"I want to sit down with you and talk. I want to ask about your books, about what it was like to build Luật Khoa and The Vietnamese Magazine from nothing. But as you wrote yourself, it is 'too easy'...

The Vietnamese author Phạm Đoan Trang was imprisoned in 2020 after years of harassment. She is now serving a nine-year prison sentence for “propaganda against the state.” PEN/Opp is publishing two...

In the novel The Backstreets by imprisoned Uyghur author Perhat Tursun, a lonely man wanders around Ürümqi in search of a place to spend the night. As he wanders the streets, he reflects on his life...

On 27 March 2025, Swedish author and journalist Joakim Medin is detained at Istanbul airport, where he had travelled to report on the nationwide protests following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor and...

Kurdish poet and journalist Nedim Türfent spent more than six years in Turkish prison for his journalistic work. For PEN/Opp, he describes life behind bars and how letters and literature kept him...