In 1994, at a moment when freedom of expression in Iran was actively lethal, 134 Iranian writers issued an unusually ...
The fund provides critical assistance to and creates opportunities for writers living in exile in Canada, including needs ...
Under total internet shutdown and informational darkness, we still do not know how the killing machine is operating.
PEN Canada is a nonpartisan charity that celebrates literature, defends freedom of expression and helps exiled writers to establish new lives in Canada. PEN Canada believes that literature is the ...
The people of Iran need to be seen, to be heard, and to connect with the world. And we, writers, cannot remain as mere observers.
Save-the-date for an evening of inspiration and storytelling from the PEN Writers in Exile. Readers to be announced.
Reza Baraheni, Iranian dissident, prodigious author and former president of PEN Canada (2001-03) has died, at the age of 86, in Toronto. He is survived by his wife Sanaz Sehhati of Toronto; daughter, ...