Moris Farhi

Moris Farhi

male, 74 years old
Robert Academy, Robert College alumni, Member of the Order of the British Empire, Robert College, InternationalPEN, Order of the British Empire…pen
(Musa) Moris Farhi MBE (born 1935, Ankara, Turkey) has been vice-president of International PEN since 2001. "Education:" Robert Academy '54,...
Homero Aridjis

Homero Aridjis

male, 69 years old
writer, Orion Society, Xavier Villarrutia Prize, InternationalPEN, Michoacán, From Michoacan
Homero Aridjis is a Mexican writer and diplomat. Aridjis was born in Contepec, Michoacán, Mexico, on April 6, 1940, to a Greek father and Mexican m...
Ben Okri

Ben Okri

male, 50 years old
World Economic Forum, crystal award, Commonwealth Writers Prize, magic realist, Magic realism writer, Aga Khan Prize…InternationalPEN, Chianti Rufino-Antico Fattore International
Ben Okri is the same generation as me but our lives couldn't be more different. I'm always intrigued to learn how lives turn out because of one's...

Jiří Gruša

male, 71 years old
writer, czech, diplomat, samizdat, brd, Charles University in Prague…InternationalPEN
Jiří Gruša is a Czech poet, writer, translator, diplomat and politician. He graduated from the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University in Pra...
Nicholas Jose

Nicholas Jose

male, 57 years old
Oxford University, InternationalPEN, Australian National University, pen, university of adelaide, Australian
Nicholas Jose (b. 1952) is an Australian novelist. Born in London, England, to Australian parents, Nicholas Jose grew up mostly in Adelaide, South...
Roya Toloui

Roya Toloui

female, 43 years old
from Baneh, Iranian women's rights activist, journalist, Feminist, Kurdish language, Human rights activist…InternationalPEN, Kurdish PEN
Roya Toloui (1966-), is a prominent Iranian Kurdish journalist, human rights activist and feminist, currently residing in US. She was born in Baneh...
Nguyen Dan Que

Nguyen Dan Que

male, 66 years old
Human rights activist, dissident, Vietnamese democracy activist, communist, Endocrinologist, Human Rights Watch…InternationalPEN
Dr. Nguyen Dan Que is a Vietnamese endocrinologist and pro-democracy campaigner. He is one of the leading dissidents against the communist...

Joan Smith

female, 56 years old
What Will Survive, University of Reading, The Sunday Times, Order of the British Empire, National Secular Society, 2003 invasion of Iraq…InternationalPEN
Joan Alison Smith (born August 27, 1953 in London) is an English novelist, journalist and human rights activist, who is a former chair of the...
Jonathan Heawood

Jonathan Heawood

male
journalist, British, the observer, new statesman, Literary Editor, InternationalPEN
Jonathan Heawood is director of the English Centre of International PEN. He is a former deputy literary editor of "The Observer" and editor of the...
Zaradachet Hajo

Zaradachet Hajo

male
kurdish, Indo-Iranian language, Indo-Iranian languages, Kurdish-language writer, Iranian languages, InternationalPEN…pen
Zaradachet Hajo, (or Zerdeşt Haco is a prominent Kurdish writer, linguist and researcher. He was born in Syria in 1950. He has studied l...