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Authors and translators say PEN America has ‘had no criticism of American complicity in the bombardment of Gaza’, in stark contrast to other national centres of the organisation Thirty-one authors and translators have withdrawn their work from consideration for or declined PEN America’s 2024 literary awards over the organisation’s “failure to protect” Palestinian writers in Gaza.Nine out of 10 longlistees for the PEN/Jean Stein...

Imogen Wade’s The Time I Was Mugged in New York City impresses judges for ‘lyricism in the account of an abduction’• Scroll down to read the winning poemA poem inspired by the author’s experience of being mugged has won the first prize of £5,000 in the National Poetry Competition.The Time I Was Mugged in New York City by Imogen Wade tells the story of...