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25 unusual facts about pen


Cynthia Ozick

Ozick was on the shortlist for the 2005 Man Booker International Prize, and in 2008 she was awarded the PEN/Nabokov Award and the PEN/Malamud Award, which was established by Bernard Malamud’s family to honor excellence in the art of the short story.

Dewi Morgan

Dewi Morgan moved with his family to Pen-y-garn when he was two years old, after his father built and opened a grocer’s shop there called Garn House.

Gloria Guardia

She is the founder of the Panamanian chapter of the PEN-International and served as one of the seven executive council members of PEN from 1997 to 2002.

Jack Mapanje

PEN's president, US novelist Larry McMurtry, stated that "the point of the award is to generate enough heat so Mapanje gets out of jail".

Mark Slouka

In 2011, Slouka received the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay for Essays from the Nick of Time.

Pen-Link

One of the more publicized uses of Pen-Link's products was during the Laci Peterson murder case, where wiretaps taken with Pen-Link/LINCOLN, were used as evidence against Scott Peterson.

Their products the Pen-Link 8 and LINCOLN 2 provide complete systems for electronic surveillance of nearly any form of electronic communications, including wire line, wireless, satellite, VoIP, Voice over Packet and 3G communication including Push-to-Talk, instant messaging, chat, e-mails, and web traffic.

Pen-tailed treeshrew

A study of the treeshrew in Malaysia found that it spends several hours consuming the equivalent of 10 to 12 glasses of wine with an alcohol content of up to 3.8% every night drinking naturally fermented nectar of the bertam palm.

Measurements of a biomarker of ethanol breakdown suggest that they may be metabolizing it by a pathway that is not used as heavily by humans, a fellow member of the grandorder of mammals Euarchonta.

Pen-y-Bont

Bridgend, a town in south Wales with the Welsh name Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr

Pen-y-Bont railway station

The station is located closer to the villages of Crossgates and Fron than it is to Penybont itself, and is now the closest station to the town of Rhayader, about 9 miles to the west.

Pen-y-garn

Penygarn, Torfaen - a village in Torfaen, in the ward of St Cadocs/Penygarn, Wales

Pen-y-Lan

Pen-Y-Lan Hall is a grade II listed mansion located near the village of Ruabon in Wrexham County Borough

Pen-y-Pass

The Llanberis pass road extends beyond Pen-y-Pass to join the Beddgelert to Capel Curig road at the Pen-y-Gwryd hotel.

Pen-yr-Orsedd Quarry

The Pen-yr-Orsedd quarry was one of the major slate producers of the Nantlle Valley, supplying over 10,000 tons of product in 1864.

Pen, India

When Shayastakhan was sent against Sivaji, a detachment of the Moghal army had been kept at Pen but it was subsequently routed by him.

PEN/Edward and Lily Tuck Award for Paraguayan Literature

The award was established by author Lily Tuck to assist with the translation of Paraguayan literature from Spanish or Guarani into English.

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

The PEN/Faulkner Foundation is an outgrowth of William Faulkner's generosity in using his 1949 Nobel Prize winnings to create the William Faulkner Foundation; among the charitable goals of the foundation was "to establish a fund to support and encourage new fiction writers."

:Not to be confused with the William Faulkner Prize or William Faulkner Award

PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award

2006 - Sibel Edmonds - a translator who was fired from her job at the FBI after complaining of intelligence failures and poor performance in her unit.

1995 - Joyce Meskis, Denver bookstore owner who successfully challenged a Colorado law barring stores open to children from selling novels and art books with sexual content, and who continued to sell Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses in 1989, donating 25% of proceeds to anticensorship organizations.

PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship

The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship is awarded by the PEN American Center annually to a writer of children's or young-adult fiction of high literary caliber "at a crucial moment in his or her career to complete a book-length work-in-progress." The author receives $5,000 and was made possible by PEN Member Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, the Newbery Medal winner of such books as Sang Spell and Shiloh.

PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize

2011 Susanna Daniel, Stiltsville and Danielle Valore Evans, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self (co-winners)

Pigpen

Pig-Pen, a character in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts

Thakar tribe

The Thakars were originally living in all the hilly areas of Sahyadri in Maharashtra,Karjat Khalapur, Panvel, Sudhagad and Pen talukas of Raigad district, Kannad, Khultabad,and Soegaon Talukas of Aurangabad Akole taluka in Ahmednagar districts etc. in the Indian state of Maharashtra in India.


Aldo Zargani

It has won three Italian awards (Ischia International Journalism Award, Premio Acqui Storia, Premio Sant'Anna di Stazzema) and was shortlisted for four prestigious literary prizes (Premio Viareggio, Premio Pisa, Premio Lucca and Pen Club Award).

Alex Battler

He has been married since 1970 to Valentina Vladimirovna Alieva (currently named Valentina Battler) – a poet and artist known under the pen name Wan Liushi.

Anne Desclos

After completing her studies at the Sorbonne, she worked as a journalist until 1946 when she joined Gallimard Publishers as the editorial secretary for one of its imprints where she began using the pen name of Dominique Aury.

Bohdan Kaminský

Bohdan Kaminský (pen name of Karel Bušek) (February 24, 1859 in a hamlet Husa near Sychrov – July 13, 1929 in Poděbrady) was a Czech poet and translator.

C.J. Stone

Christopher James Stone (born 16 June 1953), pen name C.J. Stone, is best known for his columns in The Guardian Weekend and The Big Issue.

Cauldron-Born

In the end, Ellidyr, son of Pen-Llarcau, gave his life in this manner.

David Fennario

His pen name, "Fennario," given to him by a former girlfriend, is from a Bob Dylan song, "Pretty Peggy-O."

Decoder pen

Fans of the adventure games released by Sierra Entertainment in the 1980s such as King's Quest and Space Quest are also familiar with the decoder pen, which was used to reveal the answers to hints in the hints book sold for each game.

Dieter Cunz

He is also said to have co‑authored several detective novels or Kriminalromane in collaboration with Oskar Seidlin and Richard Plant (1910–1998) under the collective pen‑name of Stefan Brockhoff (q.v.).

Enver Mamedov

Enver Mammadov's mother's maiden name was Ivanov, and he occasionally used it as his pen name during his media career.

Georges-Paul Wagner

He has defended in court Jean-Marie Le Pen, as well as members of the OAS terrorist movement who tried to assassinate General Charles de Gaulle at Le Petit-Clamart in 1962.

Harold Goodwin

Harold L. Goodwin (1914–1990), American author of popular science, adventure and science fiction books mostly for young people (Rip Foster series, under pen name Blake Savage, and Rick Brant series, between 1947 and 1968, as John Blaine)

Hasrat

Notable Urdu poets that use this pen name include: Muhammad Abdul Qadeer Siddiqi Qadri 'Hasrat' (1871–1962), Hasrat Jaipuri (1922-1977) and Hasrat Mohani(1875-1951).

Hot Off the Griddle

Batman and Robin ask gossip columnist Jack O'Shea to pen a fake story about a rare canary at the Natural History Museum in order to snare her.

Iran Teymourtash

She became an active member of PEN International and André Malraux's International Association of Writers for the Defense of Culture.

James Otis

James Otis Kaler (1848–1912) (pen name: James Otis), American journalist and author of children’s literature

Joaquin Dominguez

He inititally joined the Murrayfield team on a trial basis in September 2013, before putting pen to paper on a contract running until summer 2013, after impressing Head Coach Alan Solomons.

Joyce Carlson

Carlson created a pen-and-ink portfolio of her sketches several months after she began working at Disney, and presented it to her employers.

Kasim Razvi

He is quoted to have said "Death with the sword in hand, is always preferable to execution by a mere stroke of the pen", prompting the Indian government to call him the "Nizam's Frankenstein monster".

Katherine Marlowe

Katherine Marlowe, the pen-name of novelist Charlotte Vale-Allen

Lamy

Notable author Neil Gaiman wrote his book American Gods with his Lamy 2000, which he refers to as his "novel writing pen".

Lib.ru

On April 1, 2004 the "KM Online" media company, which is known for forming its own library by copying texts from the other electronic libraries, issued a lawsuit against Maksim Moshkow's Library in the name of Eduard Gevorkian, Marina Alekseyeva (pen-name "Alexandra Marinina"), Vasili Golovachov and Elena Katasonova.

