News, Reviews, and InterviewsNobel laureate Günter Grass passed away in Lübeck, Germany, at the age of eighty-seven. We have a tribute to Grass written by longtime WLTcontributor Theodore Zio…
Deji Olukotun
April 17, 2015- December 20, 2013This week, we published a special interview with Deji Olukotun, the inaugural PEN Freedom to Write Fellow, and one of the nine Neustadt 2013 jurors. In the interview (linked below), Deji spoke about c…
December 12, 2013A Q&A with Deji Olukotun See the full interactive infographics at PEN.org.Deji Olukotun is PEN’s inaugural Freedom to Write Fellow, and he’s helping to lay a universal foundation at all P…
June 18, 2013NEWS RELEASEFor immediate releaseAllyse Sanchez 303-839-1415, ext. [email protected] Robert Con DavisExecutive Director,…
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