More writers withdraw from PEN America literary awards ...Kuwait

Thirty-one authors and translators have withdrawn their work for consideration or declined to participate in PEN America's 2024 Literary Awards, protesting the organisation's lack of support for Palestinian writers in Gaza. Nine out of the ten writers longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein book award withdrew their books, including Christina Sharpe, Catherine Lacey and Joseph Earl Thomas. Twenty-one withdrawing authors and nine additional writers signed a letter this week calling for the organisation’s CEO, Suzanne Nossel, the president, Jennifer Finney Boylan and the entire executive committee to resign. In an open letter sent to the board of trustees, the writers "wholeh

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