Burhan Sönmez Asks the Question "Who Owns a Book?" - PEN America

During the 2023-2024 school year, 36% of all banned titles featured characters or people of color and a quarter (25%) included LGBTQ+ people or characters. This week-long intensive provides an in-person workshop for early-career writers from communities underrepresented in the publishing world. Learn how the creation and display of art is entwined with the U.S.’s most fraught cultural and political debates. The next four years could reshape the United States for decades to come. Join us in fighting every day to protect the freedom to write and the freedom to read. Join Donate Now A tribute to Kafka, Burhan Sönmez’s Lovers of Franz K., translated by Sami Hêzil, explores the impact that one writer’s work can have on not only an individual but on a political moment. Recreating the period of the Cold War in expert prose, two opposing characters later become partners in an expedition to expose who truly was behind the attempted assination of Kafka’s best friend, Max Brod. In

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