Dear Friend —
We are thrilled to welcome you to the opening day of the 2022 PEN America World Voices Festival. After two years of holding the Festival virtually, it’s an exciting and momentous occasion for us. And as a special promotional offer for our email newsletter subscribers, we're offering a discount of 25% off tickets for select events (use code GENWVF22 at checkout).
The premier celebration of international literature in the U.S., this year’s Festival features 80 writers from 25 countries. We kick off with tonight’s Opening Night Event with Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, in his first U.S. appearance since his momentous Nobel Prize win last October. This event celebrating Gurnah’s body of work will also include Booker Prize-shortlisted novelist Nadifa Mohamed, Windham Campbell Literature Prize winner Aminatta Forna, acclaimed actor Esau Pritchett, Sudanese American musician Alsarah, and others.
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We hope you’ll join us for this very special opening night event (and for our afterparty at Carroll Place, included with event ticket), and for all of our incredible events this week, featuring readings, performances, conversations, and exchanges with some of the most important literary voices of our time.
In our current moment of censorship, book bans, and cultural clashes around the world, it feels particularly important and timely that we’re coming together now to celebrate the power of storytelling. Thank you for making this year’s Festival possible, and we hope to see you at our events this week.
See you at the Festival,
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Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf
Senior Director, Literary Programs
PEN America
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