PEN International

She is a member of PEN International , and has consistently spoken out against political oppression and punishment of writers opposing their national governments.

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).

As to international politics, Pinter spoke out against the forcible, USA-backed ousting of President Salvador Allende of Chile in September 1973. Like his second wife, he was a strong supporter of PEN International . The...

Both kept up their political activity during the 1930s with active membership of such organizations as the National Council for Civil Liberties (whose first executive committee Sharp sat on) and of PEN International . Even...

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...

MS attended the founding meeting in Soho of the P.E.N. Club , which became the well-known and influential writers' organization PEN International.

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 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...

It was also issued in a limited, boxed edition (150 copies) with Atwood's own artwork, for the benefit of PEN International .

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...

The following year she won the David Cohen British Literature Prize, which The Author called the best and most worthy of all literary prizes, and the year after that the Golden PEN Award for...

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. A poem from this volume was anthologized...

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...

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...