The US$10 million gift of the Barbey family has established PEN’s new Freedom to Write Center, which Liesl Gerntholtz will helm. Not for nothing, for example, is Kristenn Einarsson‘s new World Expression Forum, WEXFO, having its first outing next month in Norway. Can Gerntholtz structure and drive the Freedom to Write Center as a genuinely impactful program? The apartheid regime banned (and burned) books, music, films, really any form of expression it deemed supportive of freedom, human rights, and/or the African National Congress. And more on the freedom of expression and publication is here.

Source: CNN April 20, 2022 13:25 UTC