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We're just days away from the 2022 PEN World Voices Festival ([link removed]) ! There's still time for you to get tickets. We're so excited to bring you over 30 cross-cultural exchanges, panel discussions, readings, and performances across New York City's Greenwich Village, featuring some of the most resonant international literary voices of our time, including Natalie Diaz, Jennifer Egan, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Saidiya Hartman, Sheila Heti, Andrey Kurkov, Eileen Myles, Jason Reynolds, Gary Shteyngart, Leïla Slimani, Alejandro Zambra, and many more. We hope you'll join us for events like:
Opening Night: An Evening with Nobel Laureate 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. Gurnah's vital writing chronicles an Africa on the brink of change while shedding 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, Windham Campbell Literature Prize winner Aminatta Forna, acclaimed actor Esau Pritchett, Sudanese American musician Alsarah, and others. GET TICKETS ›› ([link removed])

Afterparty admission included with event ticket (Carroll Place, 157 Bleecker St, New York, NY 10012).

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. Ukrainian poet and translator Iya Kiva will kick off the event with a reading, after which Kurkov will deliver this year’s Arthur Miller Lecture. The lecture will be followed by an interview with novelist Gary Shteyngart and Q&A. GET TICKETS ›› ([link removed])

5pm pre-event reception admission included with event ticket.

PEN Letters: A Centenary Celebration ([link removed])
Saturday 5/14 | 6pm ET
Joe's Pub
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Join us for a 100-year journey through archival letters, notes, and speeches detailing PEN America's history, featuring Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Isaac Fitzgerald, Jewher Ilham, and Meghan O’Rourke. We'll revisit the words of Toni Morrison, Jack Kerouac, Larry Kramer, Don DeLillo, Grace Paley, Margaret Atwood, Robert Frost, Susan Sontag, Mary McCarthy, Kurt Vonnegut, and many others, as we uncover moments in history when writers mobilized to defend expression and debate artists’ responsibility in the fight for a free and open exchange of ideas. GET TICKETS ›› ([link removed])

Closing Night: An Evening of Forbidden Books ([link removed])
Saturday 5/14 | 8pm ET
Judson Memorial Church
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In response to the recent onslaught of book bans across the country, PEN America is convening a celebration of the freedom to write, read, and think featuring dramatic readings from some of the most “dangerous” texts ever printed, from writers including Toni Morrison, Art Spiegelman, Kurt Vonnegut, and more. Wajahat Ali, New York Times contributing op-ed writer, public speaker and author of the recently published book Go Back to Where You Came From will host this star-studded gathering, featuring a vast array of writers and artists, including Molly Crabapple, V (formerly Eve Ensler), Eileen Myles, Jason Reynolds, Tochi Onyebuchi, and many others. Presented in collaboration with the PEN America’s Children’s and Young Adult Book Committee and Free Expression and Education Program. GET TICKETS ›› ([link removed])

Afterparty admission included with ticket (Alphabet Bar & Cafe, Moxy East Village, 112 E 11th Street, New York, NY 10003).

Learn more about the festival, browse the events schedule, and purchase your tickets at pen.org/festival ([link removed]) .

See you there!
PEN America


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The World Voices Festival is back—live and in person. Get your tickets now. ([link removed])

Featured Festival authors this year include: Natalie Diaz, Jennifer Egan, Abdulrazak Gurna, Saidiya Hartman, Sheila Heti, Mieko Kawakami, Andrey Kurkov, Eileen Myles, Jason Reynolds, Warsan Shire, Gary Shteyngart, Leïla Slimani, Alejandro Zambra, and many more.

Join us from May 11–14, 2022 for cross-cultural exchanges ranging from lively debates that delve into the most pressing issues of our time to intimate conversations that awaken us to the beauty and power of literature. Over four days, 80+ writers from 25 countries will be featured in engaging talks, panels, readings, and performances in New York City’s Village and greater Los Angeles.

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