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PEN World Voices Festival

On the C-SPAN Networks:
PEN World Voices Festival has hosted 13 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 2005 Forum. The year with the most events was 2010 with three events. The year with the highest average number of views per video was 2015 with an average of 1,992 views per video. Most appearances with Salman Rushdie (4), Kwame Anthony Appiah (2), Wole Soyinka (2). Most common tags: Arts & Literature, Religious Issues, Censorship.

Recent Programs

May 1, 2016
Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture

Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist and other books, delivered the Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture at the PEN World Voi…
May 10, 2015
Freedom to Write Lecture

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie delivered the 2015 PEN World Voices Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture and then participated in …
May 1, 2011
2011 PEN Freedom to Write Lecture

Nigerian author Wole Soyinka talked about censorship and “a writer’s purpose and responsibility in a climate of forced silenc…
July 28, 2011
The Writer's Imagination and the Imagination of the State

In honor of a PEN conference organized by Norman Mailer 25 years ago, writers discussed how governments can work together acr…