Il 43° Incontro Internazionale degli Scrittori, organizzato dal PEN Sloveno, si è tenuto a Bled dal 4 all’8 Maggio 2010.
Presenti il Presidente Internazionale John Ralston Saul, il Segretario Internazionale Takeaki Hori, il Vice-presidente Internazionale Boris A. Novak, due Membri del Board, Tarik Günersel (PEN Turchia) e Markéta Hejkalova (PEN Rep. Ceca), il Presidente ed il Vice-presidente del Writers for Peace Committee (WfPC), Edvard Kovač e Teresa Salema e Frank Geary, Interim Executive Director.
Erano rappresentati 29 Centri: America, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Canada, Catalogna, Croazia, Esperanto, Estonia, Finlandia, Francia, Giappone, Grecia, Inghilterra, Italia, Kurdistan, Olanda, Paesi baschi, Palestina, Portogallo, Rep. Ceca, Romania, Scozia, Serbia, Svizzera Francese, Svizzera Italiana e Retoromancia, Trieste, Turchia, Ungheria, Uyguro, ed ovviamente il PEN Slovenia quale ospite.
Presenti pure come osservatori la Société des Gens de Lettres e l’European Writer’s Council ed una rappresentante dell’Università di Haifa.
Il PEN Trieste era presente con 2 delegati, Antonio Della Rocca e Patrizia Vascotto.
Si sono tenute 3 tavole rotonde:
1. Bibliodiversità e futuro della scrittura,, moderata da Marjan Strojan del PEN Slovenia;
2. Censura visibile ed invisibile, moderata da Franca Tiberto, del PEN Svizzera Italiana e Retoromancia ;
3. L’immagine dello straniero nella letteratura – un cammino verso la pace, moderata da Edvard Kovač, del Pen Slovenia e Presidente del WfPC
con molti interventi e discussioni.
IL WfPC ha tenuto la consueta riunione in previsione del Congresso. Sono stati approvati:
1) una dichiarazione in favore della Mexico's National March for Justice and Peace with Dignity (che si è tenuta in Messico l’8 maggio con grande successo di partecipazione) in occasione dell’assassinio del figlio del giornalista e poeta Javier Sicilia e in generale contro la violenza che colpisce tutta la popolazione;
2) una dichiarazione del PEN Turchia che richiede la liberazione dei giornalisti, traduttori e scrittori incarcerati in quel Paese e che afferma il valore di Internet come mezzo di difesa della libertà di espressione;
3) una dichiarazione sui rischi del nucleare incentrata sui recenti avvenimenti del Giappone e quelli di Chernobyl.
In parallelo si sono tenuti degli incontri multilaterali nel corso dei quali si è raggiunto l’importante risultato della stesura di una bozza di dichiarazione congiunta tra una scrittrice israeliana e la rappresentante del PEN Palestina sulla necessità della coesistenza dello stato d’Israele e del costituendo Stato della Palestina. La formulazione definitiva della bozza di dichiarazione è stata rimandata ad una fase successiva, in previsione della sessione congressuale del WfPC di settembre a Belgrado.
Tra le manifestazioni culturali da citare - oltre ai consueti readings di poesia in varie cittadine - la presentazione di 4 esponenti della poesia istriana, nonché l’intervento dello scrittore Marek Halter, anche al Castello di Lubiana, in occasione della traduzione in sloveno del suo romanzo "Marija".
Non è mancato il tradizionale incontro con il Presidente della Repubblica di Slovenia, dr. Danilo Türk, che ha tenuto un interessante discorso sul tema della multiculturalità.
Come già rilevato in altre occasioni, da tempo Bled rappresenta nella vita informale del PEN International un momento di incontro molto importante, anche quest’anno caratterizzato da una forte presenza degli Officers internazionali. Il Presidente John Ralston Saul ed il neo-eletto Segretario Internazionale Takeaki Hori sono stati presenti all’intera manifestazione, rinnovando ed allacciando conoscenze con i delegati e chiedendo il loro parere su varie questioni inerenti la vita dell’organizzazione.
Antonio Della Rocca / Patrizia Vascotto
9.5.2011
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Friday, 13 May 2011
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
Claudio H. Martelli, Past President of Trieste PEN Centre, has passed away.
It is with deep sorrow that I have to announce that my dear friend and colleague Claudio H. Martelli, Past President of PEN Club Trieste, has passed away yesterday night after a long, brave fight with his illness.
Claudio – a many-sided personality, if any - has been a poet, a writer, an essayist, an author of theatre, a journalist, a publisher of books and of his review Trieste Artecultura.
