Joy Hyvärinen: Freedom of expression of non-fiction writers and researchers under threat
Harassment is threatening the freedom of expression of non-fiction writers and researchers in Finland. Disagreements, disputes and criticism are part...
5th Indigenous and Minoritised Languages Videopoems Marathon
PEN International’s Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee is organising a new Video-Poem Marathon in Indigenous and Minoritised Languages, from February...
Olli Heikkonen: Endangered Uralic languages
No small language and literature is safe under the pressure of big languages. According to UNESCO, most of the existing...
Matteo Stocchetti: Freedom of expression and genocide
How can freedom of expression stop an ongoing genocide? What are ways of exercising this freedom that can stop the...
Report: PEN International Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee Annual Meeting in Inari 4–7 June 2024
Finnish PEN organized International Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee Meeting in Inari. The theme was Dialogues in Sápmi – Making...
PEN-TLRC Statement on Sámi Language and Literature
Gathered in the Sámi capital of Aanaar / Aanar / Anár (Inari), where three Sámi languages converge, the members of...
Minna Castrén: Promoting literature and reading is a fight for freedom of expression
Minna Castrén’s text is only in Finnish and Swedish.
Matteo Stocchetti: Freedom of expression is not enough
To strengthen democracy, we need communicative competences. The idea that freedom of expression is one of the fundamental democratic freedoms...
Laura Lindstedt: The writer’s freedom of expression in a world dominated by spectacle
What comes to mind from the words “writer’s freedom of expression”? Do you think of imprisoned, exiled or murdered writers,...
Oula-Antti Labba: The decade of indigenous languages is also significant for freedom of expression
The Sámi indigenous peoples celebrate their National Day on 6 February. At the same time the decade of indigenous languages...
Janne Huuskonen: The authorities must respect the law
Freedom of expression allows criticism of those in power. Politicians have a broad right to freedom of expression, perhaps even...
Sulava audiocollection in Finnish and in English
“Sulava – Multilingual literature in Finland” published by Suomen PEN in 2021 contains texts by 22 authors in 15 different...
Peter Mickwitz: A trip to Ukraine
The last week of October I travelled to Kyiv, Ukraine together with representatives for the Nordic PEN centres, PEN Berlin,...
Inger-Mari Aikio
I have worked as a freelance artist since 2008. Before that, I was a journalist for a magazine and on...
Gag Baani
I was forced to leave the country after spending 45 years in a small village ‘Gag’ in the backward part...
Csilla Csépke
Csilla Csépke is a Helsinki based writer from Hungary. She was born in the stern winter of 1986 in Budapest,...
Muhaned Durubi
Muhaned Durubi (born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1979) is a visual artist and a poet who lives in Helsinki. In...
Zoila Forss
Zoila Forss-Crespo Moreyra was born in Lima, Peru, on April 18, 1969. In 1995 Forss received her BA in Communications...
Yaseen Ghaleb
Yaseen Ghaleb Aldhadi, is an Iraqi writer who is currently based in Helsinki, Finland since 2015. In 2005 he graduated...
Saad Hadi
Saad Hadi is an Iraqi writer, journalist, and visual artist born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1956. He holds a master’s...