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Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. A Ukranian journalist imprisoned in Crimea will be honoured next month at the PEN America gala. Vladyslav Yesypenko, arrested last year and sentenced recently to six years in a Russian labor camp for alleged possession and transport of explosives, is this years recipient of the PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award. World News | Imprisoned Ukranian Journalist to Be Honoured by PEN America.

The Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights (RWCHR) and PEN America filed a complaint with the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to hold Iran accountable for a pattern of targeting and imprisoning members of the Iranian Writers’ Association (IWA), the leading free expression advocacy group representing writers in Iran.

An effort in Iowa to charge teachers and librarians with a felony if they make purportedly obscene works available to minors. And other news and notes from the world of books.

Abtin, jailed for security charges, was a joint winner of the 2021 PEN / Barbey Freedom to Write Award.Tehran, Iran - Iranian poet and filmmaker Bakta

NEW YORK (AP) — PEN America held one of New York's first major indoor literary gatherings since the pandemic began last year, as hundreds met Tuesday night for the organization's annual gala to honor writers, community servants, political dissidents and such prominent public figures as Walt Disney executive chair Robert A. Iger.

PEN America held one of New York’s first major indoor literary gatherings since the pandemic began last year, as hundreds met Tuesday night for the organization’s annual gala to honor writers, community servants, political dissidents and such prominent public figures as Walt Disney executive chair Robert A. Iger. After a virtual ceremony in 2020, attendees…

Jodie Foster looked like Audrey Hepburns character Holly Golightly from Breakfast At Tiffanys when in a black cocktail dress. She was at the PEN America Literary Gala in New York City.

Literati and Hollywood royalty alike were back at the American Museum of Natural History in New York on October 5 for the PEN America Literary Gala, one of the first major indoor and in-person events held by a literary institution since the pandemic began.

Hathloul has been in prison for more than 1,000 days, where her family says she endured torture