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Report: PEN International Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee Annual Meeting in Inari 4–7 June 2024

Finnish PEN organized International Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee Meeting in Inari. The theme was Dialogues in Sápmi – Making...

/ 4 December 2024
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PEN-TLRC Statement on Sámi Language and Literature

Gathered in the Sámi capital of Aanaar / Aanar / Anár (Inari), where three Sámi languages converge, the members of...

/ 13 November 2024
Minna Castren

Minna Castrén: Promoting literature and reading is a fight for freedom of expression

Minna Castrén’s text is only in Finnish and Swedish.

/ 15 July 2024

Matteo Stocchetti: Freedom of expression is not enough

To strengthen democracy, we need communicative competences. The idea that freedom of expression is one of the fundamental democratic freedoms...

/ 3 April 2024
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Laura Lindstedt: The writer’s freedom of expression in a world dominated by spectacle

What comes to mind from the words “writer’s freedom of expression”? Do you think of imprisoned, exiled or murdered writers,...

/ 28 February 2024
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Oula-Antti Labba: The decade of indigenous languages is also significant for freedom of expression

The Sámi indigenous peoples celebrate their National Day on 6 February. At the same time the decade of indigenous languages...

/ 6 February 2024
Janne Huuskonen

Janne Huuskonen: The authorities must respect the law

Freedom of expression allows criticism of those in power. Politicians have a broad right to freedom of expression, perhaps even...

/ 1 February 2024

Sulava audiocollection in Finnish and in English

“Sulava – Multilingual literature in Finland” published by Suomen PEN in 2021 contains texts by 22 authors in 15 different...

/ 23 December 2023
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Peter Mickwitz: A trip to Ukraine

The last week of October I travelled to Kyiv, Ukraine together with representatives for the Nordic PEN centres, PEN Berlin,...

/ 22 November 2023

Inger-Mari Aikio

I have worked as a freelance artist since 2008. Before that, I was a journalist for a magazine and on...

/ 10 November 2023

Gag Baani

I was forced to leave the country after spending 45 years in a small village ‘Gag’ in the backward part...

/ 10 November 2023

Csilla Csépke

Csilla Csépke is a Helsinki based writer from Hungary. She was born in the stern winter of 1986 in Budapest,...

/ 10 November 2023

Muhaned Durubi

Muhaned Durubi (born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1979) is a visual artist and a poet who lives in Helsinki. In...

/ 10 November 2023

Zoila Forss

Zoila Forss-Crespo Moreyra was born in Lima, Peru, on April 18, 1969. In 1995 Forss received her BA in Communications...

/ 10 November 2023

Yaseen Ghaleb

Yaseen Ghaleb Aldhadi, is an Iraqi writer who is currently based in Helsinki, Finland since 2015. In 2005 he graduated...

/ 10 November 2023

Saad Hadi

Saad Hadi is an Iraqi writer, journalist, and visual artist born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1956. He holds a master’s...

/ 10 November 2023

Farzaneh Hatami Landi

Farzaneh Hatami Landi (b.1964) is from southern Iran. She came to Finland in 1990 and completed her technology studies at...

/ 10 November 2023

Susinukke Kosola

Daniil Kozlov (b. 1991), artist named Susinukke Kosola, is a St. Petersburg-born writer living in Turku and a mixed worker...

/ 10 November 2023

Elena Lapina-Balk

Elena Lapina-Balk is a writer who was born in St. Petersburg. Having received a university degree from the Leningrad Institute...

/ 10 November 2023

Shashank Mane

Born in Mumbai, India, I have travelled and lived around the world from a young age. Spending years in Geneva,...

/ 10 November 2023