PEN International

She had already put in four years as president of the English Centre of PEN International and had chaired its Writers in Prison Committee .

Having, as a member from its early years of the P. E. N. Club (later PEN International), supported writers persecuted for their opinions, GHS began in the 1930s to work for refugees from Nazi Germany...

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...

As a writer she was an assiduous attender of literary festivals, a virtuoso reader of her own and other authors' work. She tells a story from her whoring or book-promotion days of sitting beside Edna O'Brien

While in Palestine in 1947-8 CM was working as a correspondent for Paris Presse and L'Aube. She was Middle East correspondent for both these papers during the next couple of years. She and Clare Hollingworth

CADS founded the Tomorrow Club in London to mentor new writers; it became the germ of PEN .

The first PEN dinner was held at the Florence Restaurant in Piccadilly, marking the transformation of the Tomorrow Club into another organization for writers; CADS was founder or co-founder of each.

In 2007 she sat on the panel judging the Eric Gregory awards for new writing. In 2008 she became the first writer in residence at Somerset House and the first poet in residence for the...

During the summer and autumn of 1921, VH helped her friend and colleague C. A. Sappho Dawson Scott with the establishment of the P.E.N. Club (later PEN International ), originally a writers' association designed to...

Jameson described the 1933 Labour Conference at Hastings as haunted by the ghost of German Social Democracy, in the shape usually of a young doctor or lawyer, with a pale intelligent face, and no money...

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).

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...

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...

ML belonged to the Women's Press Club of London and to PEN .

PB is a member of the Society of Authors and of PEN .