After weeks of controversy over its response to the war in Gaza, the free speech nonprofit PEN America has decided to cancel its annual literary awards ceremony, which had been set to take place ...

By Jennifer Schuessler The free expression group PEN America has canceled its 2024 literary awards ceremony following months of escalating protests over the organization’s response to the war in ...

Following criticism of the organization’s response to the Israel-Hamas war, PEN America has canceled its annual awards ceremony recognizing outstanding literature. Of the 61 authors and ...

Prominent literary organization PEN America has canceled its annual awards ceremony, which was due to ... "Statements Aren't Aggressive" The decision to cancel the awards comes in the wake of ...

PEN America has canceled its 2024 Literary Awards ceremony, which was previously scheduled to be held at the Town Hall in New York City on April 29, although some awards will still be conferred.

April 29 along with the other prizes in PEN America's annual literary awards ceremony. But the event was canceled when nearly half of the writers and translators nominated withdrew their books ...

PEN America has cancelled its annual literary awards ceremony after nearly half of the writers and translators nominated withdrew their books from consideration. The awards will still be granted ...

The award ceremony was scheduled to take ... of support for Palestinian writers through a PEN emergency fund. Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf, PEN America’s literary programming chief officer, announced ...

On Friday, PEN America, the largest writers advocacy ... PEN also cancelled its literary awards ceremony in New York after 28 of the 61 nominees refused to be considered for awards.

The decision to cancel the awards comes in the wake of escalating ... Although there will be no ceremony this year, PEN America said it “is honored to recognize the career achievement winners ...