Zaradachet Hajo

Zaradachet Hajo

male
kurdish, Indo-Iranian language, Indo-Iranian languages, Kurdish-language writer, Iranian languages, International PEN…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...
Samir El-Youssef

Samir El-Youssef

male, 44 years old
writer, palestinian, swedish, pen, University of London, International PEN
Samir El-Youssef (Samir El Youssef, Samir el youssef) is a Palestinian writer and critic, who was born in 1965 in Rashidia, a Palestinian refugee...
Lokman Polat

Lokman Polat

male
kurdish, pen, Kurdish language, Diyarbakır, lice, Kurdish-language writer
Lokman Polat, is a Kurdish writer. He was born in "Licê" around Diyarbakır in south-eastern Turkey. Before 1980, he was involved in publishing po...

Chen Maiping

male, 57 years old
Translator, English, swedish language, writer, pen, Chinese language…pen name, International PEN
Chen Maiping is a Chinese writer, known by the pen name Wan Zhi (万之). He has written mostly short stories, and has also translated literature from...
Gregory Norminton

Gregory Norminton

male, 33 years old
Alumni of Regent's Park College, Oxford, From Ascot, Wellington College, Berkshire, International PEN, Member of Regent's Park College, Oxford, Regent's Park College, Oxford…pen
Gregory Norminton is a novelist and environmental activist born at Ascot, Berkshire, in 1976. He read English at Regent's Park College, Oxford and...
Hamzah Fansuri

Hamzah Fansuri

male, deceased (1590)
soul, Acehnese, pen, hajj, Islamic scholar, indonesian
Hamzah Fansuri (also spelled Hamzah Pansuri, d. c. 1590) was a famous Sumatran Sufi writer, the first to pen mystical panentheistic ideas into the...
Raoul Auernheimer

Raoul Auernheimer

male
writer, Austrian, dachau concentration camp, pen, Abitur, Neuen Freien Presse…International PEN
Raoul Auernheimer was an Austrian jurist and writer. Auernheimer was the son of German businessman Johann Wilhelm Auernheimer and his Hungarian...
Liang Fa

Liang Fa

male, deceased (1855)
Christian missionary in China, bible, minister, macau, Printing, pen
Liang Fa (梁發 1789 - 1855) was the first Chinese Protestant minister and evangelist. He was ordained by Robert Morrison, the first Protestant miss...
Robert von Dassanowsky

Robert von Dassanowsky

male, 49 years old
University of California, Los Angeles, American, writer, German, Playwright, UCLA…pen, International PEN
Robert von Dassanowsky (aka Robert Dassanowsky) born January 28, 1960 in New York, is an Austrian-American academic, writer, film and cultural...

Helen Cruickshank

female, deceased (1975)
Scots language, Scottish, suffragist, civil service, Lallans poet, suffragette…pen
Helen Burness Cruickshank (15 May 1886 - 2 March 1975) was a minor Scottish poet and suffragette, better known for being a focal point of the...