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Countdown to the 2022 World Voices Festival—Get Your Tickets Now! ([link removed])


** Wednesday 5/11 - Saturday 5/14
New York City
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Join us in New York City's Greenwich Village from May 11-14 for the premier celebration of international literature in the United States. Featuring over 80 authors from 25 countries, the 2022 World Voices Festival ([link removed]) presents talks, panels, readings, and performances with some of the most stirring and important literary voices of our time, including Natalie Diaz, Jennifer Egan, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Saidiya Hartman, Sheila Heti, Mieko Kawakami, Andrey Kurkov, Eileen Myles, Jason Reynolds, Gary Shteyngart, Leïla Slimani, Alejandro Zambra, and many more.
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Need a reading recommendation? Check out our World Voices Festival-themed reading lists on Bookshop.org—Reconceptualizing Borders ([link removed]) , which includes books on diaspora and borders; Nature, the Gentlest Mother ([link removed]) , which features books on the natural world and our environment, and World Verses ([link removed]) , a poetry-themed reading list.

Call for volunteers: We're still looking for volunteers to help with our events at various venues around New York’s Greenwich Village. There are many roles for volunteers, who help us make the festival run smoothly for authors and audiences. SIGN UP ([link removed]) ›› ([link removed])
Opening Night: An Evening with Abdulrazak Gurnah ([link removed])


** Wednesday 5/11 | 7pm ET
NYU Skirball Center
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Join us for Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah’s first U.S. appearance since his momentous Nobel Prize win last October. The author of 10 critically acclaimed novels, including Paradise (1994), Gravel Heart (2017), and Afterlives (2020), Gurnah has been amplifying, rewriting, and centering subjugated histories for the entirety of his career. His vital writing chronicles an Africa on the brink of change while drawing light on the legacies and consequences of European colonialism. This very special opening night event celebrating Gurnah’s body of work and its place within a vibrant and rich canon of African literature, features readings, performances, and conversation with Booker Prize shortlisted novelist Nadifa Mohamed and others. GET TICKETS ›› ([link removed])

The Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture: Novelist and PEN Ukraine President Andrey Kurkov ([link removed])


** Friday 5/13 | 6:30pm ET
NYU Skirball Center
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In a 2018 lecture, PEN Ukraine President Andrey Kurkov said that “democracy is not eternal if it is not supported and not monitored daily, if we do not appreciate our rights and freedoms.” In recent months, Kurkov—along with the Ukrainian people—have embodied that very spirit and offered inspiration to all who value and struggle for freedom around the world. Kurkov will deliver this year’s Arthur Miller Lecture at the 2022 PEN America World Voices Festival, which will be followed by a conversation with novelist Gary Shteyngart. GET TICKETS ›› ([link removed])

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PEN America’s Prison and Justice Writing program ([link removed]) recently launched Works of Justice, a monthly newsletter and podcast that explores the relationship between writing and incarceration, and challenges current conversations about criminal justice in the United States. The series spotlights key figures, writers, and artists who are reshaping the conversation on mass incarceration, advocacy, and justice in the United States. SIGN UP ›› ([link removed])

SURVEY: Has Your Book Been Banned? ([link removed])
Applications close June 1, 2022
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Are you an author who's had your work challenged or banned in schools? We are inviting authors to share their personal experience of book bans and offer input on fighting the current wave of school censorship. TAKE THE SURVEY ›› ([link removed])


SUBMIT: PEN America's Literary Grants ([link removed])


** Applications close June 1, 2022
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Have a work in progress that could use some support? Submissions are now open for PEN America's Literary Grants. The PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants ([link removed]) , PEN Grant for the English Translation of Italian Literature ([link removed]) , PEN/Phyllis Naylor Grant for Children's and Young Adult Novelists ([link removed]) , and PEN/Jean Stein Grants for Literary Oral History ([link removed]) support writers and translators to continue their important work. Applications close June 1, 2022.

The PEN Ten ([link removed])

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The PEN Ten with Chantal V. Johnson: ([link removed]) “I feel like writing is one part reading, one part living, and one part actually writing. So first: read a lot and read widely. Figure out what you like and don’t like and why. Let your taste guide you as you write. Secondly, do stuff out in the world. Work, please. Get yourself into ridiculous situations, and take notes.”

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The PEN Ten with Mosab Abu Toha: ([link removed]) “A writer must speak on behalf of the unheard, those who cannot articulate well what they feel or see, and most importantly to me, those who lost their lives under the rubble of vicious wars. That’s part of resistance—keeping memories of oneself and others, eternalizing shared feelings in human life.”
From Our Partners
TNR Salon Series With Kim Kelly ([link removed])


** Tuesday 5/10 | 7pm ET
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** Digital Event
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Join The New Republic for a livestream of our Salon book series featuring author Kim Kelly and Laura Marsh, TNR’s literary editor, as they talk about Fight Like Hell, a definitive history of the labor movement and the people who risked everything to win fair wages, better working conditions, disability protections, and an eight-hour workday. Learn more and register here ›› ([link removed])
The Vagrant Trilogy ([link removed])


** April 8 - May 15
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** The Public Theater
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Mona Mansour's THE VAGRANT TRILOGY delves into the Palestinian struggle for home & identity. In 1967, Adham, a Palestinian Wordsworth scholar, goes to London to deliver a lecture. When war breaks out at home, he must decide in an instant what to do—a choice that will affect the rest of his life. More info at publictheater.org/vagrant ([link removed]) ›› ([link removed])
Beautiful Country: An Evening With Qian Julie Wang ([link removed])


** Monday 5/9 | 6:30pm ET
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** The Museum of the City of New York
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Qian Julie Wang, author of the acclaimed memoir Beautiful Country, will deliver the annual Robert A. and Elizabeth R. Jeffe Distinguished Lecture in Urban History, in which she will consider her own childhood journey in the wider context of immigrant narratives in NYC. Following her talk, she will be joined in conversation with poet and cultural critic Ken Chen. Get tickets ›› ([link removed])

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