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PEN World Voices Festival

New York City's first literary festival returns from May 6 - 12, with 70+ events and 200+ writers, artists, and thinkers, including the Guardian's own editors and contributors

April 2024

  • Twenty-eight out of 61 nominated authors and translators withdrew their books from consideration for Pen America’s annual award ceremony.

    PEN America cancels festival after authors drop out in support of Gaza

    Cancellation of World Voices festival comes days after organization cancelled 2024 edition of its annual awards ceremony

March 2024

  • a person carries a Palestinian flag

    PEN America invites writers who exited festival over Gaza to discuss ‘divergent views’

  • Protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza near the White House in Washington on 16 October 2023.

    Authors withdraw from PEN America festival in protest over Israel-Gaza war

May 2023

  • Masha Gessen speaks during an event.

    Author resigns from PEN America board amid row over Russian writers panel

    Masha Gessen steps down as vice-president as group admits ‘mistakes’ over cancellation of literary festival

13 May 2019

  • Arundhati Roy

    Literature provides shelter. That's why we need it

    Arundhati Roy
    In a world that is hardening, literature can offer an indestructible place of refuge writes Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things

9 May 2019

  • PAKISTAN-SOCIETY-WOMEN<br>Pakistani civil society activists carry placards and shout slogans during a rally for women rights on International Women's Day in Lahore on March 8, 2019. (Photo by ARIF ALI / AFP) (Photo credit should read ARIF ALI/AFP/Getty Images)

    Pakistan: where the daily slaughter of women barely makes the news

    Mohammed Hanif
    The stories of murdered women are recorded with grim regularity in one and half inches of a single newspaper column

7 May 2019

  • People on Security Camera<br>GettyImages-a0073-000101

    Is Chinese-style surveillance coming to the west?

    Chip Rolley
    The Chinese model is now being exported – and the results could be terrifying

3 May 2019

  • The Big Chill

    PEN World Voices Festival: The Big Chill: Creativity in the era of data mining

  • It happened to me

    PEN World Voices Festival: It happened to me

  • Surveillance Capitalism

    PEN World Voices Festival: Surveillance Capitalism, Human Autonomy, And you

  • Person Place Politics Rescuing Ourselves from States of Turmoil

    PEN World Voices Festival: Person, Place, and Politics: Recusing Ourselves from States of Turmoil

  • PEN World Voices Festival: Siri, where's my democracy?

  • PEN World Voices Festival: Meditations on war

  • PEN World Voices Festival: Transfronterizo Life

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