2009 PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature

PEN World Voices 2009 6 days. 160 writers.

A stellar line-up of established and emerging authors from 40 countries take the stage in venues across the city for 6 packed days of conversations, panels, performances and readings. In this year of landmark anniversaries—Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (1859), the Cuban Revolution (1959), the collapse of Communism across Eastern Europe (1989), and Tiananmen Square (1989)—writers from around the globe consider how the world changes and how we change.

2009 Festival Program

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