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PEN International
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Occupation | Margaret Atwood | Later, in 1982-3, MA
was President of the Writers' Union of Canada
. She was President of the Canadian branch of PEN International
in 1984-6. She became a Vice-President of Pen International on 11 July... |
politics | Margaret Atwood | MA
has taken an increasingly prominent role in shaping opinion on urgent questions confronting Canadians and others living with the new global economy. In articles, lectures, and interviews she has examined environmental issues, nationalism, governance... |
Publishing | Margaret Atwood | It was also issued in a limited, boxed edition (150 copies) with Atwood's own artwork, for the benefit of PEN International
. Smith, Caitlin. PEN Canada Members’ Bulletin. |
Textual Production | Margaret Atwood | This book was published as a fundraiser for the PEN International
Writers in Prison Program and the Writers' Development Trust
. |
politics | Pat Barker | PB
is a member of the Society of Authors
and of PEN
. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 50: 12 |
Occupation | Nina Bawden | NB
sat on various literary committees: PEN International
, the Society of Authors
, and the Royal Society of Literature
. She was president of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists
, following in... |
Textual Production | Patricia Beer | PB
's varied prose output includes editing work: the PEN
poetry collections of 1962 (with Ted Hughes
and Vernon Scannell
) and 1975, and New Poetry 2, 1976 (with Kevin Crossley-Holland
). She began... |
Literary responses | Patricia Beer | British Book News was as grudging about the 1975 PEN
poetry anthology as it was the same year (1976) about Driving West. It reported that this series plods on with safe, unexciting choices, though... |
politics | Joanna Cannan | JC
belonged to the English Centre of International PEN
, the worldwide association of writers. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 191 |
politics | Lettice Cooper | LC
was president of International PEN
, having already served first on the executive committee and then as chair of English PEN
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press. |
politics | Anita Desai | She is a member of PEN International
, TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 4563 (14 September 1990): 972 |
Textual Production | Nawal El Saadawi | In May she addressed PEN International
in New York. Nawal El Saadawi—Sherif Hetata. http://www.nawalsaadawi.net. |
Travel | Nawal El Saadawi | She visited London in April 2009, and went on to New York the following month in connection with a conference of PEN International
. She was in London again in April 2010 and in late... |
Occupation | Antonia Fraser | AF
's public work continued after her second marriage. She chaired the Crime Writers' Association
, and became in 1984 a founding trustee of the Authors' Foundation
. When she retired as a trustee she... |
Author summary | John Galsworthy | JG
was a novelist and dramatist who began publishing just before the end of the nineteenth century. The series of novels for which he is now best known, The Forsyte Saga, is historical, since... |
Timeline
5 October 1921: The P.E.N. Club (later PEN International),...
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5 October 1921
The P.E.N. Club
(later PEN International
), a world association of authors, was founded in London by writers C. A. Dawson Scott
and Violet Hunt
.
September 1949: PEN International held a conference in Venice....
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September 1949
PEN International
held a conference in Venice. Delegates included W. H. Auden
, C. P. Snow
, Pamela Hansford Johnson
, and Cecily Mackworth
.
1991: At the International PEN Congress in Vienna,...
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1991
At the International PEN
Congress in Vienna, a majority of the delegates voted for the establishment of a Women Writers Committee
.
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