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Pen international : an illustrated history : literature knows no frontiers

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Pen international : an illustrated history : literature knows no frontiers / edited by Carles Torner and Jan Martens ; authors Ginevra Avalle, Jennifer Clement, Peter McDonald, Rachel Potter, Carles Torner and Laetitia Zecchini.

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London : Thames & Hudson, 2021.
©2021

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315 pages : illustrations (some color); 30 cm

Summary

PEN - 'Poets, Essayists, Novelists' - was founded in London in 1921 to promote friendship, intellectual co-operation and exchange between writers from around the world. It has since become a worldwide network of writers, a community extended to more than 100 countries who for 100 years has worked to celebrate all literatures without exception and protect freedom of expression. What was PEN's role in shaping the very concept of human rights even before it was adopted by the United Nations in 1948? How did PEN develop fundamental ideas on free speech as well as the equality of languages and literatures? This book tells the extraordinary story of how writers from around the world placed the celebration of literature and the defence of free speech at the centre of humanity's struggle against repression and terror. From opposing book burning and the persecution of writers in Nazi Germany, to supporting dissident writers during the Cold War and campaigning for imprisoned writers in China today, PEN has worked to safeguard against all kinds of censorship and self-censorship. The extraordinary writers who have been PEN cases is a history of bravery and include Federico Garcia Lorca, Stefan Zweig, Musine Kokalari, Wole Soyinka, Salman Rushdie, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Anna Politkovskaya, Hrant Dink and Svetlana Alexievich.00Those writers' voices, and those of the many others who have battled to uphold the opening phrase of PEN's Charter - 'Literature knows no frontiers' - are still very much with us. Without them, PEN International could not have become the strong, vibrant, active movement it is today.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Call Number

JFG 21-220

ISBN

0500024618
9780500024614

OCLC

1240413047

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Publisher

London : Thames & Hudson, 2021.

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Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Torner, Carles, editor.

Martens, Jan, editor.

Avalle, Ginevra, author.

Clement, Jennifer, author.

McDonald, Peter , author.

Potter, Rachel, author.

Torner, Carles, author.

Zecchini, Laetitia, author.

Research Call Number

JFG 21-220

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