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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...

/ 13 November 2024
Judyth Hill

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...

/ 6 May 2022
Kolmessa erillisessä kuvassa vasemmalta alkaen KÄtlin Kaldmaa, Regula Venske ja Burhan Sönmez.

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...

/ 20 October 2021

Samay Hamed: For the last American soldier

For the last American soldier: Goodbye General Greet your daughter from the girls of Kabul Tell her about the colorful...

/ 1 September 2021
PENin ja Muumien yhteismalliston kuvia t-paidoista ja kangaskassista

Moomin Characters Ltd is a sponsor of PEN International’s Centenary

PEN International’s press release in English

/ 14 August 2021
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PEN Resolution on China

The Assembly of Delegates of PEN International, on its 86 th annual Congress online, 2 to 6 November 2020; PEN...

/ 15 January 2021
Nasrin Sotoudeh

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...

/ 8 December 2020
Hondurasilainen ihmisoikeusaktivisti Erlin Mejia kulkee pyörätuolissa kahden mellakkavarusteisen poliisin välistä.

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...

/ 17 September 2020

Julian Assangen oikeudenkäynti luovutuksesta Yhdysvaltoihin siirtyi syyskuulle

Oikeudenkäynti Wikileaksin perustaja Julian Assangen luovuttamisesta Britanniasta Yhdysvaltoihin siirtyi toukokuulta syyskuulle. Lontoolainen oikeusistuin aloitti luovutuspyynnön käsittelyn jo helmikuussa. Yhdysvallat on...

/ 11 May 2020

Clas Zilliacus: Hemma överallt

PENs WiP (Writers in Prison) Committees och nätverket ICORN (International Cities of Refuge Network) möttes i Rotterdam 29 – 31...

/ 18 June 2019

Kieli- ja käännöskomiteoiden kongressi järjestettiin toukokuun alussa Meksikossa

Raportti PENin kieli- ja käännöskomiteoiden konferenssista 2019Meksiko, Chiapas, San Cristóbal 1.-5.5.2019 / Veera Tyhtilä Kieli- ja käännöskomiteoiden kokous järjestettiin YK:n...

/ 25 May 2019

PEN International Fellowship 2018

Mojibur Doftori, PEN Finland’s board member and the chair of its Writers at Risk Committee, was invited as a fellow...

/ 13 February 2019

Finnish PEN’s Resolution on Stifling of Digital Freedom passed in Pune

Digitalization is transforming the world at an unprecedented pace in human history giving people powerful tools to improve lives and...

/ 19 October 2018

PEN event – Writers for freedom of speech July 16th

The Writer’s Association Finnish PEN organizes an event with PEN America on Monday, 16 July 2018 at 2–4.00 pm on...

/ 11 July 2018

Bangladesh: Publisher killed

11 June 2018 – PEN International is deeply saddened and concerned at today’s news that publisher and writer, Shahzahan Bachchu, was murdered in Munshiganj, Bangladesh...

/ 14 June 2018

The PEN International Women’s Manifesto

The first and founding principle of the PEN Charter asserts that ‘literature knows no frontiers’. These frontiers were traditionally thought...

/ 8 March 2018

Nordic PEN centres and Estonian PEN gather in Helsinki

Members from Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish PEN centres are gathering in Helsinki to a network meeting on...

/ 5 September 2016

Remember to register for Priceless Words seminar

Priceless Words – The Nordic-Estonian Freedom of Speech Seminar takes place on 9.9. in Helsinki. The registration is available still...

/ 27 August 2016