He has been for decades a scholar and a critic in the field of figurative arts and he has edited and published a Dictionary of the Artists of Trieste, Gorizia, Istria and Dalmatia. His poems have been published in many anthologies in Italy and abroad.
A founder of the Trieste PEN Centre in 2003, he has been its first Vice President and the second President. Recently he decided to step down in view of his state of health. At present he was Past President and we all hoped to avail ourselves of his experience for a long time.
I would like to recall that it has been Claudio who conceived the idea of our InterPENbooks, that found its first realization in 2008 in cooperation with the Slovene PEN and will shortly see the second issue in cooperation with the Croatian PEN.
We and his relatives will remember him as a good man as well as a firm believer in the principles of PEN and a passionate advocate of the multicultural, multiethnic and multilingual approach of the Trieste PEN Centre of International PEN.
Antonio Della Rocca
on behalf of the PEN Club Trieste
Monday, 28 February 2011
PEN Club Trieste Officers 2011/2013
After the General Meeting held on February 12, 2011, for the three-years period 2011/2013 the Officers of the PEN Club Trieste are:
Antonio Della Rocca – President
Marina Silvestri Ferrari – Vice President and Treasurer
Patrizia Vascotto – Secretary General
Claudio H. Martelli and Juan Octavio Prenz as Past Presidents are part of the Steering Committee, together with the Officers and Ivan Bujukliev, Carla Carloni Mocavero and Rina Anna Rusconi.
Antonio Della Rocca represents the Trieste PEN Centre in the Writers for Peace Committee, while the following PEN Trieste members are in charge of the liaison with:
Writers in Prison Committee – Julius Franzot
Translation & Linguistic Right Committee – Ana Cecilia Prenz
Women Writers Committee – Lina Morselli
Starting as of March 1, 2011 the email address of the PEN Trieste Centre is
pen.trieste@yahoo.com
or
dellarocca.pentrieste@yahoo.com
For messages concerning this blog please convey your mail to
adellarocca@gmail.com
Antonio Della Rocca – President
Marina Silvestri Ferrari – Vice President and Treasurer
Patrizia Vascotto – Secretary General
Claudio H. Martelli and Juan Octavio Prenz as Past Presidents are part of the Steering Committee, together with the Officers and Ivan Bujukliev, Carla Carloni Mocavero and Rina Anna Rusconi.
Antonio Della Rocca represents the Trieste PEN Centre in the Writers for Peace Committee, while the following PEN Trieste members are in charge of the liaison with:
Writers in Prison Committee – Julius Franzot
Translation & Linguistic Right Committee – Ana Cecilia Prenz
Women Writers Committee – Lina Morselli
Starting as of March 1, 2011 the email address of the PEN Trieste Centre is
pen.trieste@yahoo.com
or
dellarocca.pentrieste@yahoo.com
For messages concerning this blog please convey your mail to
adellarocca@gmail.com
Monday, 31 January 2011
ASSEMBLEA DEI SOCI DEL PEN CLUB TRIESTE
A tutti i Soci / Socie del PEN Club Trieste
Loro indirizzi
Cari Consoci / Consocie,
l’Assemblea Ordinaria dell’Associazione PEN Club Trieste è indetta il giorno sabato 12 febbraio 2011 alle ore 10.00 in prima ed alle ore 11.00 in seconda convocazione presso lo Storico Caffè San Marco, Via Battisti , con il seguente Ordine del Giorno:
1. Relazione della Presidenza
2. Relazione finanziaria
3. Elezione del Presidente e del Comitato Direttivo
4. Varie ed eventuali
Si ricorda che la partecipazione all’Assemblea è riservata, in base all’art. 9 dello Statuto, agli iscritti all’Associazione in regola con il versamento delle quote sociali relative.
Si rammenta inoltre che è possibile farsi rappresentare all’Assemblea da altro socio mediante delega scritta ed autografa. Il numero di deleghe per la medesima persona è fissato nel numero massimo di tre.
Mi è gradita l’occasione per porgervi i più cordiali saluti.
p. il Presidente
Antonio Della Rocca
Vice Presidente
Loro indirizzi
Cari Consoci / Consocie,
l’Assemblea Ordinaria dell’Associazione PEN Club Trieste è indetta il giorno sabato 12 febbraio 2011 alle ore 10.00 in prima ed alle ore 11.00 in seconda convocazione presso lo Storico Caffè San Marco, Via Battisti , con il seguente Ordine del Giorno:
1. Relazione della Presidenza
2. Relazione finanziaria
3. Elezione del Presidente e del Comitato Direttivo
4. Varie ed eventuali
Si ricorda che la partecipazione all’Assemblea è riservata, in base all’art. 9 dello Statuto, agli iscritti all’Associazione in regola con il versamento delle quote sociali relative.
