“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
PEN International
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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 | 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). |
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... |
politics | Marghanita Laski | |
politics | Pat Barker | PB
is a member of the Society of Authors
and of PEN
. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes. 50: 12 |
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 | Ali Smith | AS
largely avoids intervening with her authorial presence in her writing, and argues that there is no clear point of intersection between her work and her allegiances or identities, national, sexual, and so on. Gonda, Caroline. “An Other Country? Mapping Scottish/Lesbian/Writing”. Gendering the Nation: Studies in Modern Scottish Literature, edited by Christopher Whyte, Edinburgh University Press, 1995, pp. 1-24. 5 |
politics | May Sinclair | MS
attended the founding meeting in Soho of the P.E.N. Club
, which became the well-known and influential writers' organization PEN
International. Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1973. 133 |
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. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Smith, Caitlin, and Isobel Grundy. PEN Canada Members’ Bulletin. July 2007. |
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. qtd. in Padel, Ruth. Angel. Bloodaxe, 1993. back cover |
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 | 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, 1 June 2001– 2024, pp. 86-8. 87 |
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... |
Textual Production | Nawal El Saadawi | In May she addressed PEN International
in New York. Nawal El Saadawi—Sherif Hetata. http://www.nawalsaadawi.net. |
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