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Slovenski center PEN
Tomšičeva 12, SI-1000 Ljubljana
Phone386 (0) 1 425 4847
Marjan Strojan, President



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Slovene PEN Centre is the Slovene branch of International PEN, a worldwide association of writers that promotes literature and human rights. The branch was established in 1926 and began to organise its annual international conference in 1967, making it the oldest annual regional conference within the framework of international writers' organisations.

In 2009 some 60 writers from 25 different countries met at the lakeside resort of Bled between 25 and 29 March for the 41st annual meeting. The debate focused on freedom, the role of culture and media in processes that led to independence of nations or other historic events, and on the role of female literary characters in achieving peace. The Peace Committee paid special attention to problems in the Middle East and Tibet. The 42nd meeting, held 24 to 28 March 2010, featured roundtables on Globalisation: an opportunity for all or a new colonisation for many, Literature and Globalisation, and Peace between diurnal and nocturnal dreams.



The Writers for Peace Committee, with its headquarters at the Slovene PEN Centre, was founded in 1984 at the centre's annual meeting in Piran. Nowadays a five-day meeting is organised every year by the Slovene PEN Centre within the framework of the International Writers' Conference at Lake Bled in Slovenia. Panel discussions and literary evenings have also been held in Bled, Piran and Ljubljana, at which representatives of 35 PEN centres led by the Writers for Peace Committee and other interested writers discuss their views on the armed conflicts in different regions of the world.

PEN stands for Poets-Essayists-Novelists. International PEN exists to promote friendship and goodwill among writers everywhere, regardless of their political or other views, to fight for freedom of expression and to defend writers suffering under oppressive regimes. PEN is strictly non-political, a non-governmental organisation with category A status at UNESCO. It is composed of centres, each of which represents its members, not its country. Membership is open to all writers, regardless of nationality, race, colour or religion, and each centre, being autonomous, sets its own membership qualifications. PEN is currently represented in 131 countries throughout the world. Its publishing arm, International PEN Books, is engaged in the publication of anthologies and histories of contemporary literature from around the world.

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