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ThePEN Literary Awardsare running out of authors to honorandfacing a credibility problem among their peers.

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We stand in solidarity with a free Palestine.

We refuse to be honored by an organization that acts as a cultural front for American exceptionalism.

And we refuse to take part in celebrations that will serve to overshadow PENs complicity in normalizing genocide.

The news comes after months of criticism over the organizations response to the war in Gaza.

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