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Shadows and Ghosts: The Evolution of the PEN Charter
An address on PEN International’s 100+ centenary celebrations. PEN was founded in London on October 5, 1921.
Peter D. McDonald
Peter D. McDonald is the author of The Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and its Cultural Consequences (2009), Artefacts of Writing: Ideas of the State and Communities of Letters from Matthew Arnold to Xu Bing (2017), and co-author of PEN: An Illustrated History (2021). He teaches at St Hugh’s College, Oxford.
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Shadows and Ghosts: The Evolution of the PEN Charter
An address on PEN International’s 100+ centenary celebrations. PEN was founded in London on October 5, 1921.