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On October 15, 2007 PEN American Center hosted a special evening to honor Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ernest Hardy, Harryette Mullen, and Alberto Ríos,
recipients of this year’s PEN/Beyond Margins Award. The works of this year’s recipients span an impressive range, touching upon themes of deconstruction, regeneration, and the recycling of narratives and cultural detritus to create artwork of exceptional power and beauty. Presented in this month’s feature are audio recordings and photos from the event, excerpts from the winners’ works, and exclusive online conversations between Harryette Mullen and Erica Hunt, and Elizabeth Nunez and M.G. Vassanji.
>> Learn more about PEN Beyond Margins
2007 Beyond Margins Celebration: Readings and Conversation
Online Coversation: Harryette Mullen & Erica Hunt
Online Conversation: M.G. Vassanji & Elizabeth Nunez
World Voices Conversation: Michael Ondaatje & Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Blood Beats: Vol. 1
by Ernest Hardy
When you are the one marginalized and you struggle to represent self
and experiences, you can either do so by funneling your shit through
the vocab and paradigms that have been historically set in place and
elevated (and, in doing so, you effectively reinforce the primacy and
superiority of the dominant/ established order) or you struggle to
create new models, thereby not only challenging but even mocking or
dismissing the accepted model which likewise dismisses you. You may not
create beauty, you may not create lasting “art” but you forge a new
tongue, force a new way of looking and interpreting—a new value
system. [More]
Half of a Yellow Sun
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Theater of Night
by Alberto Ríos
I saw Clemente this morning in a dream.
It was him, Clemente, but when he was young.
I knew the hard, animal bones of his face.
I went to school with a boy like that and I have an uncle, too.
You’ve seen them, people with so much horse in them still
Even after centuries, so much horse and donkey
In the strong ones, so much spider
In the skinny ones, the way their thin fingers
Move over a piece of chicken. . . .
[More]
Recyclopedia
by Harryette Mullen
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To Be Translated or Not
to Be
Literature knows no frontiers and must remain common currency among nations in
spite of political or international upheavals.
—International PEN Charter
International PEN and the Institut Ramon Llull
of Barcelona present To Be Translated or Not to
Be, a report on the state of international literary translation.
Edited by Esther Allen, the report features contributions by Gabriela Adamo,
Carme Arenas, Chen Maipng, Bas Pauw, Anne-Sophie Simenel, Simona Skrabec, and
Riky Stock, as well as a foreword by Paul Auster.
>> Download a PDF of the report
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NEWS ARCHIVE:
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October 29, 2007: China Releases Tibetan Monk from Prison After 18 Years; Ngawang Phulchung is 4th PEN Honorary Member Released This Year
October 23, 2007: House
Foreign Affairs Committee Unanimously Passes Global Online Freedom Act
October 17, 2007: House Passes Historic Federal Shield Law: Bill Protects Public’s Right to Know
October 12, 2007: China Cracks Down on Media on Eve of Party Congress
October 1, 2007: Settle OFAC Lawsuit; Publishers Free to Issue Work from Cuba, Iran, Sudan
October 11, 2007: PEN, Co-Plaintiffs Settle OFAC Lawsuit; Publishers Free to Issue Work from Cuba, Iran, Sudan
September 18, 2007: Jailed Cuban Writer, Extremely Ill, Hospitalized; May Be Freed
September 6, 2007: District Court Strikes Down National Security Letter Provision
September 21, 2007: Iran Frees Scholar Kian Tajbakhsh
August 21, 2007:
PEN Welcomes Release of Haleh Esfandiari in Iran; Awaits News of Kian Tajbakhsh
July 26, 2007:
PEN Hails Release of Tunisian Writer Who Denounced Torture
July 27, 2007: At 73rd PEN Congress, Focus Is on PEN in Africa, Iraqi Writers & Linguistic Rights
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June 19, 2007: Senate Introduces Bill on Iraqi Refugees
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