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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...

/ 13 January 2025

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...

/ 7 January 2025
Saamen lippu lipputangossa kuvattuna sinistä taivasta vasten.

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...

/ 6 February 2024

Our Golden Language – a panel discussion on Sámi literature at the Ijahis idja festival in Inari on 16 Aug 2019

Our Golden Language – Finnish PEN organises a panel discussion on Sámi literature at the indigenous peoples’ music festival Ijahis...

/ 2 July 2019

Resolution on Russia – Minority Languages

Resolution on Russia – Minority Languages The Assembly of Delegates of International PEN, meeting at its 76th International Congress in...

/ 23 November 2010