Rick Moody and Wyatt Mason 


Miami Book Fair: Freedom to Write
November 14, 2009

With Francine Prose, Mary Gordon, Ana Menendez, Michael Thomas, and Sam Tanenhaus


A Tribute to Marie Ponsot
November 12, 2009 

With Rosemary Deen, Jean Gallagher, Deborah Garrison,  Richard Howard, Phillip Lopate, Alice Quinn, Sapphire, L.B. Thompson, and Jackson Taylor


Breakout: Voices from Inside
Monday, November 9, 2009 | WNYC Greene Space | NYC

With Mary Gaitskill, Eric Bogosian, Patricia Smith, Marie Ponsot, Jamal Joseph, Lemon Andersen, and Dawud Gonzalez


Bearing Witness in Chechnya: The Legacy of Natalia Estemirova
October 29 , 2009

With Salman Rushdie, Michael Arena, Keith Gessen, Tanya Lokshina, Elena Milashina, and Zarema Mukusheva


PEN America 11 Launch Party
October 26, 2009

With Paul Auster, Roxana Robinson, and more


Reckoning with Torture: Memos and Testimonies from the “War on Terror”
October 13, 2009

With Matthew Alexander, Jonathan Ames, K. Anthony Appiah,  Paul Auster, Ishmael Beah, David Cole, Don DeLillo, Eve Ensler, Nell Freudenberger, Jenny Holzer, A.M. Homes, Jameel Jaffer, Susanna Moore, Jack Rice, George Saunders, Amrit Singh, and Art Spiegelman


New Members/New Books Party October 5, 2009

 


Annual Reading and Reception of PEN Women's Literary Workshop
September 29, 2009


Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia
September 13, 2009 

With Dale Peck, Francine Prose, Anya Ulinich, Vadim Yarmolinets, Emily Gould, and Dmitry Danilov


Iran: A Conversation About the Elections, Protest, and the Future
July 15, 2009

With Shaul Bakhash, Roger Cohen, Haleh Esfandiari, and Karim Sadjadpour

WORLD VOICES
The Fifth Annual


6 days. 160 writers.
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