Shubigi Rao in conversation with Tomislav Medak, one of the initiators of Public Library, a book-sharing online project with the tagline ‘when everyone is a librarian, the library is everywhere’. This...

As an admirable reader of his second novel Masumlar (Innocents) I was looking for an opportunity to meet with Burhan Sonmez in person, but it was not realized until our common friend Moris Farhi put...

PEN/Opp publishes an exclusive interview with author Oksana Zabuzhko, made by Stefan Ingvarsson. At the time for the interview, Oksana Zabuzhko stayed at a writer's residence in the city of Gdańsk...

Ahmed Naji is trying to understand the zeitgeist. In the 36 years of his life he has witnessed dictatorship, revolution, counter-revolution, military coup, jail and exile. Ahmed Naji’s story is unique...

The Tucholsky Prize for 2021 is awarded to the Belarusian poet Dmitry Strotsev. The prize is awarded by Swedish PEN and is handed out today by the Minister for Culture of Sweden in connection to...

Hassan Blasim is a writer, poet, and film director who has been called "perhaps the best living Arab writer.” His international breakthrough was with his acclaimed collection of short stories Iraqi...

This is a shorter version of an interview made by Harmoon Center for Contemporary Studies with the Syrian poet and the Tucholsky prize winner (2007) Faraj Bayrakdar. Bayrakdar, who had first...

“ Can you work in Minsk these days? ” Johan Öberg asks Svetlana Alexievich. He is in Gothenburg, she is in Minsk, and they are speaking in a live interview - the finale of this year ’ s digital...

The academic and activist Ilham Tohti had fought for twenty years for Uyghur rights and to enhance a dialogue between the Uyghur and the Han Chinese, before he was sentenced to lifetime imprisonment...