NEW YORK—The third day of the PEN World Voices festival showcased a variety of literary talent from around the world. Among them were Writing In a Majority/Minority Cultural Context: Local Identity vs. a Broader Nation, featuring writers from Quebec, the Ukraine, and Spain.
Among the featured writers were Nadine Bismuth, Nicolas Dickner, Dominique Fortier, Mykola Riabchuk, and Teresa Solana.
During an evening event, Revolutionaries in the Arab World, featured five Arab panelists from Morocco to Egypt who pondered on the meaning of recent uprisings in the Arab world. The panelists included writers, publishers, and journalists Abdelkader Benali, Abdellah Taia, Rula Jebreal, Alex Nunns, and Issandr El Amrani.
The PEN World Voices Festival will continue through May 1. For more information visit www.pen.org.
