"PEN American Center"
Carlo Lucarelli
Carlo Lucarelli has published 11 crime novels
since his debut in 1990 and is the recipient
of numerous prizes for his work. He is a
founding member of the literary circle Gruppo
13 and he also teaches writing in Turin.
His novels include Indagine non autorizzata,
Almost Blue, and Il giorno del lupo.
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ABOUT PEN: PEN American Center is the largest of the
141 centers of International PEN, the world’s
oldest human rights organization and the
oldest international literary organization.
International PEN was founded in 1921 to
dispel national, ethnic, and racial hatreds
and to promote understanding among all countries.
PEN American Center, founded a year later,
works to advance literature, to defend free
expression, and to foster international literary
fellowship. The Center has a membership of
2,900 distinguished writers, editors, and
translators. In addition to defending writers
in prison or in danger of imprisonment for
their work, PEN American Center sponsors
public literary programs and forums on current
issues, sends prominent authors to inner-city
schools to encourage reading and writing,
administers literary prizes, promotes international
literature that might otherwise go unread
in the United States, and offers grants and
loans to writers facing financial or medical
emergencies. In carrying out this work, PEN
American Center builds upon the achievements
of such dedicated past members as W. H. Auden,
James Baldwin, Willa Cather, Robert Frost,
Langston Hughes, Thomas Mann, Arthur Miller,
Marianne Moore, Susan Sontag, and John Steinbeck.
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Participants
Kader Abdolah - Andre Aciman - Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie - Fadhil al-Azzawi - Hanan
al-Shaykh - Elizabeth Alexander - Svetlana
Alexievich - Esther Allen - Nuria Amat -
Jonathan Ames - Jakob Arjouni - Margaret
Atwood - Antoine Audouard - Paul Auster -
Elizabeth Klosty Beaujour - Anouar Benmalek
- Tom Bissell - François Bizot - Breyten
Breytenbach - Chico Buarque - Ian Buruma
- Peter Bush - Jean Canavaggio - Peter Carey
- Orly Castel-Bloom - Rafael Chirbes - Yvette
Christiansë - Tsitsi Dangarembga - Achmat
Dangor - Mark Danner - Bei Dao - Assia Djebar
- E. L. Doctorow - Tomás Eloy Martinez -
Carolin Emcke - Victor Erofeyev - Martin
Espada - Nuruddin Farah - Lilian Faschinger
- Jonathan Franzen - Cornelia Funke - John
Godfrey - Francisco Goldman - Adam Gopnik
- Philip Gourevitch - Edith Grossman - Durs
Grünbein - Ahmad Karimi Hakkak - Robert Hass
- Vaclav Havel - Edward Hirsch - Eva Hoffman
- Michael Hofmann - Nancy Huston - Siri Hustvedt
- Gish Jen - Ha Jin - Ryszard Kapuscinski
- Nassim Khaksar - Natsuo Kirino - Wayne
Koestenbaum - Hanif Kureishi - Susanne Lange
- Katja Lange-Müller - Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton
- Bernard-Henri Lévy - Susie Linfield - Lois
Lowry - Carlo Lucarelli - Claudio Magris
- Andreï Makine - Kanan Makiya - Aleskandra
Mancic - Norman Manea - Joan Margarit Consarnau
- Khaled Mattawa - Zakes Mda - Pedro Rosa
Mendes - Dunya Mikhail - James Miller - Pankaj
Mishra - Minae Mizumura - Rick Moody - Pat
Mora - Kyoko Mori - Nahid Mozaffari - Antonio
Muñoz Molina - Azar Nafisi - Cees Nooteboom
- Michael Ondaatje - Shahrnush Parsipur -
Robert Polito - Elena Poniatowska - José
Manuel Prieto - Francine Prose - Jordi Puntí
Garriga - David Remnick - Laura Restrepo
- Patrick Roth - Salman Rushdie - Yuri Rythkeu
- Shan Sa - Luc Sante - John Ralston Saul
- Aline Schulman - Elif Shafak - Gary Shteyngart
- Robert Silvers - Wole Soyinka - Peter Stamm
- Antonio Tabucchi - Paco Ignacio Taibo -
Niloufar Talebi - Goli Taraghi - Yoko Tawada
- Shashi Tharoor - Ngugi wa Thiong'o - Uwe
Timm - Lyonel Trouillot - Barber van de Pol
- Lawrence Venuti - Eliot Weinberger - Lawrence
Weschler - Leon Wieseltier - Sholeh Wolpe
- Huang Xiang - Oksana Zabuzhko - Adam Zagajewski
INTERNATIONAL PEN: International PEN, the worldwide association
of writers, was founded in 1921 to promote
friendship and intellectual co-operation
among writers everywhere; to emphasise the
role of literature in the development of
mutual understanding and world culture; to
fight for freedom of expression; and to act
as a powerful voice on behalf of writers
harassed, imprisoned and sometimes killed
for their views.
PEN is strictly non-political, a non-governmental
organization in formal consultative relations
with UNESCO and Special Consultative Status
with the Economic and Social Council of the
United Nations.
PEN is composed of Centres, each of which
represents its membership and not its country,
and membership of its Centres is open to
all qualified writers, journalists, translators,
historians and others actively engaged in
any branch of literature, regardless of nationality,
race, colour or religion. Every member is
required to sign the PEN Charter and by so
doing to observe its conditions.
For more information on International PEN,
please visit their web site at: www.internationalpen.org.uk