International P.E.N. Australia. Sydney Centre records, ca. 1940-1997

MLMSS 9013/Boxes 1-11

fonds

ca. 1940-1997

Textual Records, Clippings

395189

1.71 metres of textual material (11 boxes) - typescript, manuscript, printed

Founded in 1921, P.E.N. is the international non-political organisation of poets, playwrights, essayists, editors and novelists.

Box 1
Records of Australian P.E.N. Centres (non Sydney), 1995-1996; Requests for migration, 1996; Free Speech Committee, 1995; International correspondence, 1991-1997; Korea file; Writers' Festivals, 1993-1996

Box 2
Lists of international P.E.N. centres, 1989-1995; Membership correspondence, 1991-1997; Quarterly newsletter, nos 43-61, 1985-1989, and nos 62-90, 1990-1997; Quarterly letterheads file; Pen Quarterlies extra copies

Box 3
Writers in prison files, 1991-1996; Various International P.E.N. congress papers from Berlin 1973 to Barcelona and Rio de Janeiro 1992 and Prague 1994

Box 4
Various International P.E.N. congress papers from the 1980s-1990s

Box 5
Short story competitions, 1989-1991, 1994, 1997; P.E.N. poetry competition entries, 1987;
File of correspondence and clippings concerning the fatwa issued against Salman Rushdie

Box 6
Writers in prison correspondence, 1972-1988; Various P.E.N. correspondence, 1986-1991

Box 7
Minute books, 1976-1987, also a cheque book and cash receipt book

Box 8
Copies of P.E.N. Bulletin, 1966-1975 and copies of International P.E.N. Golden Jubilee Symposium Program, 1981; Writers in prison material, 1979; various P.E.N. correspondence, 1979; New members documents, 1980-1983; Miscellaneous P.E.N. papers, 1986; Correspondence with International P.E.N., 1986-1987

Box 9
Historical statements related to the P.E.N. Sydney conference, 1977; Auditors' statements to 1983; Papers regarding P.E.N. Vienna congress, 1991

Box 10
Published material including Japanese literature in foreign languages, compiled by Japanese P.E.N. Centre, 1945-1990; Copies of P.E.N. International magazine, 1984-1991; NGO Summit Newsletter, No. 2. 1993; Promethean Songs by Fuitsu Hazumi, published by Kozmik Press, 1994; Rushdie Alert, No. 1, 1994

Box 11
Collection of theatre programs and theatre related magazines, 1940s-1970s

Partly restricted: Applies to 'writers in prison' material. Restriction to be lifted progressively. For potential access to this material please contact the Head of Manuscripts Section

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