Judyth Hill: Wage peace
Author and active PEN International member Judyth Hill is visiting Finland’s PEN 5-11.5. In addition to his commitment to freedom...
Writer Judyth Hill is the keynote speaker on Aino Kallas’s name day
Writer and active PEN International member Judyth Hill is visiting Finland. In addition to being a writer, Judyth Hill also...
Nataliya Teramae: How we brought up a dictator
Artists do have the gift of prophesying. For Ulf Stark’s book ‘The Dictator’ Linda Bondestam created a picture of a...
Nobel Laureates, writers and artists worldwide condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
(Read in Ukrainian, Russian, Arabic.) To our friends and colleagues in Ukraine, We, writers around the world, are appalled by the violence...
To hear the Sámi voices, Discussion on December 13th, 2021, via Zoom
In recent years, there has been a lot of hate speech and racist intimidation against the Sámi, especially on the...
Discussion on the situation in Afghanistan at the Tampere Book Fair
AFGHANISTAN: FLEE OR DIE Sunday 5.12. 12.00-13.00 The Tampere Book Fair – Book Festival When the Taliban took power in...
PEN International 100 years. Discussion at Helsinki Book Fair
Helsinki Book Fair: Sat 30.10. klo 18.30 Hakaniemi-lava: ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF WORK FOR GLOBAL FREEDOM OF SPEECH – PEN...
Sulava: The Multilingual Literature of Finland has been published by Finnish PEN
Sulava – The Multilingual Literature of Finland: Compilation offers a view of the diversity of languages within Finnish literature and,...
The Hate Speech Toolkit – Practical advice for people who are being harrassed online
Finnish PEN has published The Hate Speech Toolkit, which was presented at the meeting of the peace committees in Bled....
Moomin Characters Ltd is a sponsor of PEN International’s Centenary
PEN International’s press release in English
Siarhej Budkin: 35 000 shots in 10 months
Shot 1 The border between two countries. A plot of land in the borderland is well ploughed to see whether...
Ak Welsapar: Love in Lilac
A novella The sun rose higher and in the lilac garden everything was painfully familiar. Arslan had only to close...
Enough is enough
MITTA ON TÄYSI! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! STATEMENT OF THE CULTURE AND EVENT INDUSTRY 3.6.2021 The pandemic has plagued the whole...
Kolme toivomusta / Tre önskningar / Three wishes
Kolme toivomusta suomeksi Tre önskningar på svenska What would you as a woman wish for on the International Women´s Day?...
PEN Resolution on China
The Assembly of Delegates of PEN International, on its 86 th annual Congress online, 2 to 6 November 2020; PEN...
Finnish PEN participated in the discussion on the recent situation in Belarus
The vice president of Finnish PEN, Oula Silvennoinen participated the webinar “Human rights and freedom of the media in Belarus”....
Finnish PEN calls for the immediate release of our honorary member Nasrin Sotoudeh
Finnish PEN calls for the immediate and unconditional release of writer, human rights lawyer, activist and Finnish PEN honorary member...
Kianoush Ramezani: Freedom after Expression: a new challenge
In 2006, I was invited to give a speech about Muhammad Cartoons and freedom of speech, at the Central European...
Ale Díaz: My Odyssey in the Migration System
My name is Alejandro Díaz Ortiz, I am a Puerto Rican artist, musician, songwriter, graphic designer and a filmmaker who...
Claudia Morales: Erlin Mejía – Walking the refugee’s destiny
Erlin Armando Mejia Andino landed in Sweden three years ago, he is a 25 years old Honduran-born human rights activist...