English PEN Presidency
Gillian Slovo is the 25th and current President of the English Centre of International PEN, the worldwide writers fellowship. In 2012 she took part in a PEN International delegation to Mexico to protest at the killing of journalists in that country, alongside presidents of other PEN Centres and internationally prominent writers.
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