Si rammenta inoltre che è possibile farsi rappresentare all’Assemblea da altro socio mediante delega scritta ed autografa. Il numero di deleghe per la medesima persona è fissato nel numero massimo di tre.
Mi è gradita l’occasione per porgervi i più cordiali saluti.
p. il Presidente
Antonio Della Rocca
Vice Presidente
Thursday, 27 January 2011
Pagine Facebook del PEN Club Trieste e del PEN International
Tre mesi fa, a fine ottobre 2011,ho aperto due pagine su Facebook, una dedicata al PEN Club Trieste ed una come Gruppo del PEN International on Facebook.
La prima ha come obiettivo di informare soci, colleghi di altri Centri PEN ed il pubblico di Facebook in generale dell'esistenza e dell'attività del nostro Centro.
Gli obiettivi della seconda - rivisti dopo tre mesi di esistenza piuttosto vivace - sono riassunti nel documento che ho pubblicato sulla pagina e che riporto qui per comodità dei frequentatori.
A QUASI-MANIFEST FOR PEN INTERNATIONAL ON FACEBOOK
Dear Friends,
this Group has been opened – to say founded would sound a bit bombastic – three months ago. I confess that at that moment I had no idea that it would have been so successful, because to have 104 members is a goal I did not think could be reached in so small a time.
In view of this (little) success I feel it could be opportune to try to define what we are, what we are doing (or trying to do) and why.
This is not a manifest, which I don’t have neither the authority nor the wish to write: anyone of you is absolutely free to comment and to disagree, and your comments will help us to decide whether we have taken the right path or if we have to adjust the course.
The Group is an open one, dedicated to PEN members but not exclusive. One of the reasons of this document is to give to people asking to become members of the Group a clear idea of what kind of contents we are interested into and avoid to become a mess of passers-by.
There is no limitation to the contents, but these are supposed to be related to our quality of PEN members: literary topics and issues about translations or linguistic rights, as well as about freedom of expression – including the safeguard of writers -, keeping and promotion of peace. We know what’s it all about.
In my opinion we should also try to inform and keep informed about the initiatives of our respective PEN Centres, to signal the works of our colleagues which are already translated to other languages (and those we deserve to be), to maintain communication channels open between PEN Centres of different parts of the world.
This activity, at that degree of detail, is not in contrast with the activity developed by the PEN International website, which has to achieve many more institutional goals. Our role has to be one of support, in all the small areas this website cannot cover. It could be a role of incitement too, why not?
In order to do so, we should try to attract – I would say to lure, because many of our colleagues don’t like Facebook, worse, they don’t trust it – into this social network as many members of PEN as possible. Not because it is a heaven, only for the practical reason that it’s the most widespread one, and it allows more space for discussion than e.g. Twitter.
People fear a loss of personal data, a breach in privacy. Apart from the fact that nobody can steal data you do not put online, in my opinion there is no opportunity without a certain degree of risk, and vice versa. I personally have considered the possibility to vastly improve my communication a game worth the candle.
Anyway, we should try to find out as many PEN members as possible that are already more or less active on Facebook and ask them to join our Group. You all are well aware that a number of the present 104 members are leading members or Officers in their respective Center: some are even Officers of PEN International. However, this Group is designed to accept any member and also non-members that are genuinely interested in our activity.
Writers are busy people, so it’s physiological that they at best have a look at the page and don’t interact: even so, our page is very lively.
It would be fantastic if in average everyone of us would visit the page once a week, possibly leaving a short message or at least utilizing the “Like” button, if he/she actually likes some post.
May I recall that not only English, but also French and Spanish are official languages of PEN?
But in the very end we have to ask ourselves non only what we can do in order to further our communication, and how to do it.
The real question is: why are we trying to build a sort of virtual Speaker’s Corner in a Facebook’s Hyde Park, where everybody can climb on a wooden box and start communicating to everybody else in transit his/her ideas and debate with them?
In my opinion this kind of exercise is vital if we want PEN to become a so-called flat organisation.
An international body with 145 Centres in 104 countries is too big to rely on two-way communication protocols like ordinary or electronic post. In the world of today we need easier and user-friendly forms of expression and it would be a mistake not to utilize the existent ones.
We have to debate openly if we agree with the present form of organization or if we would prefer some other organizational model, if we think this organization is apt to represent the Centres, the members, the geographical and linguistic areas and their interests, if the full membership can be granted to readers and to young people and in which form.
In the Congress of Tokyo there has been an attempt to free discussion that has to be further implemented.
