Tag: Pen

Arundhati Roy wins PEN Pinter Prize for ‘powerful voice’

Indian author Arundhati Roy has said that she is “delighted” to have been awarded this year’s PEN Pinter Prize. Set up in memory of playwright Harold Pinter, the award is for writers of “outstanding literary merit” who take an “unflinching” look at the world. The announcement comes weeks after officials in India approved action against […]

France’s Le Pen expects clear far-right win and power over Macron

By Dominique Vidalon and Bertrand Boucey PARIS (Reuters) – French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is confident her party will win an absolute majority in parliament, form a government and impose limits on what President Emmanuel Macron can do to support Ukraine, she said days before voting starts. Macron will remain president after a snap […]

Marine Le Pen party’s security adviser is an alleged Russian agent

Marine Le Pen’s National Rally is under fire over a former model and alleged Russian “agent of influence” who is now an adviser to the party as it looks to form France’s next government. Tamara Volokhova, 34, is causing the hard-Right party particular embarrassment because it has vowed to ban dual-national immigrants from key jobs […]

French Feminists Protest Le Pen Even as She Pulls in Women

(Bloomberg) — Feminist groups in France protested on Sunday against the prospect of Marine Le Pen’s party governing the country even as the National Rally pulls in a greater proportion of women voters. Most Read from Bloomberg The several thousand protesters marching in Paris were reckoning with a difficult reality: Le Pen has made progress […]

Germany’s Scholz Says He Hopes Le Pen Won’t Win French Elections

(Bloomberg) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz waded into French politics by voicing his hopes that Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally won’t win the country’s parliamentary elections. Most Read from Bloomberg “I’m worried about the elections in France, I want to say that explicitly,” Scholz said in an interview with ARD public broadcaster on Sunday. […]

German branch of writers’ association PEN bans far-right AfD members

The German branch of the writers’ association PEN does not want any members of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in its ranks and has passed a resolution to that effect. The resolution prohibiting simultaneous membership of the party and the writers’ association was passed unanimously at a general meeting in the northern port city […]