"The Slovenian PEN Centre is held in high esteem within International PEN, as we are extremely active given the small size of the Slovenian centre and of our language area," Slovenian PEN president Tone Persak has said.
Speaking to the press on Tuesday after returning from the 72nd International PEN congress, which took place between 22 and 28 May in Berlin, Persak said that Slovenian PEN is one of the few centres that succeeded in organising two world PEN congresses.
Moreover, Slovenian writer Edvard Kovac has been appointed president of International PEN Writers for Peace Committee, succeeding another Slovenian representative, author Veno Taufer, Persak also said.
At this year's congress, Jamaican and Columbian PEN centres as well as a centre of writers writing in African languages joined International PEN, increasing the number of members to 144, according to Persak.
At the behest of the Writers for Peace Committee, a resolution on solving the Chechnya issue and on preserving Chechen culture was signed. International PEN also offers help to those authors who have been imprisoned or exiled, Taufer meanwhile said.
Furthermore, Czech writer Jirzi Grusa was re-elected the president of International PEN, while Slovenia's Boris A. Novak was appointed one of the three vice-presidents of the international centre.
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