Maybe democracy is too big a word for it, but I think you know what I mean. The same fact that you have decreed a certain success to this Group is a good proof for that.
Thanks to you all for your attention and for your cooperation.
La prima ha come obiettivo di informare soci, colleghi di altri Centri PEN ed il pubblico di Facebook in generale dell'esistenza e dell'attività del nostro Centro.
Gli obiettivi della seconda - rivisti dopo tre mesi di esistenza piuttosto vivace - sono riassunti nel documento che ho pubblicato sulla pagina e che riporto qui per comodità dei frequentatori.
A QUASI-MANIFEST FOR PEN INTERNATIONAL ON FACEBOOK
Dear Friends,
this Group has been opened – to say founded would sound a bit bombastic – three months ago. I confess that at that moment I had no idea that it would have been so successful, because to have 104 members is a goal I did not think could be reached in so small a time.
In view of this (little) success I feel it could be opportune to try to define what we are, what we are doing (or trying to do) and why.
This is not a manifest, which I don’t have neither the authority nor the wish to write: anyone of you is absolutely free to comment and to disagree, and your comments will help us to decide whether we have taken the right path or if we have to adjust the course.
The Group is an open one, dedicated to PEN members but not exclusive. One of the reasons of this document is to give to people asking to become members of the Group a clear idea of what kind of contents we are interested into and avoid to become a mess of passers-by.
There is no limitation to the contents, but these are supposed to be related to our quality of PEN members: literary topics and issues about translations or linguistic rights, as well as about freedom of expression – including the safeguard of writers -, keeping and promotion of peace. We know what’s it all about.
In my opinion we should also try to inform and keep informed about the initiatives of our respective PEN Centres, to signal the works of our colleagues which are already translated to other languages (and those we deserve to be), to maintain communication channels open between PEN Centres of different parts of the world.
This activity, at that degree of detail, is not in contrast with the activity developed by the PEN International website, which has to achieve many more institutional goals. Our role has to be one of support, in all the small areas this website cannot cover. It could be a role of incitement too, why not?
In order to do so, we should try to attract – I would say to lure, because many of our colleagues don’t like Facebook, worse, they don’t trust it – into this social network as many members of PEN as possible. Not because it is a heaven, only for the practical reason that it’s the most widespread one, and it allows more space for discussion than e.g. Twitter.
People fear a loss of personal data, a breach in privacy. Apart from the fact that nobody can steal data you do not put online, in my opinion there is no opportunity without a certain degree of risk, and vice versa. I personally have considered the possibility to vastly improve my communication a game worth the candle.
Anyway, we should try to find out as many PEN members as possible that are already more or less active on Facebook and ask them to join our Group. You all are well aware that a number of the present 104 members are leading members or Officers in their respective Center: some are even Officers of PEN International. However, this Group is designed to accept any member and also non-members that are genuinely interested in our activity.
Writers are busy people, so it’s physiological that they at best have a look at the page and don’t interact: even so, our page is very lively.
It would be fantastic if in average everyone of us would visit the page once a week, possibly leaving a short message or at least utilizing the “Like” button, if he/she actually likes some post.
May I recall that not only English, but also French and Spanish are official languages of PEN?
But in the very end we have to ask ourselves non only what we can do in order to further our communication, and how to do it.
The real question is: why are we trying to build a sort of virtual Speaker’s Corner in a Facebook’s Hyde Park, where everybody can climb on a wooden box and start communicating to everybody else in transit his/her ideas and debate with them?
In my opinion this kind of exercise is vital if we want PEN to become a so-called flat organisation.
An international body with 145 Centres in 104 countries is too big to rely on two-way communication protocols like ordinary or electronic post. In the world of today we need easier and user-friendly forms of expression and it would be a mistake not to utilize the existent ones.
We have to debate openly if we agree with the present form of organization or if we would prefer some other organizational model, if we think this organization is apt to represent the Centres, the members, the geographical and linguistic areas and their interests, if the full membership can be granted to readers and to young people and in which form.
In the Congress of Tokyo there has been an attempt to free discussion that has to be further implemented.
Maybe democracy is too big a word for it, but I think you know what I mean. The same fact that you have decreed a certain success to this Group is a good proof for that.
Thanks to you all for your attention and for your cooperation.
Wednesday, 19 January 2011
Un'amica che speriamo di ritrovare: Roberta Ferrazza
L'11 gennaio 2011 si è tenuta a Lubiana, nei nuovi locali dell'Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Slovenia, alla presenza dell'Ambasciatore Pietromarchi, degli Ambasciatori francese e svizzero, di membri del PEN Slovenia e di un folto pubblico, un incontro di saluto alla Direttrice dr.ssa Roberta Ferrazza che lascia l'incarico dopo quasi tre anni.