Livescribe

For example, in 2009, Delta Air Lines accused the manager of Atlanta's airport of using a Livescribe pen to illegally record a meeting of city and airline officials without their consent.

Miguel Pecci Saavedra

He was best known for his plays under the pen name "Arnaldo Miriel" such as Los convidados a una cena, a comedy in one act, Maria del Carmen, a drama performed at the Teatro Nacional in 1925, and Manos Blancas, a monologue recited at the Teatro Granados in 1924.

Miserden

The battle and siege scenes in Brother Cadfael's Penance by Ellis Peters (a pen name of Edith Pargeter) are set in the castle built by the Musard family, given the name of "La Musarderie" in the novel.

Misterton, Somerset

Ellen Buckingham Mathews (1853 - 1920) an English novelist under the pen name Helen Mathers was born in the village.

Moby Doll

Moby Doll was shown to the public in a pen at Burrard Drydocks but was listless and did not eat for the first two months in captivity.

National Encounter Party

However, the PEN was reduced to eight seats in the Chamber and seven in the Senate as the Colorado Party regained their majority in both houses, and the alliance's presidential candidate, Domingo Laino finished second with 43.9% of the vote.

Padilla Maduro

The ends and the top represent pen points and are a tribute to his father, Cuban ex-patriate, poet, writer and teacher Heberto Padilla.

Pendennis

Pen, heartbroken, leaves home to study at St Boniface's college in Oxbridge.

Peter Pindar

Peter Pindar, a pen name of John Wolcot (1738–1819), satirist, born in Dodbrooke in Devon

Peter Spier

Like other children's illustrators such as Beatrix Potter or Christopher Wormell, Peter Spier demonstrates his talent and skills as an artist/illustrator using pen, ink and watercolour on paper.

Questionable Content

Penelope Gaines (often called Penny or Pen-pen over her objections, or will have her name pronounced to rhyme with "Antelope" to similar objections) is an employee of Coffee of Doom.

Richard Foster

Kendell Foster Crossen (1910–1981), American writer who used the pen-name Richard Foster

Rius

Eduardo del Río (born June 20, 1934, and better known by his pen name Rius) is a Mexican intellectual, political cartoonist, and writer born in Zamora, Michoacán.

Silas M. Stilwell

He wrote on questions of finance, many of his articles appeared in the New York Herald from 1860 to 1872, under the pen-name of "Jonathan Ohlbuck."

Simeon Ivanov

In February 2012, Ivanov was close to signing with A PFG club Vidima Rakovski, but eventually put pen to paper on a contract with second division side Akademik Sofia.

Skin Games

Despite sinking with relatively little trace, Wendy Page and Jim Marr went on to pen some big hits for Martine McCutcheon (Perfect Moment) and Billie Piper (Honey to the Bee, Because We Want To) and also wrote and produced Dangerous To Know on Hilary Duff's second album.

The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the writer hired to pen the script was Eric Bress, who has written scripts for the television show, Kyle XY.

The Eyes of the Dragon

Michael Taylor and Jeff Vintar will pen the script, with Taylor and Bill Haber as executive producers.

The Relief of Belsen

Eventually, after a raid on the hospital by the Luftwaffe, Gonin challenges Johnston's competence, calling him a "pen-pusher", but he has loyal friends who point to his past bravery.

Tour du Crédit Lyonnais

In his song "Lyon Presqu'île" on the album The Superb, Benjamin Biolay (born in Villefranche-sur-Saone) includes "round in pen" in his view of the main monuments of the city.

Tracy Tormé

"The Royale" and "Manhunt" went through such significant rewrites and treatments before being filmed that Tormé insisted he not be credited directly; using the pen names Keith Mills and Terry Devereaux respectively.

Una Troy Walsh

Writing under the pen name of "Elizabeth Connor", she began her career in 1936 with the publication of the novel Mount Prospect which was banned in the Irish Free State.

Welsh Dragon

Note that Arthur's father was named Uther Pendragon ('Pendragon': 'Pen' (Head) and 'Dragon', being translated by Geoffrey as "dragon's head").