PEN America Announces 2026 World Voices Festival

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PEN America has revealed the lineup for its 2026 World Voices Festival, a major literary event. The festival will include prominent figures such as Judith Butler and Bill McKibben, promising a diverse range of discussions and presentations. The announcement highlights PEN America's commitment to promoting free expression and international literary exchange.

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PEN America announce 2026 World Voices festival with Judith Butler and Bill McKibben

The 2024 festival was cancelled after multiple authors pulled out over the non-profit’s stance on the Israel-Gaza warThe literary free speech organization PEN America has announced plans for their 2026 World Voices festival. The four day event will take place in New York and Los Angeles from 29 April to 2 May and feature writers from over 140 countries, with in person appearances from authors including Judith Butler, Bill McKibben, Cory Doctorow, Megha Majumdar and Katie Kitamura.In a press rele

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PEN America

PEN America, founded in 1922, and headquartered in New York City, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose goal is to raise awareness for the protection of free expression in the United States and worldwide through the advancement of literature and human rights. PEN America is the largest of the more than 100 PEN centers worldwide that together compose PEN International. PEN America has offices in New York City, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and since late 2023 also in Florida.

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Judith Butler

Judith Butler este o filozofă poststructuralistă din Statele Unite care a contribuit semnificativ spre teoria feministă, teoria queer și filozofia politică. Butler și-a primit doctoratul în filozofie de la Universitatea Yale în 1984.

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Bill McKibben

William Ernest McKibben is an American environmentalist, author, and journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College and leader of the climate campaign group 350.org. He has authored a dozen books about the environment, including his first, The End of Nature (1989), about climate change, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? (2019), and Here Comes the Sun (2025) about the state of the environmental challenges facing humanity and future prospects.

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