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PEN Ukraine

Ukrainian PEN is a cultural and human rights non-governmental organization uniting Ukrainian journalists, writers, scientists, publishers, translators, human rights activists.
It is one of the 146 national centers of the International PEN.

PEN activities in Ukraine are aimed at:

  • protection freedom of speech and copyright;
  • popularization of Ukrainian literature and culture;
  • upholding the values and standards of independent journalism and establishing international cultural cooperation.

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Mykhed Oleksandr Mykhed Oleksandr
Writer, curator of art projects, literary critic

The Language of War

Portnikov Vitaly Portnikov Vitaly
Publicist, writer, journalist

The Unknown Country

Lyuty Taras Lyuty Taras
Philosopher, writer, columnist, musician

Winning the War

Statements

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We respond to our people: PEN Ukraine Executive Board statement

We respond to our people: PEN Ukraine Executive Board statement

We, the Executive Board of PEN Ukraine, would like to reiterate our position with regard to cultural events including Ukrainians and Russians. Our position ...

Human rights activists demand immediate hospitalization of unlawfully imprisoned Crimean journalist Iryna Danylovych

Human rights activists demand immediate hospitalization of unlawfully imprisoned Crimean journalist Iryna Danylovych

On March 22, 2023, citizen journalist Iryna Danylovych went on a dry hunger strike in Russian-occupied Crimea as she was not given medical care. The day ...

Human Rights Organizations and Activists Demand Freedom for Maksym Butkevych, a Ukrainian POW, Illegally Sentenced by Russian occupiers

Human Rights Organizations and Activists Demand Freedom for Maksym Butkevych, a Ukrainian POW, Illegally Sentenced by Russian occupiers

On March 10, 2023, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation announced that Ukrainian human rights defender and serviceman Maksym Butkevych, ...

freedom of speech

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Journalists At War. The Monitoring of Russian Occupiers’ Crimes Against Independent Media In 2023 (to be updated)

Journalists At War. The Monitoring of Russian Occupiers’ Crimes Against Independent Media In 2023 (to be updated)

While oppressing independent journalism in its own country, the Kremlin is as well exterminating it at the war Russia is waging against Ukraine. Russian ...

People of Culture Taken Away by the War. 2023

People of Culture Taken Away by the War. 2023

Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the ranks of our heavenly defenders have been replenished with people of art: actors, ...

The Crimean journalist Iryna Danylovych gone on dry hunger strike

The Crimean journalist Iryna Danylovych gone on dry hunger strike

On March 21, the civic journalist Iryna Danylovych who was illegally imprisoned by the Russian occupiers, informed about the beginning of her dry hunger ...

Awards

Vasyl Stus Prize
Yuri Shevelyov Prize
George Gongadze Prize
The European Union Prize for Literature
Drahomán Prize

Vasyl Stus Prize

The Ukrainian PEN has decided to take over the continuation of the Vasyl Stus Prize, founded in 1989 by the Ukrainian Association of Independent Creative Intelligentsia (UANTI) headed by Yevhen Sverstyuk (1928-2014), which was awarded annually on January 14 – St. Basil's Day.

Yuri Shevelyov Prize

The award was founded in 2013.

It is awarded once a year to a Ukrainian author for artistic and scientific essays published during the last year.

George Gongadze Prize

The award was established by PEN Ukraine in partnership with the Kyiv-Mohyla Business School, the Alumni Association of the Kyiv-Mohyla Business School and the Ukrainian Pravda publication.

The European Union Prize for Literature

The European Union Literary Prize is an annual award designed to promote and internationally promote the work of not yet well-known but talented authors of fiction from various European countries.

Drahomán Prize

The prize is awarded once a year to a Ukrainian author for artistic and scientific essays published during the last year.

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Projects

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Library of Ukrainian Pen

Treasures of Ukraine
Treasures of Ukraine
"Svitliy Shlyah": the history of one concentration camp
"Svitliy Shlyah": the history of one concentration camp
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