PEN International

This book was published as a fundraiser for the PEN International Writers in Prison Program and the Writers' Development Trust .

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...

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...

In May she addressed PEN International in New York.

GHS and her husband travelled to New York to help represent PEN International at the World's Fair there, the largest ever held.

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 .

After travelling the Middle East, CM spent an unsettled, in-between year divided between London and Paris, with frequent crossings between Newhaven and Dieppe. In June 1949 she attended a Decade or conference on...

MS travelled to the USA as a delegate to the first-ever annual meeting of PEN International.

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.

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...

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...