Please join Interlink Publishing and the Massachusetts Review in celebrating 100 years of protecting freedom of expression and the launch of PEN’s Centenary book:
Meet authors Jennifer Clement (President of PEN 2015-2021) and Carles Torner (PEN’s Executive Director 2014-2020 and Director of the PEN Centenary) and listen to them narrate stories of the 100 years of PEN’s evolution illustrating them with pictures, handwritten letters of prisoners, and other crucial PEN documents.
Date: Tuesday, November 16th
Time: 7:30 to 9:00 pm
Place: Integrated Learning Center (ILC), N151, UMass, Amherst
Free and open to the public. Masking and proof of vaccination required.
This event is organized by Interlink Publishing and the Massachusetts Review and co-sponsored by the following: The Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, the MFA for Poets and Writers, the Program in Comparative Literature, Spanish and Portuguese Studies, and Catalan Studies, all at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
About the event
Interlink Publishing invites you to the book launch of PEN: An Illustrated History. This lavishly-illustrated and beautifully-designed volume tells the extraordinary story of how PEN International has placed the celebration of literature and the defense of free speech at the center of humanity’s struggle against repression since 1921. The book takes the reader through the key moments of PEN’s history over the last 100 years, in 320 pages and more than 500 pictures, letters, documents, posters and maps. From opposing book-burning and the persecution of writers in Nazi Germany, to supporting imprisoned writers across the world today, PEN has worked to safeguard against all kinds of censorship and self-censorship. The extraordinary writers who have been PEN cases include: Federico García Lorca, Stefan Zweig, Musine Kokalari, Wole Soyinka, Salman Rushdie, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Anna Politkovskaya, Hrant Dink, Svetlana Alexievich and many others.
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