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Inaugural winners announced for PEN Presents x International Booker Prize - News & Events - English PEN

We’re thrilled to announce the winning titles for the inaugural round of #PENPresents x International Booker Prize, an edition of the English PEN award for sample translations, launched with the @thebookerprizes.com to support translators from the Global Majority.
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Winners announced for inaugural PEN Presents x International Booker Prize programme | The Booker Prizes The scheme supports translators from the Global Majority, and the six winning projects represent five languages and regions

The winners have been announced for the inaugural @englishpen.bsky.social Presents x International Booker Prize programme, and the six winning projects represent five languages and regions.

Discover the winning translators ⤵️
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We’re thrilled that #PENPresents & #PENTranslates award-winner Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, trans. from the Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi has won the #InternationalBooker2025, the first work translated from Kannada to appear on the @thebookerprizes.bsky.social shortlist. Congratulations to the winners!

📚 Meet Palestinian author Karim Kattan & @willforrester.bsky.social from @englishpen.bsky.social, who will dive into The Palace on the Higher Hill — a story of exile, homecoming & political ghosts

8 May @frenchinstituteuk.bsky.social
🎟️ www.institut-francais.org.uk/events-agend...

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PEN Presents x International Booker Prize shortlist announced - News & Events - English PEN

In partnership with @thebookerprizes.bsky.social, we’re thrilled to announce the shortlisted translators for the inaugural round of #PENPresents x International Booker Prize, launched to support translators from the Global Majority.

Discover the shortlist ⤵️
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PEN Presents x International Booker Prize shortlist announced - News & Events - English PEN

So pleased to share the shortlist for #PENPresents x International Booker Prize – 12 exceptional projects by translators from the Global Majority. 9 languages, 9 regions; firsts from Malay, Filipino and Cebuano.

@thebookerprizes.bsky.social @englishpen.bsky.social
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🚨 Publishers & translators 🚨

We’ve opened for #PENTranslates, #PENPresents and grant assessor applications – all closing 31 May.

Forms & details on our website. Please apply & spread the word!

Judges announced for the PEN Heaney Prize 2025 - English PEN

We're delighted to announce that submissions are now open for the PEN Heaney Prize 2025, in partnership with @irishpen.bsky.social and the Estate of Seamus Heaney, and that this year's judges are Sasha Dugdale, Seán Hewitt and Zaffar Kunial.

Find out more ⤵️
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I Don’t Want to Traumatise Children, but I Do Want to Be Truthful: A Conversation with Jacqueline Wilson. Jacqueline Wilson on letters, empathy, book bans.

'I think I just am a writer, and I have to carry on writing while words make sense.'

This week in #PENTransmissions: Jacqueline Wilson on letters, empathy and book bans.

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We're thrilled to partner with @unionchapeluk.bsky.social for an evening with Mahmoud Muna, in conversation with @oliviasnaije.bsky.social. Any profits will go to the Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem.

Join us on Wednesday 12 March at 7.30pm ⤵️
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Thrilled that 3 #PENTranslates titles – Reservoir Bitches, Small Boat, and Heart Lamp, also a #PENPresents winner – feature on the #InternationalBooker2025 longlist. Congrats Scribe, @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social, @andotherstories.bsky.social, Dahlia, Julia, Heather, Vincent, Helen, Banu, Deepa, all!

English PEN Literary Salon at LBF 2025 - English PEN

The English PEN Literary Salon returns to the London Book Fair on Wednesday 12 March 2025 for six panel discussions on the intersections of literature, equity, and freedom of expression. #LBF25

Browse this year’s programme ⤵️
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