Tag: Pen International
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Tsitsi Dangarembga selects Kakwenza Rukirabashaija as PEN’s International Writer of Courage 2021.
Tsitsi Dangarembga selected Kakwenza Rukirabashaija as the PEN International Writer of Courage 2021 award. The revelation was made at a ceremony at the British Library, London, UK on Monday, October 11, 2021. The PEN Pinter Prize is awarded annually to a writer from Britain, the Republic of Ireland or the Commonwealth who, in the words…
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PEN Nigeria endorses Ben Okri’s PEN International presidential bid.
PEN Nigeria has endorsed Ben Okri’s bid to be president of PEN International at the elections in September this year. PEN International is a worldwide association of writers to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere founded in London, UK in 1921. Every year the organisation, with autonomous International PEN centers in over 100…
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Stella Nyanzi wins Oxfam Novib/PEN International Award 2020.
Stella Nyanzi was announced the winner of the Oxfam Novib/PEN International Award 2020 on January 16, 2020. PEN International’s Writers in Prison Committee, the PEN Emergency Fund and Oxfam Novib each year give the Oxfam Novib/PEN International Free Expression Award to writers who continue to work for freedom of expression in the face of persecution.…
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Margie Orford elected to the board of PEN International
South African writer and PEN SA President Margie Orford has been elected to the international board of PEN International. She follows the South African Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer who was appointed Vice President of PEN International, a position she held until her death. Orford is well-known journo who has written for The Guardian, the Observer,…