Kup bilet - Uroczysta inauguracja | Opening Ceremony | KBF: BILETY | Wydarzenia w Krakowie Słowo od MARGARET ATWOOD (online) | Address from MARGARET ATWOOD (online)MEMORY, MIGRATION AND MYTH IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION

EVENT: PEN International and Polish PEN open the 91st Congress in Kraków with Nobel Laureate Olga Tokarczuk and PEN President Burhan Sonmez.

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📍 Kino Kijów, Kraków
🗓 Tuesday 2 September
🕠 17:30–19:00 CEST

At the African Book Fair in Nairobi, writers and advocates came together to celebrate literary freedom.

Thank you to Soma Nami Books for hosting Nduko o’Matigere, Natasha Omokhodion, and Dr. Njuki Githethwa for a vital panel discussion on censorship and expression.

Kup bilet - PEN w czasach niepokoju | PEN In The Age Of Anxiety | KBF: BILETY | Wydarzenia w Krakowie PEN IN THE AGE OF ANXIETY / PEN W CZASACH NIEPOKOJUNatasha Lomouri, Adam Michnik, Wołodymyr JermołenkoChair / prowadzenie: Agnieszka Lichnerowicz

Can literature survive repression? Join us to explore this question at our public event: PEN in the Age of Anxiety, part of PEN International’s 91st Annual Congress.

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🗓 3 SEP | 20:00 CEST
📍 International Cultural Centre, Kraków

#PENCongress25

#Belarus: Writer & journalist Andrzej Poczobut is serving 8 years on fabricated charges. Since 2021 he’s faced solitary confinement & denial of medication.

PEN International calls for his immediate release.

#EmptyChair #FreePoczobut #Congress25

#Algeria: Slam poet Mohamed Tadjadit, “The Poet of the Hirak,” was sentenced to 5 years in Jan 2025—just 4 days after arrest—for online criticism of the govt.

He now faces further charges in October. PEN International calls for his release.

#EmptyChair #FreedomofWords #WordsoftheFree #Congress25

#Venezuela: Journalist Rory Branker was disappeared in Caracas (Feb 2025) after reporting for La Patilla.

Accused without due process of “spreading false info,” his whereabouts remain unknown.

PEN International calls for his release.

#EmptyChair #FreeBranker #FreedomofWords #Congress25

#Ukraine: Citizen journalist & HRD Iryna Danylovych was abducted in Crimea in 2022 & sentenced to 7 years on fabricated charges. She’s faced torture & denied medical care, causing permanent hearing loss.

PEN International calls for her immediate release.

#EmptyChair #Congress25

LIVE: At PEN International’s 91st Congress, President Burhan Sonmez reflects: the 20th century brought unbearable pains, and yet a quarter into the 21st, bombs, poverty and oppression still echo across continents.

LIVE: Burhan Sonmez, International President, speaks from the PEN International 91st Annual Congress on the origins of the word freedom.

This year’s Congress is a gathering of hope uniting writers and advocates of freedom of expression worldwide.

We're attending the opening of
@peninternational.bsky.social 91st congress in #Krakow.
Excellent hosting by tireless friends at Polish PEN Club.
Inspiring words by Margaret Atwood, and with PEN International President Burhan Sönmez and Nobel Laureate Olga Tokarczuk.
Love, peace, and solidarity. ❤️🕊✊️

LIVE: Burhan Sonmez, International President, speaks from the PEN International 91st Annual Congress on the origins of the word freedom.

This year’s Congress is a gathering of hope uniting writers and advocates of freedom of expression worldwide.

LIVE: Memory, Migration and Myth in Contemporary Fiction
Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk joins the PEN International President to reflect on the power of writing to courageously confront authority and wield the pen as a sword.

Kup bilet - Wolne słowo w wolnej Europie Wschodniej | Free Word In Free Eastern Europe | KBF: BILETY | Wydarzenia w Krakowie WOLNE SŁOWO W WOLNEJ EUROPIE WSCHODNIEJTaciana Niadbaj, Andrij Kurkov, Kristina Sabaliauskaitėprowadzenie/chair: Adam Szostkiewicz

We regret to announce that Andrey Kurkov will not be able to attend this event. He will be replaced by Marek Radziwon, President of Polish PEN Club and Consul General in Lviv, and Pavlo Bylik, Ukrainian poet.

