The Latest Breaking News from PEN America

Authors and translators say PEN America has ‘had no criticism of American complicity in the bombardment of Gaza’, in stark contrast to other national centres of the organisation

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Tuesday that tightens the state's law, restricting numerous books and classroom materials subject to challenges within school districts.

Vrinda Varma, Assistant Professor, National Institute of Technology, Calicut (NIT-C), has been chosen for a grant instituted by PEN America for literary translation. Ms. Varma translated Alingam, a Malayalam novel by S. Girish Kumar based on the life of dramatist Ochira Velukutti.

The writers group is also making a ‘substantial financial contribution’ to fund for distribution to Palestinian writers

Group of more than a dozen writers decry organization’s inadequate response to ‘genocide’ being committed by Israel

Writers including Roxane Gay have called on the organisation to ‘wake up from its silent, tepid, self-congratulatory middle of the road and take a stand’

Education chief actively integrating extremist right-wing ideologies into state's education system, critics say

A teacher at a public school near Houston has a secret classroom bookshelf largely made up of challenged titles. Many of the books deal with race, sex and gender.

Escambia County School District has pulled more than 1,600 books to review them for pornography or depictions of sexual conduct