PEN International

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Travel Pamela Hansford Johnson
In September 1949, before her second marriage, PHJ was in Venice for a conference of PEN International . Cecily Mackworth mentions her nervousness when at an official banquet she was seated next to the head...
Travel Gladys Henrietta Schütze
GHS later attended PEN conferences at Barcelona and Paris, in Hungary and in Poland. At Barcelona she was a joint delegate with E. M. Delafield .
Schütze, Gladys Henrietta. More Ha’pence Than Kicks. Jarrolds.
219, 221, 223
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...
Travel Cecily Mackworth
After travelling the Middle East, CM spent an unsettled, in-between year divided between London and Paris, with frequent crossings between Newhaven and Dieppe.
Mackworth, Cecily. Ends of the World. Carcanet.
109
In June 1949 she attended a Decade or conference on...
Travel Harold Pinter
HP and Arthur Miller , visiting Turkey for PEN International to protest against mistreatment of intellectuals, were proscribed by the military regime for giving a press conference.
Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada.
149-50
Travel Gladys Henrietta Schütze
GHS and her husband travelled to New York to help represent PEN International at the World's Fair there, the largest ever held.
Schütze, Gladys Henrietta. More Ha’pence Than Kicks. Jarrolds.
242
Travel May Sinclair
MS travelled to the USA as a delegate to the first-ever annual meeting of PEN International.
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press.
261
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...
Textual Production Judith Kazantzis
After this beginning to a feminist writing career, JK joined the Women's Literature Collective and began reviewing poetry for Spare Rib (where she also published her own poems) and other radical journals. During the 1980s...
Textual Production Gladys Henrietta Schütze
The phrase Harlequin Set describes a dinner-service composed of plates of different patterns. GHS explains how she and her husband had collected decorative plates, one by one, from many countries on their holidays, which they...
Textual Production Nawal El Saadawi
In May she addressed PEN International in New York.
Nawal El Saadawi—Sherif Hetata. http://www.nawalsaadawi.net.
Textual Production Margaret Atwood
This book was published as a fundraiser for the PEN International Writers in Prison Program and the Writers' Development Trust .
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.
cxii
, No. 2, pp. 86-8.
87
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.
back cover
A poem from this volume was anthologized...

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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