International P.E.N. Australia. Sydney Centre further records, 1959-1999

MLMSS 8638

fonds

1959-1999

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Clippings, Photographs

874599

0.34 metres of textual material (2 boxes), some boxes contain photographs

BOX 1
1. 1959-1999; Attendance book of members and guests at meetings, annual general meetings, committee meetings and functions, and including copy of constitution of International P.E.N. (Australia) Sydney Centre and P.E.N. Charter

2. 1996; Report of Asia Pacific P.E.N. Conference, Tokyo, 26-28 Nov. 1996 by Japan P.E.N. Club

3. ‘PEN-Charter-History-Constitution’, 1960-1973, including Rules of the English Centre; P.E.N. Charter; constitution of ‘Australian Centre of International P.E.N. (Sydney Branch)’, International P.E.N. International Rules, papers relating to Australian Centre of International P. E. N. (Melbourne), issue of P.E.N., newsletter of the English Centre of International P.E.N., Spring 1969

4. ‘PEN-PEN’, 1969-1975, including correspondence with International P.E.N. Australia (Melbourne Centre); copies of minutes of Melbourne Centre Congress Planning Committee meetings; notices to members of meetings and functions for International P.E.N.( Sydney Centre); correspondence with International P.E.N., list of Sydney P.E.N. Centre members,1971; copy of letter sent to Nobel Committee of Swedish Academy nominating Patrick White for Nobel Prize for Literature, 10 Jan, 1971; ‘Aphaea’ by Jean P. Coutsocheras signed by author, 1969; ‘Rise up for the Rights of Man Arise!...’ by John Coutsoheras signed by author, 1973; correspondence with Governor General Sir Paul Hasluck, 1970; photograph; newscuttings

5. 1989-1996; including papers documenting Sydney Centre activities relating to writers imprisoned in China, including letters and faxes from International Pen Writers in Prison Committee, letters to Australian Government ministers and Australian ambassadors, and letters to foreign government ministers and ambassadors; newscuttings

6. ‘W.S. Rendra’, 1978, being papers documenting Sydney Centre activities relating to the imprisonment in Indonesia of W.S. Rendra, including correspondence with Minister for Foreign Affairs, Andrew Peacock; correspondence with W. S. Rendra and his sister and brother-in-law; photographs; newscuttings

7. ‘PEN Sydney Centre: Rapid Action Network’, 1992-1996, including faxes from the Rapid Action Network of the International Pen Writers in Prison Committee; press releases and letters from International Pen Writers in Prison Committee, relating to writers imprisoned in, amongst other countries, Nigeria, Vietnam, Kenya, Ethiopia, China, Iran, Pakistan, Algeria, India, Burma, Turkey and Sudan

8. ‘PEN’, 1977-1994, including constitution of ‘International P.E.N., Sydney Centre (Australia)’; minutes of meetings of the Assembly of Delegates of International P.E.N., 1986-1989; circulars from International P.E.N. to all P.E.N. centres; correspondence with Sydney Centre President, Alex Sheppard, and Jean Dixon relating to article published in issue of ‘Frontier’; transcript of talk by Stella Wilkes given to Society of Women Writers, 9 Feb. 1978; programme of 42nd International P.E.N. Congress held in Sydney, 11-17 Dec. 1977

BOX 2
9. Four versions of letterhead page of International P.E.N Australia-Sydney Centre listing life members and honorary life members, names of office holders of the association, and three versions of membership application forms

10. ‘Myanmar = Burma’, 1993-1999, including papers documenting Sydney Centre activities relating to the imprisonment of Ma Thida in Burma, including correspondence with Australian Dept. of Foreign Affairs and Trade; correspondence with International P.E.N. Writers in Prison Committee; typescript of English translation of nine short stories written by Ma Thida ; transcript of interview with Ma Thida, 1993; letters to Australian government ministers and to foreign government ministers; newscuttings

11. ‘Various Countries’,1976-1992, including typescript article by Stella Wilkes, Vice-President of International P.E.N Australia-Sydney Centre, commemorating the Day of the Imprisoned Writer; papers documenting Sydney Centre activities relating to the imprisonment of writers in Argentina, Uruguay, Tibet, and Poland, including letters to Australian Government ministers and Australian ambassadors, and letters to foreign government ministers and ambassadors; newscuttings; correspondence with Polish Ambassador to Australia relating to closure of Polish P.E.N. Centre, 1982

