Freedom to Write
The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 5, 2021
Suzanne Nossel, CEO of PEN America, and Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Nigerian poet, writer and playwright and the author of the new novel, Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth (Pantheon, 2021), talk about the role of writers and literature in defending human rights and the three imprisoned Iranian writers being honored by PEN America this year and the organization's work on behalf of writers and thinkers around the globe.
→PEN Literary Gala [livestream]
→NYPL Live: Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth: Wole Soyinka and Farah Jasmine Griffin Thursday, Oct. 7 at 7:30.
