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PEN Journey 17: Gathering in Helsingør

By Joanne Leedom-Ackerman / January 17, 2020 /

PEN International celebrates its Centenary in 2021. I’ve been active in PEN for more than 30 years in various positions and now as an International Vice President Emeritus. With memories stirring and file drawers of documents and correspondence bulging, I am a bit of a walking archive and have been asked by PEN International to write down…

PEN Journey 16: The Universal, the Relative and the Changing PEN

By Joanne Leedom-Ackerman / January 9, 2020 /

PEN International celebrates its Centenary in 2021. I’ve been active in PEN for more than 30 years in various positions and now as an International Vice President Emeritus. With memories stirring and file drawers of documents and correspondence bulging, I am a bit of a walking archive and have been asked by PEN International to write down…

PEN Journey 15: Speaking Out: Death and Life

By Joanne Leedom-Ackerman / December 18, 2019 /

PEN International celebrates its Centenary in 2021. I’ve been active in PEN for more than 30 years in various positions and now as an International Vice President Emeritus. With memories stirring and file drawers of documents and correspondence bulging, I am a bit of a walking archive and have been asked by PEN International to write down…

PEN Journey 14: Speaking Out: PEN’s Peace Committee and Exile Network

By Joanne Leedom-Ackerman / December 11, 2019 /

PEN International celebrates its Centenary in 2021. I’ve been active in PEN for more than 30 years in various positions and now as an International Vice President Emeritus. With memories stirring and file drawers of documents and correspondence bulging, I am a bit of a walking archive and have been asked by PEN International to write down…

PEN Journey 13: PEN and the U.N. in a Changing World

By Joanne Leedom-Ackerman / November 20, 2019 /

PEN International celebrates its Centenary in 2021. I’ve been active in PEN for more than 30 years in various positions and now as an International Vice President Emeritus. With memories stirring and file drawers of documents and correspondence bulging, I am a bit of a walking archive and have been asked by PEN International to write down…

PEN Journey 12: Tolerance on the Horizon?

By Joanne Leedom-Ackerman / November 8, 2019 /

PEN International celebrates its Centenary in 2021. I’ve been active in PEN for more than 30 years in various positions and now as an International Vice President Emeritus. With memories stirring and file drawers of documents and correspondence bulging, I am a bit of a walking archive and have been asked by PEN International to write down…

PEN Journey 11: Death and Its Threat: the Ultimate Censor

By Joanne Leedom-Ackerman / October 25, 2019 /

PEN International celebrates its Centenary in 2021. I’ve been active in PEN for more than 30 years in various positions and now as an International Vice President Emeritus. With memories stirring and file drawers of documents and correspondence bulging, I am a bit of a walking archive and have been asked by PEN International to write down…

PEN Journey 10: WiPC: Beware of Principles

By Joanne Leedom-Ackerman / October 9, 2019 /

PEN International celebrates its Centenary in 2021. I’ve been active in PEN for more than 30 years in various positions and now as an International Vice President Emeritus. With memories stirring and file drawers of documents and correspondence bulging, I am a bit of a walking archive and have been asked by PEN International to write down…

PEN Journey 9: The Fraught Roads of Literature

By Joanne Leedom-Ackerman / September 20, 2019 /

PEN International celebrates its Centenary in 2021. I’ve been active in PEN for more than 30 years in various positions and now as an International Vice President Emeritus. With memories stirring and file drawers of documents and correspondence bulging, I am a bit of a walking archive and have been asked by PEN International to write down…

PEN Journey 8: Thresholds of Change…Passing the Torch 

By Joanne Leedom-Ackerman / September 3, 2019 /

PEN International celebrates its Centenary in 2021. I’ve been active in PEN for more than 30 years in various positions and now as an International Vice President Emeritus. With memories stirring and file drawers of documents and correspondence bulging, I am a bit of a walking archive and have been asked by PEN International to write down…

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