PEN LITERARY GREATS TO GATHER HERE JUNE 12

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• Publication Date: May 23, 1966
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DAILY NEWS
MAY 2 3 1966
'PEN -Literary Greats
f loo Gather Here June 12'
The world's literary greats will
gather here from June 12 to 18
at the 34th International PEN
Congress, the first such session
to be held in the United States in
42 years. Among the literary no-
tables expected to attend will be
Guenter Grass, Graham Greene,
Ignazio Silone, Pablo Neruda and
Murial- Spark.
Host will be Lewis Galentiere,
president of the PEN American
Center. PEN is a world associa-
tion of poets, playwrights, essay-
ists, editors and novelists in 66
countries.
"Exciting and gratifying as it
will be to welcome these literary
greats," Galentiere said, "what is
ultimately more important for
America is that the majority of
writers from Europe, Asia, Af-
rica and Latin America will be
getting their initial first-hand im
pressions of the United States.,
And it is these writers who often
establish the moral climate andl
shape the opinion in their owij
countries."
Miller to Speak
Arthur Miller, president of PEN
International, will address the
session on June 13 at the Loeb
Student Center at New York Uni-
versity where the week-long series
of discussions will be held.
The theme of the congress, "The
Writer as Independent Spirit,"
will be reviewed at four round-
table sessions during the week.
Other among the 150 delegates
expected are Edward Albee, Saul
Bellow, Norman Cousins, Leon
Edel, Ralph Ellison, N o r m a n
Mailer and William L. Shirer.
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