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PEN Melbourne MAKING SILENCED LANGUAGES VISIBLE Day 4 - Poem 6: Frysk (West Frisian) Arjan Hut: moanneljocht op tin iis West Frisian, spoken in the province of FryslĆ¢n (Netherlands) is the most closely related foreign tongue to the Old English. youtube.com/watch?v=0lPBREā¦



We are gravely concerned about the health of British-Egyptian academic, HRD, and mother of Alaa Abd El Fattah, hospitalised overnight on day 149 of hunger strike. We reiterate our call for Free Alaa immediately and unconditionally Keir Starmer Abdelfattah Elsisi pen-international.org/news/uk-foreigā¦

Today's video poem from PEN Translation & Linguistic Rights Committee is moanneljocht op tin iis (Moonlight on Thin Ice) by Arjan Hut, read in West Frisianāthe language closest to Old Englishāas part of PEN Centres' World Poetry Day countdown. Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=0lPBREā¦



We support PEN America in stating that the conviction in the attack on Salman Rushdie is a reminder that violence must never be a response to ideas.

Today's video poem from PEN Translation & Linguistic Rights Committee is Meli Witran Mapu (The Four Corners of the Earth) by Fabio Inalef, read in Mapuzungunāthe language of the Mapuche people. Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=_F3JGUā¦

