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The Orphans of Europe

Anka Upala is a well-known contemporary Belarusian writer. Her pseudonym is a reference to Janka Kupala, a classic writer of Belarusian literature. Upala had to leave Belarus because of the...

Anka Upala January 02 2025
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Power of the Pen

Since December 2022, Louis D.Hall has been working as a manager for NGO Insulate Ukraine. The NGO creates shatterproof, insulating windows for civilians living in the war-torn areas. For PEN/Opp he...

Text: Louis D. Hall December 30 2024
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I Was Born Into the possibility of a New World

Ege Dündar was only 19 when his father was imprisoned in Turkey and his life took a different turn. For PEN/Opp he writes about the escape, repression and attacks on his family, but also about the...

Text: Ege Dündar December 30 2024
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Notes on Facebook, September 2023

In September 2023, poet Galina Rymbu writes a post on social media. The text moves between Omsk and Lviv and is an attempt to make visible how identities are created and reformulated in relation to...

Galina Rymbu November 11 2024
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Silence

Poetry and photography may at first glance seem like completely different forms of art. However, we often speak of poetry as something that conveys images. And poetry and photography have the...

Tatiyaas Filippova October 22 2024
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People and Languages Reduced to Tourist Brochures

To regional officials and entrepreneurs, the relatively unknown linguistic and ethnic diversity within the Russian Federation is a great resource. Travel agencies use enticing terms like “northern...

Text: Stefan Ingvarsson Translation: Anna Hörnell October 17 2024
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How We Stand On and On

From the 1910 Women's Movement to Jîna Mahsa Amini: Over a Century of Struggle for Women's Rights and liberations in Iran. This text is written under pseudonym.

Farah Farnum September 18 2024
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Message from Narges Mohammadi

Message from Narges Mohammadi, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, on the Second Anniversary of Mahsa Jîna Amini's Death and the Start of the ‘Women, Life, Freedom’ Movement.

Narges Mohammadi September 16 2024
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Language for dreams and farewells

I was visiting my relatives. My aunt gave me a farewell present of reindeer tongues, a wonderful gift, as they are very...

Neseine June 04 2024
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Between

Where does being in the middle take place? Perhaps between novruz and christmas, different geographical places, between two languages where one of them brings literature but first after cutting up the...

Egana Jabbarova April 30 2024

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