PEN International

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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.
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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.
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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 Evelyn Sharp
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...
politics Harold Pinter
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...
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, 1993.
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.
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
A poem from this volume was anthologized...
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.
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, No. 2, 1 June 2001– 2025, pp. 86-8.
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and the year after that the Golden PEN Award for...
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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