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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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politics Judith Kazantzis
JK joined the women's movement as soon as she read about it, and was active in London during the 1970s as a member of the first Women's Liberation Workshop , the Labour Party , and...
politics Gladys Henrietta Schütze
During Storm Jameson 's presidency of the English branch of PEN International (which began early in 1938) the Schützes lent Glebe House for a two-day sale raising funds for refugees from the Nazis . GHS
politics Marghanita Laski
ML belonged to the Women's Press Club of London and to PEN .
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
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.
politics John Galsworthy
JG was active in progressive social and political causes such as prison reform, and served as first president of the P. E. N. Club (later PEN International).
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...
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.
Reception John Galsworthy
He was too ill to travel to Stockholm to accept the award (he died the following month). He signed over the prize money to PEN International , an organisation over which he had presided since...
Reception Muriel Spark
MS received many honours, including being made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1963, an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1978, an Officier de l'Ordre des...
Reception Doris Lessing
The following year she won the David Cohen British Literature Prize, which The Author called the best and most worthy of all literary prizes,
Parker, Derek. “On the Side”. The Author, Vol.
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and the year after that the Golden PEN Award for...
Reception Ruth Padel
The Times Literary Supplement praised this volume's poignant sense of history.Sarah Maguire in The Listener added the insight that this was history problematised, not finished.
Padel, Ruth. Angel. Bloodaxe.
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A poem from this volume was anthologized...
Textual Production Margaret Atwood
This book was published as a fundraiser for the PEN International Writers in Prison Program and the Writers' Development Trust .

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