We stand with Salman Rushdie

We stand with Salman Rushdie

Creative Commons licenced image – author CK The assassination attempt on Salman Rushdie is an attack on freedom of expression.  In it there is a warning and a lesson! PEN Centres in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth strongly and unreservedly condemn the attempt to kill...
Video of Farewell to Frank Moorhouse

Video of Farewell to Frank Moorhouse

In this moving ceremony Frank’s brother Arthur joined by many of his personal and professional friends paid tribute to his originality, creativity and deep commitment to social justice, including authors’ rights, and to his deep sense of fun. Frank was a...
Kurdish PEN Centre in exile in Germany

Kurdish PEN Centre in exile in Germany

Dear friends and comrades in Kurdish PEN, Please accept our warmest greetings from PEN Sydney. We would like to extend our congratulations for your conference and wish you success and great policies and plans for the years ahead. It is disturbing to hear that you are...
We stand with Maria Ressa and Rappler

We stand with Maria Ressa and Rappler

Sydney PEN joins with PEN International and the Philippine PEN Center in expressing its gravest concern over the recent conviction of journalists Maria Ressa and Reynaldo Santos Jr. of cyber libel for a 2012 article. Questions of constitutionality aside, this action...
Frank Moorhouse 1938-2022: From local views to big news

Frank Moorhouse 1938-2022: From local views to big news

Photo credit: Kylie Melinda Smith Frank Moorhouse structured his 2005 semi-fictional memoir Martini around his favourite drink. He was fascinated by the rituals and rules for living well that the martini symbolised. In Martini, he satirises the ritualism of the drink...
Vale Frank Moorhouse

Vale Frank Moorhouse

Sydney PEN is saddened to hear of the death of acclaimed writer Frank Moorhouse, a long time supporter of PEN and, since 2005, a member of our Distinguished Writers’ group. As Angelo Loukakis, a member of the Australian Society of Authors and former committee member...
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