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	PEN American Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		PEN American Center (PEN), founded in 1922 and based in New York City, works to advance literature, to defend free expression, and to foster international literary fellowship.
		PEN is the largest of the 144 centres that belong to International PEN, the worldwide association of writers that defends those who are harassed, imprisoned and killed for their views.
		PEN is also a member of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange, a global network of non-governmental organisations that monitors free expression violations worldwide and campaigns to defend journalists, writers, human rights activists and Internet users who are persecuted for exercising their right to freedom of expression.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/PEN_American_Center (497 words)

	PEN American Center: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		PEN American Center is the largest of the 141 Centres that belong to International PEN International PEN quick summary:
		International pen, the worldwide association of writers, was founded in 1921 to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere; to emphasise...
		PEN American Center is also a member of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange International Freedom of Expression Exchange quick summary:
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pe/pen_american_center2.htm (671 words)

	PEN (P.E.N.) American Center Archives
		P.E.N. could and did, and on May 20, 1968, the Board paid a formal visit to the first permanent headquarters that the American Center had ever had: two large rooms on the second floor of an office building at Fifth Avenue and 20th Street.
		P.E.N. gave the explanation that the work still fell within their guidelines for qualification because it was published by a small house which did "vanity" publishing: the author paying to have his work published.
		American and European literature, history, politics, the theater, and society were all of tremendous concern to him, and, as all outstanding editors do, he shared his insights and enthusiasms with his colleagues and the authors with whom he worked.
	infoshare1.princeton.edu /libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/pen.html (14628 words)

	Barbara Goldsmith - PEN
		PEN is recognized as one of the most effective human rights groups in the world, representing over 15,000 members from 138 PEN centers who pledge themselves “to oppose any form of suppression of freedom of expression” in the country and community to which they belong.
		New York, New York, August 8, 2005: PEN American Center hailed the release today of Ali Al-Domaini, a leading Saudi literary figure who was one of three prominent intellectuals imprisoned for criticizing the pace and reach of human rights reforms in Saudi Arabia.
		PEN had received reports it believed to be reliable indicating that he was subjected to severe beatings in the early days of his detention.
	www.barbaragoldsmith.com /newsletter.htm (7333 words)

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		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.
	www.productionhub.com /resources/description.asp?item=21948&type=3 (120 words)

	Campaign For Reader Privacy - PEN American Center
		The Campaign for Reader Privacy is at the center of a major effort by many of America's leading writers to address free speech and human rights concerns connected with the USA PATRIOT Act and the full range of antiterrorism laws and executive orders enacted since September 11, 2001.
		PEN American Center is an organization of professional writers dedicated to defending freedom of expression in the United States and around the world.
		Much of PEN's work focuses on extending the freedoms to read and to write to men, women, and children in countries where these freedoms are not yet a birthright.
	www.readerprivacy.org /pen.jsp (350 words)

	PEN American Center - 2006 Call for Submissions
		PEN American Center is pleased to announce a call for submissions to its annual literary awards.
		These two awards honor a grand master of American theater and an outstanding new voice, both of whose literary achievements are vividly apparent in the rich and striking language of his or her works.
		In conjunction with the First Nonfiction Award, this award honors an American author for his or her first published memoir, distinguished by qualities of literary and stylistic excellence.
	www.pen.org /page.php/prmID/968 (410 words)

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		PEN and CPJ are particularly concerned about the welfare of imprisoned poet Dr. Flora Brovina, author Boban Miletic, and journalist Miroslav Filipovic.
		Flora Brovina, an Honorary PEN Member and recipient of the 2000 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom-to-Write Award, was arrested in Kosovo and charged with committing terrorist acts.
		PEN American Center is a fellowship of 2700 writers dedicated to defending freedom of expression and promoting literary culture.
	www.iwpr.net /archive/bcr/bcr_20000810_fil_4_eng.txt (465 words)

	American Civil Liberties Union : Statement of PEN American Center
		“PEN was founded on the belief that writers play a vital role in promoting international dialogue and that a free exchange of ideas and information across borders is essential to decrease the risk of conflict and war,” said Salman Rushdie, President of PEN American Center.
		In the face of a considerable body of work that offers no evidence that he endorses terrorism, his exclusion has raised fears here and overseas that the U.S. is once again barring individuals it feels may be critical of U.S. positions and policies.
		“PEN has long been active in challenging barriers that prevented important international writers and intellectuals from visiting the United States, and we continually invite writers from around the world to meet our members and American audiences.
	www.aclu.org /safefree/general/23591res20060124.html (385 words)

