PEN in Ukraine

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 10, 2022

With the PEN World Voices Festival starting, Suzanne Nossel, CEO of PEN America, the human rights and free expression organization, and Andrey Kurkov, novelist and PEN Ukraine president, talk about the organization's efforts in Ukraine and around the world.

→ Andrey Kurkov gives the 2022 Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture on Friday, May 13 at 6:30pm, ET.

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