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Freemuse’s State of Artistic Freedom 2025 report is out. Across the globe, artists are being silenced, through arrest, threats, and censorship. Even in democracies, self-censorship is rising. The report reveals an alarming trend in political repression and moral policing in 2024.

Mark your diaries! Oxford Translation Day will be June 14 2025!

A series of film screenings and panel discussions will take place in London on 16th, 19th and 20th May. A world premier for two of the films and a very exciting set of speakers await visitors. The challenges of bringing about accountability and democracy in the new Bangladesh.

Congratulations Carys!

Join us at Brixton Library Lambeth Libraries on 2 June to hear My Dear Kabul (Coronet, 2024) contributor Batool Haidari, co-translator Negeen Kargar , and one of the book’s editors, Sunila Galappatti, talking about this collective diary by Afghan women writers. eventbrite.co.uk/e/my-dear-kabu…

Manya Wilkinson has won the Royal Society of Literature's (Royal Society of Literature) £15,000 Encore Award for the best second novel, for her book Lublin (And Other Stories) 👇 thebookseller.com/news/manya-wil…

You can now read International-Booker-Prize-Winner Banu Mushtaq’s acceptance speech, in full, over on our Ampersand blog: andotherstories.org/2025/05/21/ban…

Read the full correspondence between Kate Mosse and Parand for free for a limited time using this gift link 🎁 With thanks to Untold Narratives Lucy Hannah Martin Hemming ✨ thetimes.com/article/5a3a45…

A great team effort between Untold and The Times and The Sunday Times today. Online and in the mag

Join Paranda writer Tamanna Easar on 24 June at Exiled Lit Cafe (Exiled Writers Ink) panel ‘Step into my Shoes’, exploring the conflicting sense of self in exile. Get tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/e/exiled-write…

Tongueless Speaker, a short story by Paranda writer Tamanna Easar, translated from Dari by Abdul Bacet, was published in Words Without Borders. The story follows a woman from Afghanistan as she attempts to adjust to her life in exile. wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2…

In Reading, We Resist, by Paranda writer Marie Bamyani, was published by The Markaz Review The Markaz Review is @markaz-review.bsky.social this month. Marie talks about the importance of the Paranda book club, where Afghan women writers select and discuss a variety of books. themarkaz.org/in-reading-we-…

My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird, New Fiction by Afghan Women (@MacLehosePress, 2022) has been published in South Korea by Pacho Publishing. Buy the English edition: bit.ly/4f12NUY