English PEN is to look for a new director after Jonathan Heawood announced that he will step down in June.

Heawood, who has served as director of the writers' association for six years, is to take up a new role as director of programmes at human rights foundation, the Sigrid Rausing Trust.

Gillian Slovo, English PEN...

What's the point of literary translation? For too long, publishers and booksellers have fought shy of literature in translation, fearing that readers are put off by books with foreign-sounding authors. In the culmination of a two-year project, English PEN and Free Word have published Taking Flight, a...

Anti-censorship campaigners have written to the Guardian opposing the stance taken by authors critical of Tony Blair's Waterstone's signing.

Iain Banks, A L Kennedy and John Pilger were among the signatories to a letter yesterday calling on Waterstone's to reconsider its decision to host a signing event for former prime...