	Book Groups Protest Secrecy On Bookstore, Library Subpoenas
		PEN American Center, the Association of American Publishers and the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression expressed deep concern over the Justice Department's decision.
		PEN American Center's mission is to promote literature and protect free expression whenever writers or their work are threatened.
		In the United States, PEN defends the First Amendment and protects free speech through sign-on letter campaigns, direct appeals to policy makers, participation in lawsuits and intervention in legal cases, awards for First Amendment defenders, and public events.
	www.freeexpression.org /newswire/0819_2002.htm (533 words)

	Publishers and authors file suit against Treasury Department
		Those rulings and the regulations they interpret mandate that Americans (1) may not enter into transactions for works not yet fully completed, (2) may not provide "substantive or artistic alterations or enhancements" to the works, and (3) may not promote or market either new or previously existing works from the affected countries.
		American writers and publishers are being told that unless they get a license from OFAC, they may not work with their censored colleagues in these countries to bring their works into print."
		Marjorie Heins of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU and law professor Leon Friedman are co-counsel for PEN and Arcade.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-09/jws-paa092704.php (909 words)

	BookWeb: Bookselling This Week Archives: PEN Protests West Bank Censorship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		PEN American Center last week condemned the administration of Yasser Arafat, acting on reports that Palestinian bookstore owners in the West Bank had been advised not to sell two books by Edward Said.
		PEN American Center Executive Director Karen Kennerly said the organization would further investigate the reports.
		PEN plans to launch an international open letter of appeal from prominent writers urging Arafat to reverse the ban.
	www.bookweb.org /news/btw/archive/1178.html (261 words)

	The Free Expression Policy Project
		PEN American Center president Salman Rushdie added that "the OFAC regulations are arbitrary and counterproductive.
		Marjorie Heins of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law and law professor Leon Friedman are co-counsel for PEN and Arcade.
		PEN American Center is an organization of more than 2,500 prominent novelists, poets, essayists, translators, playwrights, and editors.
	www.fepproject.org /press/ofac.html (768 words)

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		PEN American Center, the largest of more than one hundred Centers worldwide that make up International PEN (poets, playwrights, essayists, editors, and novelists), is a membership association of literary writers and editors.
		PEN American Center 568 Broadway New York NY 10012 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS It would have been impossible for me to have written this report and to have gathered together all the material translated and discussed in it without help from many colleagues and friends.
		I am most grateful to her and PEN for initiating the project, and for the patience and care that she has devoted to the task of editing it.
	www.ibiblio.org /obl/docs/INKED-OVER.doc (22469 words)

	Women's WORLD
		A number of European PEN centers (England, France, Germany), and PEN's International Secretariat, were opposed to the idea, however, so the women decided to form an international network and continue to organize to gather more support.
		Although the International PEN Women Writers' Committee was able to play an important role in all these cases, some of their ideas also met with opposition within the organization, where there was still considerable hostility to feminism.
		RELAT inaugurates a Latin American network of women writers with headquarters in Peru and an international conference of women writers is held in Argentina.
	www.wworld.org /about/history.htm (2173 words)

	Materials for Suit: Press Release 12/15
		Works of critical importance to the advancement of science and our understanding of international affairs can now be published without threat of civil and criminal sanctions.Even works written by Iranian and Cuban dissidents could not be published in the United States under the prior regulations.” The new regulations can be located at http://www.treasury.gov/press/releases/js2152.htm.
		Arcade is the publisher of the upcoming PEN Anthology of Contemporary Iranian Literature.
		Counsel to the plaintiffs: The New York office of Davis Wright Tremaine, with co-counsel for PEN American Center and Arcade, Marjorie Heins of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU, and Leon Friedman of Hofstra Law School.
	www.aaupnet.org /ofac/release121504.html (373 words)

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		The PEN/ Joyce Osterweil Award for poetry is a $5000 prize that honors an emerging American poet of special promise.
		The PEN/American Center is the largest of 132 centers of International PEN, which was founded in 1921 to advance the cause of literature and reading and to defend free expression around the world.
		In addition to the PEN award, Levin recently received a Pushcart Prize for her poem “Adept” which originally appeared in the American Poetry Review, the largest poetry publication in the United States.
	www.csf.edu /webwriter/file/250-dana_PEN.doc (290 words)

	Biographer to Lead PEN Center in the U.S. - New York Times
		At the annual meeting of the PEN American Center on Thursday night, the organization of writers and editors is expected to ratify Ron Chernow, the best-selling biographer of J. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller and Alexander Hamilton, as its next president.
		The PEN American Center is an affiliate of International PEN, the literary and human rights organization founded in 1921.
		Most of PEN American Center's 3,100 members vote by proxy, so turnout at the annual meeting, held in the PEN offices, will likely be modest.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/03/21/books/21pen.html?ex=1300597200&en=a9a7e4f475be69eb&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (987 words)

