PEN World Voices
pen world voice festival international literature annual weeklong literary festival held new york city los angeles festival founded salman rushdie esther allen michael robert launched festival includes event reading conversation debate showcase international literature new writer festival produced pen america nonprofit organization work advance literature promote free expression foster international literary fellowship inaugural event held new york city april april participating author came country included chimamanda ngozi adichie jonathan ames paul auster breyten breytenbach nuruddin farah gish jen ryszard kapuściński khaled mattawa azar nafisi elif shafak wole soyinka ali bader ngũgĩ wa thiongo conversation chico buarque paul auster confronting worst writing catastrophe quixote tribute crossing border universal theme childrens literature literature power international noir power pen writing change anything writer iraq africa world writer’s role conversation hanan alshaykh salman rushdie believer magazine nighttime event postnational writer way love voice new europe czesław miłosz conscience literature pen america offer audio downloads photo select event website issue pen america literary journal also published selection program second world voice festival held new york city april april festival theme faith reason festival featured writer country program international participant included martin amis margaret atwood gioconda belli han magnus enzensberger david grossman ayaan hirsi ali etgar keret elia khoury henning mankell adam michnik orhan pamuk anne provoost zadie smith dương thu hương colm tóibín ko un jeanette winterson immediately following festival bill moyers hosted television series pb entitled faith reason featured participant festival tell story writing myth honor killing family commit murder save face faith politics america elsewhere faith reason writer speak exile america translation globalization limit tolerance multiculturalism fact truth internet woman write world revolution user’s manual idol insult writing religion freedom expression howl year conversation ayaan hirsi ali philip gourevitch suitable child conversation amartya sen salman rushdie pen america offer audio downloads photo select event website late caro llewellyn recruited australia festival director organized third seventh festival founder salman rushdie period saw great growth festival attendance reach guest including nobel prizewinners nadine gordimer orhan pamuk toni morrison mario vargas llosa appeared stage umberto eco salman rushdie event called three musketeer period popular translation slam introduced pen cabaret increased cache guest patti smith saul williams bill jones natalie merchant sam shepard festival also extended reach time satellite event chicago portland albany pittsburgh miami la city extensive program yearround event introduced including first public appearance scholar tariq ramadan since state department ban exclusion united state ramadan appearance took place soldout event april great hall cooper union new york city organized collaboration aclu organized festival director laszlo jakab orsos founder salman rushdie pen world voice festival took place throughout new york city april may featured margaret atwood jennifer egan tony kushner herta müller paul auster giannina braschi martin amis michael cunningham el doctorow colson whitehead highlight included performance metropolitan museum art paired kronos quartet writer tony kushner marjane satrapi rula jebreal explore boundary music literature festivalgoers participated literary safari trolling hall westbeth west village artist community experienced reading range author including elia khoury giannina braschi peter schneider processional art workshop opened festival procession giant bibliomorphic puppet illuminated object projection high line sundown organized festival curatorial chair rob spillman pen world voice festival focused vital issue political period special focus restive relationship gender power taking place new york city may – weeklong festival used lens literature art confront new challenge free expression human rights—issues core pen america’s mission since founding historic moment unprecedented attack core freedom emergence new form resistance festival offered platform global community writer artist thinker connect concerned public fight back bigotry hatred isolationism event featured samantha bee chimamanda ngozi adichie carrie brownstein teju cole masha gessen cecile richards patti smith gabourey sidibe andrew solomon saeed jones many united hate exposure politics sex power portraying gay male life today gender power authoritarianism dystopian age pen v sword satire v state arthur miller lecture masha gessen samantha bee forbidden punktoo queer queer representation medium girlpowered fiction corrosive power female flaneur reclaiming city power art propaganda free speech gender power faith forbidden liberated monkey business japanamerica writer dialogue literary quest tenement edition woman place food power writing water weapon shattering taboo change culture forbidden desirous forbidden much love poetry war pen america recruited chip rolley former artistic director sydney writer festival take position senior director literary program director world voice festival festival featured unprecedented breadth literary cultural luminary banner “resist reimagine” theme captured political division discord apparent u around world well hope energy activism shown people coming together powerful new way resist encroachment right liberty value writer poet artist thinker representing nationality gathered new york city conversation reading debate discussion celebrating best year’s literature covering many different kind resistances—the internal external political personal—in different culture identity community festival featured new stream programming one american voice focused american writer addressing complex polarizing issue u another next generation aimed nurture young people agent change festival participant included celebrated figure laurie anderson paul auster hillary rodham clinton jelani cobb jennifer egan dave egger roxane gay xiaolu guo siri hustvedt ryszard krynicki jhumpa lahiri salman rushdie dag solstad ngũgĩ wa thiong’o colm tóibín colson whitehead many others concluding lecture delivered hillary rodham clinton engaged conversation chimamanda ngozi adichie resist reimagine opening night dave egger mokhtar alkanshali good last drop country young muslim woman playing fire u cry beloved country go border imagination laurie anderson chelsea manning art technology activism evening roxane gay unlived life kexaptun poetry new york’s newest oldest language trick translation reflection violence handmaid america liminal state storm puerto rico poetry resistance still persisted new york story life wartime can’t happen america real imagined arthur miller freedom write lecture hillary rodham clinton chimamanda ngozi adichie word hasan minhaj wajahat ali pen america canceled world voice festival twentyeight nominated author withdrew book consideration annual pen america award ceremony condemned america pen failing strongly condemn called genocide palestine cancellation come day organization canceled annual award festival festival supposed held may new york city los angeles pen america pen world voice festival pen world voice festival rushdie brings pen festival close new york time blog may pen world voice medium library pen world voice medium library pen podcasts bill moyers faith reason series interview blog wild river review