We’re thrilled to announce the winning titles for the inaugural round of #PENPresents x International Booker Prize, an edition of the English PEN award for sample translations, launched with the @thebookerprizes.com to support translators from the Global Majority.
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The winners have been announced for the inaugural @englishpen.bsky.social Presents x International Booker Prize programme, and the six winning projects represent five languages and regions.

Discover the winning translators ⤵️
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We’re thrilled that #PENPresents & #PENTranslates award-winner Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, trans. from the Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi has won the #InternationalBooker2025, the first work translated from Kannada to appear on the @thebookerprizes.bsky.social shortlist. Congratulations to the winners!

📚 Meet Palestinian author Karim Kattan & @willforrester.bsky.social from @englishpen.bsky.social, who will dive into The Palace on the Higher Hill — a story of exile, homecoming & political ghosts

8 May @frenchinstituteuk.bsky.social
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#BeyondWordsFest

In partnership with @thebookerprizes.bsky.social, we’re thrilled to announce the shortlisted translators for the inaugural round of #PENPresents x International Booker Prize, launched to support translators from the Global Majority.

Discover the shortlist ⤵️
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So pleased to share the shortlist for #PENPresents x International Booker Prize – 12 exceptional projects by translators from the Global Majority. 9 languages, 9 regions; firsts from Malay, Filipino and Cebuano.

@thebookerprizes.bsky.social @englishpen.bsky.social
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🚨 Publishers & translators 🚨

We’ve opened for #PENTranslates, #PENPresents and grant assessor applications – all closing 31 May.

Forms & details on our website. Please apply & spread the word!

We're delighted to announce that submissions are now open for the PEN Heaney Prize 2025, in partnership with @irishpen.bsky.social and the Estate of Seamus Heaney, and that this year's judges are Sasha Dugdale, Seán Hewitt and Zaffar Kunial.

Find out more ⤵️
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'I think I just am a writer, and I have to carry on writing while words make sense.'

This week in #PENTransmissions: Jacqueline Wilson on letters, empathy and book bans.

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We're thrilled to partner with @unionchapeluk.bsky.social for an evening with Mahmoud Muna, in conversation with @oliviasnaije.bsky.social. Any profits will go to the Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem.

Join us on Wednesday 12 March at 7.30pm ⤵️
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Thrilled that 3 #PENTranslates titles – Reservoir Bitches, Small Boat, and Heart Lamp, also a #PENPresents winner – feature on the #InternationalBooker2025 longlist. Congrats Scribe, @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social, @andotherstories.bsky.social, Dahlia, Julia, Heather, Vincent, Helen, Banu, Deepa, all!

The English PEN Literary Salon returns to the London Book Fair on Wednesday 12 March 2025 for six panel discussions on the intersections of literature, equity, and freedom of expression. #LBF25

Browse this year’s programme ⤵️
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