	Kosova Crisis Center
		As an association of writers devoted to the defense of literature and the freedom of expression upon which it depends, we at PEN American Center are extremely alarmed at reports from Kosovo province in Yugoslavia of atrocities by Serbian forces, including alleged door-to-door executions of ethnic Albanians, specifically targeting writers, journalists, teachers and other intellectuals.
		Their leader, Simatovic - whom some refugees said this week died last year in combat, while others insisted he is still alive - is believed to be head of state security in Yugoslavia and one of the country's leading war-crimes suspects.
		While some people feared that a massacre of the men in the sports center could take place, one man who has worked with the international monitors who were observing the situation until a few weeks ago in Kosovo said he believed the dead so far numbered 20 to 30.
	www.alb-net.com /kcc/index19e.htm (3012 words)

	Materials for Suit: Press Release
		PEN American Center is an organization of over 2,500 prominent novelists, poets, essayists, translators, playwrights, and editors.
		As part of International PEN, it and its affiliated organizations have defended free and open communication within and among nations for more than 80 years.
		The 2,500 PEN American Center (www.pen.org) members are a major voice of the national and international literary community.
	aaupnet.org /ofac/405statement.html (393 words)

	Campaign For Reader Privacy - About Us
		Founded in 1900, the American Booksellers Association is a not-for-profit organization devoted to meeting the needs of its core members of independently owned bookstores with retail storefront locations through advocacy, education, research, and information dissemination.
		With a membership of more than 2,900 distinguished writers, editors, and translators, PEN American Center is the largest of the 141 centers of International PEN, the international literary and human rights organization that was founded in 1921...
		American publishers are strongly committed to an individual's right to read what he or she chooses without the government's knowledge or interference.
	www.readerprivacy.org /about.jsp (538 words)

	WordSmitten features the Pen American author readings: CUFFING FREE SPEECH?
		The PEN American Center recently hosted its "State of Emergency: Unconventional Readings" event at The Cooper Union's Great Hall in New York City.
		So began award-winning novelist and PEN American Center president Salman Rushdie at "State of Emergency: Unconventional Readings," in his opening remarks in the historic Great Hall of The Cooper Union, a haven of free expression in New York's East Village for more than a century.
		PEN American Center, a fellowship of writers dedicated to the advancement of literature, reading, and the defense of free speech, recently invited fifteen writers and artists to a public reading of other writers' works in support of the organization's mission.
	www.wordsmitten.com /2004authors_forfreespeech.htm (1265 words)

	Columbia News ::: Maryse Conde Shares 'Tales from the Heart' of Guadeloupe
		The PEN American Center Open Book Committee's celebration of the publication of Maryse Conde's new memoir, "Tales from the Heart: True Stories From My Childhood," includes a reading by Conde in French, which was co-sponsored by the Small Press Center in Manhattan.
		In an interview with Elizabeth Nunez, the PEN Open Book Committee chairwoman, Conde speaks in English about her childhood in Guadeloupe, the trials of assimilation into the French mother country from the French Caribbean and her 12 years in West Africa.
		She is the author of 10 novels, including "Windward Heights" (2000), "The Children of Segu" (1990) and "I, Tutuba, Black Witch of Salem." At Columbia, she chairs the Center for French and Francophone Studies.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/news/vforum/02/maryseConde (181 words)

	V-Day: PEN American Center Presents: Eve Ensler in Conversation with Azar Nafisi
		PEN American Center Presents the Second in a Series of International Literary Explorations: Eve Ensler in Conversation with Azar Nafisi
		PEN American Center Presents the Second in a Series of International Literary Explorations: Eve Ensler in Conversation with Azar Nafisi with a reading by Shohreh Aghdashloo
		She is Chair of the Women's Committee of PEN American Center and produced What I Want My Words To Do To You, a documentary about the writing group she has led since 1998 at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women.
	www.vday.org /contents/vday/press/releases/0404212 (378 words)

	Straight Up \| Jan Herman:
		The PEN American Center is an association of more than is 2,600 writers and editors.
		It is the largest of nearly 130 PEN Centers worldwide that compose International PEN, which has promoted literature and protected
		PEN has sent a letter to the White House "endorsing strong, targeted measures to confront terrorism and prevent terrorist attacks," but also "pressing for refinements and improvements to the Patriot Act and other post-9/11 security measures to protect privacy, ensure public access to government information, and comply with international law and human rights covenants."
	www.artsjournal.com /herman/archives/2004/05/pen_sends_a_let.html (608 words)

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