Riku Ryynänen
I am a 40 year old cp disabled poet. In my poetry, I try to make otherness visible, my own...
Roxana Sadvokassova
A curious lazy amoeba who’s never quite sure of own shape, size and content. Born in 1992, Kazakhstan. After having...
Helena Sinervo
Helena Sinervo is a writer, poet and translator who lives in Helsinki. She has published 11 books of poems and...
Olga Spyropoulou
Olga Spyropoulou (b. 1985, Athens) is a Finland-based performance artist, poet, and researcher, utilizing disorder as artistic practice. She is...
Nataliya Teramae
I was born in 1980 and raised until the age of 11 in a state that doesn’t exist anymore –...
Dodou Touray
I was born in The Gambia in 1966 in Banjul. After undergoing training with a governmental newspaper, I worked as...
Kári Tulinius
Kári Tulinius has published two novels, a poetry collection and a chapbook. He’s written more, but not everything is meant...
Ye Yint Thet Zwe
Ye Yint Thet Zwe (born 1965 in Yangon, Myanmar) is a Burmese poet currently based in Helsinki. He studied Myanmar...
Iida Simes: Let us see hope
The murder of Anna Politkovskaya (30.8.1958 – 7.10.2006) was immediately widely noticed by the media worldwide. The murderer shot Politkovskaya...
Pirita Näkkäläjärvi: Hate Speech and Indigenous People Sámi
Freedom of speech of indigenous peoples and hate speech towards indigenous peoples has not been widely studied. Academic literature on...
Nataliya Teramae: The Shell of a Snail
Read the Essay by Nataliya Teramae in Ukrainian. When you emigrate to a foreign country, you automatically start looking for...
Peter Mickwitz: Örnulf Tigerstedt, right-wing radical and president of PEN Finland
Panem et Circenses. Let me toast to your freedom your eight-hour workday, your cultivated soul, your progress and your other...
Judyth Hill: Wage peace
Author and active PEN International member Judyth Hill is visiting Finland’s PEN 5-11.5. In addition to his commitment to freedom...
Writer Judyth Hill is the keynote speaker on Aino Kallas’s name day
Writer and active PEN International member Judyth Hill is visiting Finland. In addition to being a writer, Judyth Hill also...
Nataliya Teramae: How we brought up a dictator
Artists do have the gift of prophesying. For Ulf Stark’s book ‘The Dictator’ Linda Bondestam created a picture of a...
Nobel Laureates, writers and artists worldwide condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
(Read in Ukrainian, Russian, Arabic.) To our friends and colleagues in Ukraine, We, writers around the world, are appalled by the violence...
To hear the Sámi voices, Discussion on December 13th, 2021, via Zoom
In recent years, there has been a lot of hate speech and racist intimidation against the Sámi, especially on the...
Discussion on the situation in Afghanistan at the Tampere Book Fair
AFGHANISTAN: FLEE OR DIE Sunday 5.12. 12.00-13.00 The Tampere Book Fair – Book Festival When the Taliban took power in...
PEN International 100 years. Discussion at Helsinki Book Fair
Helsinki Book Fair: Sat 30.10. klo 18.30 Hakaniemi-lava: ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF WORK FOR GLOBAL FREEDOM OF SPEECH – PEN...
Sulava: The Multilingual Literature of Finland has been published by Finnish PEN
Sulava – The Multilingual Literature of Finland: Compilation offers a view of the diversity of languages within Finnish literature and,...