12. ‘South Korea: Hwang Suk Young’, 1988-1996, papers relating to writers imprisoned in South Korea, including correspondence with International PEN Writers in Prison Committee relating to the imprisonment of writer Chang Ui-gyun; letters and reports received from International PEN Writers in Prison Committee relating to Hwang Suk-Young, and letters with attachment received from Committee for the Release of Hwang Suk-Young and Amnesty International

13. ‘Yugoslavia’, 1980-1994, including papers documenting Sydney Centre activities relating to the imprisonment of writers in Yugoslavia, including letters and faxes from International Pen Writers in Prison Committee, letters to Australian Government ministers and Australian ambassadors, and letters to Yugoslavian Government ministers and ambassador; photographs of Vlado Gogovac and Momcilo Selic; letters and circulars sent from Amnesty International; newscuttings

14. ‘Vietnam’, 1981-1994, including papers documenting Sydney Centre activities relating to writers imprisoned in Vietnam including letters and faxes from International Pen Writers in Prison Committee, correspondence with Australian Government ministers and Australian ambassadors, and letters to foreign government ministers and ambassadors; correspondence with Thieu Mai, 1985-1989; newscuttings

15. ‘South Africa’, 1976-1988, including papers documenting Sydney Centre activities relating to writers imprisoned in South Africa, including letters from International Pen Writers in Prison Committee, correspondence with Australian Government ministers and Australian ambassadors, and letters to South African Government ministers and ambassador; newscuttings

16. ‘USSR’, 1980-1991, papers relating to writers imprisoned in the U.S.S.R. including circular letters from International P.E.N.; newsletter from PEN American Center; letter from Sydney Centre to Michael Ulman relating to writer Lidiia Chukovskaya; typescript of speech of Valentyn Moroz, May 1980; newscuttings

17. ‘Doan Quoc Sy’, 1981-1995, including papers documenting Sydney Centre activities relating to writer Doan Quoc Sy, including correspondence with writer’s daughters Doan Thi Ngoc Thanh and Vu Mong Giao, correspondence with Dept. of Foreign Affairs and Trade, correspondence with International P.E.N. Writers in Prison Committee

18. ‘Turkey’, 1985-1997, including papers documenting Sydney Centre activities relating to writers imprisoned in Turkey including faxes, letters and circulars from International P.E.N. Writers in Prison Committee, letters to Australian Government ministers and Australian ambassador to Turkey, and letters to Turkish Government ministers and ambassador; newscuttings

19. ‘Mykola Rudenko’, 1977-1985, including papers documenting Sydney Centre activities relating to writer Mykola Rudenko imprisoned in the U.S.S.R., including correspondence with International P.E.N. Writers in Prison Committee, correspondence with Australian Government ministers and Australian ambassador, and letters to U.S.S.R. Government ministers and ambassador; newscuttings

20. ‘Said Zahari, Singapore’, 1974-1980, including papers documenting Sydney Centre activities relating to writers imprisoned in Singapore, including correspondence with writer Said Zahari, and Amnesty International, correspondence with International P.E.N. Melbourne Centre, correspondence with Australian Government ministers and Australian High Commissioner to Singapore, and letter to Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew; correspondence with International P.E.N. Writers in Prison Committee; newscuttings

21. ‘Khamphan Pradith, Laos’, 1989-1992, including papers documenting Sydney Centre activities relating to the imprisonment of writer Khamphan Pradith in Laos, including letters from Khamphan Pradith, letters and circulars from International Pen Writers in Prison Committee and attachments, correspondence with Australian Dept. of Foreign Affairs and Trade

22. ‘Danylo Shunuk’, 1976-1985, including papers documenting Sydney Centre activities relating to the imprisonment and exile of writer Danylo Shumuk by the U.S.S.R., including correspondence with International P.E.N., letters to Shumuk, correspondence with the Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, and letters to the Australian ambassador to the U.S.S.R., and the U.S.S.R. Ambassador to Australia; newscuttings

23. ‘Professor Vjenceslav Cizek’, 1980-1991, including papers documenting Sydney Centre activities relating to the imprisonment of writer Vjenceslav Cizek in Yugoslavia, including correspondence with International P.E.N. Writers in Prison Committee, correspondence with Cizek, correspondence with the Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Australian ambassador to Yugoslavia, letter to the Yugoslavian Charge d’Affaires in Australia, letters and attachments from the Professor Cizek Freedom Committee; photographs of Vjenceslav Cizek

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