PEN International

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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 .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.
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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.
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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
and has consistently spoken out against political oppression and punishment of writers opposing their national governments.
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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