Editorial When Hatred Becomes the Air We Breathe What is hate speech? Hate speech differs from any other use of language since it is used only to threaten, silence, and... Text: Casia Bromberg September 17 2020
Editorial Who is Dancing in the Shadow of Corona? Who is Dancing in the Shadow of Corona? Perhaps I have never been so thoroughly reminded of my privileges as I have been... Text: Casia Bromberg June 10 2020
Editorial Testimonials we must acknowledge Imagine that you are in exile. In your home country your father has just passed away and the only way for you to say... Text: Elnaz Baghlanian April 06 2020
Editorial New wave of Internet censorship What would happen if the Internet was shut down? Many of us may have played with the idea and perhaps despaired over the... Text: Elnaz Baghlanian January 12 2020
Editorial Welcome to PEN/Opp To have been part of the emergence and growth of The Dissident Blog as from 2011 has been a schooling in the art of the... Text: Elnaz Baghlanian October 18 2019
Editorial Voices from Hong Kong with China in View When we started up PEN/Opp in 2011 our ambition was to create a forum for people to tell stories that relate to the... Text: Elnaz Baghlanian June 14 2019
Editorial Texts about Hope In April 2015 PEN/Opp had texts about Eritrea and Ethiopia, and among the contributors was Reeyot Alemu, the much... Text: Elnaz Baghlanian May 03 2019
Editorial Liberating Writing from Venezuela Reading the newspapers in Venezuela or hearing the news on television or radio you may well get the impression that... Text: Elnaz Baghlanian January 22 2019
Editorial Gender-based censorship’s various disguises “But, you may say, we asked you to write about women and fiction—what has that got to do with a room of one’s own?” So... Text: Elnaz Baghlanian November 29 2018
Editorial Words Widen our World When the Arab Spring started in Tunisia in 2011 and rapidly spread to the rest of the Arab world many of us saw this as... TEXT: Jesper Bengtsson September 11 2018
Editorial Hungary’s soft authoritarianism PEN/Opp on EU's black sheep, one month ahead of the parliament elections TEXT: Elisabeth Åsbrink March 14 2018
Editorial People who love Some people want to organize the world according to their own longing for order and their own definition of purity, as... TEXT Elisabeth Åsbrink Translation December 19 2017
Editorial The Words Behind Bars It was an obvious decision to devote this PEN/Opp to Turkey. Since July 2016 we have seen a steady stream of writers... Text: Elisabeth Åsbrink September 21 2017
Editorial A public literary sphere under construction We all know that large parts of the world have poor international media coverage. We also know that history is always in... Text: Ola Larsmo April 18 2017
Editorial Why does Nationalism Seem to Exclude a Free Debate? Nine years ago, in October 2007, Pen International presented a report called “Insult and Defamation” that deals with how... Text: Ola Larsmo September 17 2016