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#PENCongress25 #FreedomOfWords #WordsOfTheFree

Today, PEN International President Burhan Sonmez reaffirmed our association’s commitment to writers everywhere.

Built on the defence of free expression, PEN International continues to stand firm against threats that silence voices around the world.

In his address to the assembly today, Burhan Sonmez also called for peace and an end to the suffering of civilians, reminding our Centres that the mission of PEN is rooted in solidarity across borders.

At our 91st Congress, we mark 100 years of the Polish PEN Club, founded in 1925 with Stefan Żeromski as its first president.

Today in Krakow, we celebrate this legacy with the Polish Centenary Exhibition, part of PEN’s global story.

On our final day at Congress, we came together for powerful conversations on the freedom to publish, cultural erasure, and centering Indigenous literature and culture in global conversations. Thank you to all who shared their voices.

Stay tuned for photos and videos in the coming weeks.

🎉 Congratulations! Delegates at PEN’s 91st Congress voted with overwhelming support to welcome new Centres:

🟥 PEN Languages of Russia
🟥 PEN Syria
🟥 The Low German & Frisian PEN
🟥 PEN Spain

We look forward to their contributions as they bring their voices into our global network!

We’re thrilled to welcome Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature, as Vice President of PEN International, our network’s secretariat. Congratulations!

We're honored to have joined PEN colleagues from around the world for powerful conversations. As #Congress25 comes to a close, we are grateful to PEN International and Polish PEN for bringing together writers to discuss literature, free expression, and solidarity.

YouTube video by PEN Chile Poesía en Libertad

Muy agradecido por esta bella invitación. Un honor para mí el haber participado. Comparto el video de lo que fuera este reciente encuentro organizado por #PENChile, #PENParaguay, #PENArgentina y #PENUruguay
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Across sub-Saharan Africa, freedom of expression is under attack. From Sudan to Eswatini, voices are jailed, silenced, or forced into exile.

PEN International stands with them, but we can’t do it alone.

Help us take Persecution to Protection: www.justgiving.com/campaign/sum...

Totalmente recomendada.

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El Podcast del Poeta / Capítulo 28 El Podcast del Poeta · Episode

Muy agradecido por esta bella invitación de Pablo Soto a conversar en su #PodcastDelPoeta, les comparto lo que fue en el link a continuación.
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EU: Open letter on the assault of human rights in Türkiye   — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide 16 May 2025: The jailing by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government of a key political opponent is a blatant repudiation of the rights to political association and participation, 58 rights, media,...

#EU: We join Human Rights Watch, Amnesty and partners in urging the #EU to issue an effective and bold response to the Erdoğan government’s major blow to the rule of law and human rights in #Türkiye.

Read our statement: www.pen-international.org/news/eu-open...

Chine : des organisations de défense de la liberté de presse condamnent la détention arbitraire depuis 2020 de la journaliste Zhang Zhan – 14 mai 2025 De multiples organisations de défense de la liberté de la presse et des droits de l’homme condamnent « fermement la détention arbitraire du journaliste, défenseure des dro…

Chine : des organisations de défense de la liberté de presse condamnent la détention arbitraire depuis 2020 de la journaliste Zhang Zhan penquebec.org/2025/06/07/c...

Egypt: PEN International urges Egyptian authorities to release arbitrarily imprisoned writers   — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide “The Egyptian government should use the occasion of Eid al-Adha to end the ongoing ordeal faced by many Egyptian families whose loved ones remain arbitrarily detained for expressing their views. Silen...

#Egypt: We call on the Egyptian government to release all arbitrarily detained writers and end its crackdown on free expression. We are particularly concerned about the detention of Alaa Abd El-Fattah, Galal El-Behairy and Ashraf Omar. www.pen-international.org/news/pen-int... @penmena.bsky.social

Last week, we’ve issued a new statement on Gaza, condemning the ongoing genocide and calling for an #armsembargonow. Find out more ➡️ www.pen-international.org/news/optisra... @penmena.bsky.social

Ayi Renaud Dossavi, Acting Chair of PEN International’s new Young Writers Committee, shares what this milestone means for young writers, creatives, and activists around the world.

More voices shaping this new chapter to come — stay tuned.

Along with a rise in book bans, we've seen an increase in the harassment of authors, particularly targeting YA and children’s book authors, authors of color, and LGBTQ+ authors, as well as the bookstores that carry their books. Some steps to take to enhance safety at events: pen.org/as-threats-a...