YEAR IN REVIEW

From the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo to the sixth anniversary of the PEN World Voices Festival, as well as many other programs and highlights, 2010 was an exceptional year for PEN. The 2010 year-end Feature showcases just a few of our events, publications, and advocacy campaigns. [More]



PEN AMERICA 13: LOVERS

Who is dear to you? PEN America 13 features short fiction by Don DeLillo, new poetry by John Ashbery and Marilyn Hacker, a conversation between Patti Smith and Jonathan Lethem, and much more—including a forum on literary love with John Barth, Jessica Hagedorn, Yusef Komunyakaa, and others. [More]


LIU XIAOBO AWARDED
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE


PEN American Center celebrates imprisoned writer Liu Xiaobo as the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Still serving an 11-year sentence, Liu’s absence at the ceremony was represented by an empty chair.

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NOBEL PEACE PRIZE CEREMONY
Nobel Preace Prize
Presentation Speech
by Thorbjørn Jagland

It has been important to remind the world that the rights so widely enjoyed today were fought for and won by persons who took great risks. [More]
I Have No Enemies
by Liu Xiaobo

There is no force that can put an end to the human quest for freedom, and China will in the end become a nation ruled by law, where human rights reign supreme. [More]
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