PEN International

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Occupation Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
After the founding, CADS remained essential to the organization and smooth functioning of PEN . As writers from war-torn Europe poured into London, they often sought her out first to gain an entrée into literary society.
Occupation Margaret Atwood
Later, in 1982-3, MA was President of the Writers' Union of Canada . She was President of the Canadian branch of PEN International in 1984-6. She became a Vice-President of Pen International on 11 July...
Occupation Jane Gardam
In 1951 she took a job with the Red Cross , working as a travelling librarian visiting and servicing hospital libraries. She then moved into journalism, becoming a sub-editor on Weldon Ladies Journal in 1952...
Occupation Rosamond Lehmann
She had already put in four years as president of the English Centre of PEN International and had chaired its Writers in Prison Committee .
Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus, 2002.
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Occupation Gladys Henrietta Schütze
Having, as a member from its early years of the P. E. N. Club (later PEN International), supported writers persecuted for their opinions, GHS began in the 1930s to work for refugees from Nazi Germany...
Occupation Nina Bawden
NB sat on various literary committees: PEN International , the Society of Authors , and the Royal Society of Literature . She was president of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists , following in...
Occupation Bernice Rubens
As a writer she was an assiduous attender of literary festivals, a virtuoso reader of her own and other authors' work.
Kennedy, Maev. “Booker winner Bernice Rubens dies”. Guardian Unlimited, 14 Oct. 2004.
She tells a story from her whoring or book-promotion days of sitting beside Edna O'Brien
Occupation Cecily Mackworth
While in Palestine in 1947-8 CM was working as a correspondent for Paris Presse and L'Aube. She was Middle East correspondent for both these papers during the next couple of years. She and Clare Hollingworth
politics Joanna Cannan
JC belonged to the English Centre of International PEN , the worldwide association of writers.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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politics Evelyn Sharp
Both kept up their political activity during the 1930s with active membership of such organizations as the National Council for Civil Liberties (whose first executive committee Sharp sat on) and of PEN International . Even...
politics Lettice Cooper
LC was president of International PEN , having already served first on the executive committee and then as chair of English PEN .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993.
politics Harold Pinter
As to international politics, Pinter spoke out against the forcible, USA-backed ousting of President Salvador Allende of Chile in September 1973. Like his second wife, he was a strong supporter of PEN International . The...
politics Anita Desai
She is a member of PEN International ,
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
4563 (14 September 1990): 972
and has consistently spoken out against political oppression and punishment of writers opposing their national governments.
politics Violet Hunt
During the summer and autumn of 1921, VH helped her friend and colleague C. A. Sappho Dawson Scott with the establishment of the P.E.N. Club (later PEN International ), originally a writers' association designed to...
politics Storm Jameson
Jameson described the 1933 Labour Conference at Hastings as haunted by the ghost of German Social Democracy, in the shape usually of a young doctor or lawyer, with a pale intelligent face, and no money...

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