PEN Belarus launched a new website to highlight work that is being censored in their country, highlighting a growing campaign against free expression.
Interview: Egypt’s Ahmed Bedeir on the Prix Voltaire
Dar El Shorouk’s view: IPA’s award tells courageous publishers that ‘a global community sees them, values them, and stands with them.’
At Norway’s WEXFO, a Vow To Fight ‘Disinformation, Censorship, Polarization’
Urgently essential ‘higher-level reading’ and a new construct built on democracy and literacy, ‘Dem Read,’ came into focus at WEXFO.
IPA’s Prix Voltaire: Dmitri Strotsev and Nadia Kandrusevich
Dmitri Strotsev of the Hochroth Minsk and Nadia Kandrusevich of Koska are the 2025 Prix Voltaire laureates.
The IPA Prix Voltaire Announces Its 2025 Shortlist
Supporting ‘rights that we constantly must fight for,’ this year’s IPA Prix Voltaire shortlistees come from five international markets.
Freedom to Publish: AAP Awards Belarus’ Januškevič Press
The Association of American Publishers honors a Belarusian publishing house working from Poland in exile for the freedom to publish.
#FreeAllWords Now Has 71 Translators from 24 Nations
Bialiatski and more: The #FreeAllWords initiative, new this year, focuses on translating the work of Ukrainian and Belarusian writers.
Publishing Persecuted and War-Affected Authors: Europe’s #FreeAllWords
The new #FreeAllWords initiative is an effort by European writers and translators to publish Ukrainian and Belarusian writings.
PEN ‘Freedom to Write’: 277 Writers, Intellectuals Jailed in 36 Nations
An alarming follow-up to the February 2021 Myanmar coup d’état: Yangon moves into the Top 10 Freedom to Write Index offenders.
IPA’s Prix Voltaire Ceremony at Guadalajara: Grief, Outrage, Honor
‘Tonight, Lokman and Lebanon are having a drink with Voltaire,’ the Prix Voltaire laureate Rasha Al Ameer tells her Guadalajara audience.