A poem written by the late Liu Xiaobo, a poet, critic and Nobel Prize laureate who campaigned for democratic reform in China, to his wife Liu Xia, also a poet, whose situation in China continues to be precarious.

We are excited to introduce our international guest writer for  International Women’s Group Glasgow North Many Voices writing group – Sepideh Jodeyri will join the group led by poet Marjorie Lotfi Gill for their final event in November. Read on to find out more about Sepideh and what attracted to her Many Voices project.

Iain Galbraith received an award by PEN America, but did not attend the ceremony in protest against President Trump’s travel ban. This is his letter.

Marjorie Lotfi Gill explores what censorship means for her when writing about friends, family, and the Iranian Revolution.

Can a piece of text ever be accurately translated? And what are the socio-political implications of this?

Translated writing doesn’t just help us to understand other people and other cultures; it helps us to understand ourselves.

by Madeleine Campbell. This article was originally posted here on the Translation Studies @ Glasgow blog and is being reprinted with permission. — Our guest writer Madeleine Campbell attended a ‘literary duel’ between two translators of a poem by Chiew-Siah Tei. Starting with the titles, the English renditions of the Chinese work were dissected line by line to reveal challenges […]

Simona Grazia Dima is Secretary of Romanian PEN, a poet, essayist, literary critic and translator. In her introduction to her latest volume of poetry she presents the background to her writing – the political and cultural milieu, her ideas, ideals and in particular the extraordinary experience which led her to become the writer that she […]