At the Annual Meeting, a new President and Board elected
A new Board of PEN Finland has been elected in its Annual Meeting held on 13 February 2019. Playwright and...
PEN International Fellowship 2018
Mojibur Doftori, PEN Finland’s board member and the chair of its Writers at Risk Committee, was invited as a fellow...
Finnish PEN 90 years at restaurant Dubrovnik 14.11
90 -year-old writers’ freedom of expression association Finnish PEN invites you to celebrate with us! This special evening on Wednesday...
Galal El-Behairy: The Tartan Shirt
Galal El-Behairy’s new poem from behind bars Read in Arabic. The Tartan Shirt Your letter’s tucked away in the...
New information on Galal El-Behairy’s case
Finnish PEN has received new information about the case of the Egyptian poet Galal El-Behairy, who’s currently facing charges in Military...
#FreeGalal poetry demonstration was seen and heard
A group of supporters of the poet Galal El-Behairy gathered in front of the embassy of Egypt in Helsinki to...
Please join us in Helsinki: #FreeGalal demonstration on World Refugee Day 20 June 2018
The 20th of June is UN’s World Refugee Day. It is about sharing responsibility for global issues. Many PEN centres around...
#FreeGalal and Megaphone X at Freedom of Expression Club on 9 June 2018
Freedom of Expression Club: Ramy Essam – Freedom to Sing was organized at Tenho Restobar on Sat 9 June 2018...
Egypt: PEN publishes new work by imprisoned poet Galal El Behairy
Read this article and the poem in Arabic here. Read the Finnish translation by Sampsa Peltonen here. Ahead of the...
Freedom of Expression Club: Ramy Essam – Freedom to Sing 9.6.2018
Tenho Restobar (Helsinginkatu 15, 2nd floor), Saturday 9 June 2018 18–20pm Ramy Essam is a superstar of Arabic rock music,...
Oleg Sentsov on hunger strike – sign Finnish PEN’s online appeal NOW
Ukrainian writer and filmmaker Oleg Sentsov has been on hunger strike since 14 May 2018 to urge the Russian authorities...
Galal El-Behairy: Statement
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, My friends, it is with great sorrow that I...
Egypt’s grim blow on freedom of expression and human rights: the tortured poet Galal El-Behairy must be freed
A Statement by Finnish PEN 8 May 2018 Updated 14 May 2018: More signatories added. Update on 26 June 2018: Galal...
PEN calls for justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia
On World Press Freedom Day 3 May 2018 PEN calls for justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia and the protection of...
Uladzimir Njakljajeu sentenced for 10 days in prison
Free Uladzimir Njakljajeu Statement by Finnish PEN 3.11.2017 The poet and civil rights activist Uladzimir Njakljajeu (Vladimir Neklyaev) has been...
Nordic PEN centers’ protest letter to President Rouhani
Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian and Danish PEN send a letter to Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Nov 2nd to protest the...
Finnish PEN’s resolution on blasphemy accepted in Lviv
Resolutions adopted by the Assembly of Delegates of PEN International, meeting at its 83rd Congress in Lviv, Ukraine, 18 to...
Turkey: The charges against Finnish-Turkish journalist Ayla Albayrak must be dropped
A statement by Finnish PEN, 18.10.2017 Freedom of expression is under serious assault in Turkey and not even journalists of...
Women Writers at Risk 27.9.2017 Arkadia International Bookshop
Finnish PEN organizes a literature event in support of writing women all over the world. Writers Tuuve Aro, Riina Katajavuori,...
The registration to the seminar Priceless Words begins
Priceless Words – The Nordic-Estonian Freedom of Speech Seminar Estonian PEN and the Nordic PEN centres are gathering in Helsinki...