Roberta - che vedete alla cerimonia di presentazione dell'InterPENBook 1 a Lubiana nel maggio 2009 - è stata un punto di riferimento per il nostro PEN e per quello sloveno durante questi anni, oltre che una cara e preziosa amica.
Ci piace pensare che il suo prossimo incarico la porterà in un Paese di suo gradimento, in cui potrà collaborare con il PEN locale con lo stesso entusiasmo che ha mostrato nei nostri rapporti. E chissà, forse ci riincontreremo.
Buona fortuna, Roberta !
Wednesday, 8 December 2010
Words Beyond Borders - Writers for Peace International Conference
Words Beyond Borders - Writers for Peace International Conference
Haifa, Israel, December 1 - 4, 2010
The International Conference of Writers for Peace took place in Haifa with 40 writers from 13 countries in attendance.
The objective of the conference was to discuss issues concerning peace and freedom of expression. It brought together people from many parts of the world to meet each other and become friends, if they weren't already.
The choice of time and place, coinciding with the Holiday of Holidays Festival — which celebrates Ed Al-Adha, Hannukah, and Christmas — underlines the intention to carry on a free and frank discussion of issues specific to the region.
Many themes were discussed in this spirit, such as Language of Writing, Literature Facing the Challenges of our Time —Environment and Peace, Liberty of Conscience and Freedom of Expression, Writers in Periods of Conflict, Human Rights. Writers from different places, with profoundly different opinions told their personal stories, but they were all united in understanding the necessity and urgency of searching for a peaceful solution to the problems of Israelis and Palestinians.
The reduced participation of Arab and Palestinian writers, despite the insistent invitations, remains an open issue. But such participation in future meetings is very necessary. Half of the hall should not be empty again.
Writers and intellectuals should continue to pursue dialogue with each other even in complex situations, making full use of freedom of expression and in complete independence of political authorities.
The main issues of the Haifa Conference can be summarized in the following three points:
1) Freedom of conscience is only a first step but no guarantee of freedom.
2) It remains to be seen whether Israeli and Palestinian writers will fight for freedom of expression to make peace or whether they will tolerate the various kinds of censorship.
3) If peace is to become a basic human right, it needs to be constructed through education, attention, dialogue, and artistic creation.
Similarly, during these last few days we have seen countries such as Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Cyprus, and Greece sending assistance and support to Haifa to extinguish the fire that has ravaged the region and caused 40 deaths. Such solidarity reveals that there can always be a will to work together in emergency situations. If people are able to come together under such tragic conditions, they can also cooperate in order to make peace.
Haifa, Israel, December 1 - 4, 2010
The International Conference of Writers for Peace took place in Haifa with 40 writers from 13 countries in attendance.
The objective of the conference was to discuss issues concerning peace and freedom of expression. It brought together people from many parts of the world to meet each other and become friends, if they weren't already.
The choice of time and place, coinciding with the Holiday of Holidays Festival — which celebrates Ed Al-Adha, Hannukah, and Christmas — underlines the intention to carry on a free and frank discussion of issues specific to the region.
Many themes were discussed in this spirit, such as Language of Writing, Literature Facing the Challenges of our Time —Environment and Peace, Liberty of Conscience and Freedom of Expression, Writers in Periods of Conflict, Human Rights. Writers from different places, with profoundly different opinions told their personal stories, but they were all united in understanding the necessity and urgency of searching for a peaceful solution to the problems of Israelis and Palestinians.
The reduced participation of Arab and Palestinian writers, despite the insistent invitations, remains an open issue. But such participation in future meetings is very necessary. Half of the hall should not be empty again.
Writers and intellectuals should continue to pursue dialogue with each other even in complex situations, making full use of freedom of expression and in complete independence of political authorities.
The main issues of the Haifa Conference can be summarized in the following three points:
1) Freedom of conscience is only a first step but no guarantee of freedom.
2) It remains to be seen whether Israeli and Palestinian writers will fight for freedom of expression to make peace or whether they will tolerate the various kinds of censorship.
3) If peace is to become a basic human right, it needs to be constructed through education, attention, dialogue, and artistic creation.
Similarly, during these last few days we have seen countries such as Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Cyprus, and Greece sending assistance and support to Haifa to extinguish the fire that has ravaged the region and caused 40 deaths. Such solidarity reveals that there can always be a will to work together in emergency situations. If people are able to come together under such tragic conditions, they can also cooperate in order to make peace.
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