«Va ser una trobada serendípica, perquè en aquell moment no podíem imaginar que al cap d’un any tu fundaries amb Salman Rushdie el WorldVoices Festival de Nova York, dedicat a la literatura en traducció, i jo m’hauria posat al capdavant del programa de traduccions de l’Institut Ramon Llull»

Today, I vetoed the Russian law. This law, in its essence and spirit, is fundamentally Russian, contradicting our constitution and all European standards. It thus represents an obstacle to our European path.

This law must be repealed!

Moving ceremony in Huesca this morning unveiling memorial to George Orwell remembering his time fighting on Aragón front against fascism, his son emotional at end.
Thanks to tireless work of Victor Pardo, and also Orwell Society and numerous indv donations.
Also Anda Jaleo live

Worth listening to Timothy Snyder in Tallinn 🇪🇪 yesterday: We are in 1938 now. If Czechs had resisted Nazi Germany at the time, there would have been no WWII. If Ukraine gives up or we give up 🇺🇦 we will move to 1939. Ukraine helps us to extend 1938.

Aquest maig Carles Torner escriu a la traductora Esther Allen, que va declinar el premi de traducció PEN/Manheim per denunciar el silenci del PEN Americà davant la situació de Gaza.

Podeu llegir la carta aquí 👇
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May 18 marks the tragic memorial day of the mass deportation of the Crimean Tatars. The ethnic cleansing of the peninsula was carried out by the order of Stalin. More than 46% of the deportees died of the inhuman transportation conditions and the poverty of the first years.

We need to support each other in this fight. Because only spreading freedom makes our world safer.

Your fight is our fight 🇺🇦 🇬🇪

Ha sortit a L'Espill 'Literatures ibèriques: visibilitat i reconeixement', dossier coordinat amb Simona Škrabec pel projecte ESCORE project 📚 Amb textos de Santi Pérez Isasi 🔻 enriquesantosunamuno i una gran peça conjunta d'Even-Zohar, Monegal i Torres Feijóo
cc Agencia Estatal de Investigación Humanitats UPF

And there you are: this is what a smart, responsable leader sounds like.

Listen to this insightful part of our interview with Volodymyr Yermolenko from UkraineWorld on how enslaving of Ukrainians has being ignored by Western colonialism studies out of rigid and narrow understanding of colonialism. The full interview is under a link below ⬇️

Shocked and appalled by the unfair sentencing of #SelahattinDemirtaş to 42 years in prison. Demirtaş has already been unjustly detained for 7.5 years, far away from his family and loved ones. We once again urge his immediate and unconditional release #FreeDemirtaş

Kateryna Kalytko, poet, translator, author and board member of PEN Ukraine shared this poem as part of Quotes on War: 20 Ukrainian Writers Reflect on the War. Learn more: pen-international.org/news/quotes-on… #Ukraine

We condemn the sentencing of writer and honorary PEN member #SelahattinDemirtaş to 42 years in prison. This verdict is yet another tragedy for the rule of law in #Türkiye . We continue to stand alongside Demirtaş and all unfairly imprisoned writers until they are free.

Two days ago, I met with the Pope and in this thread I'll tell you more about this meeting

We condemn #Georgia ’s parliament’s decision to approve a Russia-style ‘foreign agents’ law despite mass protests marred by police violence and brutal assaults against peaceful protestors. All those responsible must be held to account and the repressive legislation urgently

#Guatemala 🇬🇹 Mañana, 15 de mayo, el periodista José Rubén Zamora Marroquín se presentará en tribunales nuevamente. PEN International estará presente como observador internacional y pide a las autoridades iniciar el jucio, retrasado por meses. #FreeZamora 🧵
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Sabia que aquest article tard o d'hora l'hauria d'escriure i, així i tot, és una mort que fa mal, perquè de cop et torna al cap algun dels seus relats magistrals...
Descansi en pau, Alice Munro.
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Acabem de saber que ha mort Alice Munro. Si no l’heu llegida, us espera un continent per explorar. Podeu començar pel conte ‘Nit’, del seu últim llibre, ‘Estimada vida’. Nosaltres el durem sempre a la memòria com un record propi. vilaweb.cat/noticia/409623…

El professor EUSEBI AYENSA PRAT ens va regalar ahir una sessió memorable sobre la poesia de #Kavafis .

Today marked a special, almost sacred event to me: the very first grammar of Lude, a tiny Finno-Ugric language got published.
It got published with the help of the NGO I lead, Hõimulõimed. It was 1,5 years of painstaking work, and it was today it saw the light of day.