The PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature is an annual week-long literary festival held in New York City and Los Angeles. The festival was founded by Salman Rushdie, Esther Allen, and Michael Roberts and was launched in 2005. The festival includes events, readings, conversations, and debates that showcase international literature and new writers. The festival is produced by PEN America, a nonprofit organization that works to advance literature, promote free expression, and foster international literary fellowship. World Voices 2005 The inaugural event was held in New York City from April 18 to April 25, 2005. Participating authors came from 45 different countries and included: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jonathan Ames, Paul Auster, Breyten Breytenbach, Nuruddin Farah, Gish Jen, Ryszard Kapuściński, Khaled Mattawa, Azar Nafisi, Elif Shafak, Wole Soyinka, Ali Bader and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. Selected 2005 Programs Conversation: Chico Buarque and Paul Auster Confronting the Worst: Writing and Catastrophe Don Quixote at 400: A Tribute Crossing Borders: Universal Themes in Children's Literature Literature and Power International Noir The Power of the Pen: Does Writing Change Anything? Writers and Iraq Africa and the World: The Writer’s Role Conversation: Hanan al-Shaykh and Salman Rushdie A Believer Magazine Nighttime Event The Post-National Writer The Way We Love Now Voices from the New Europe Czesław Miłosz and the Conscience of Literature PEN America offers audio downloads and photos from select events on their web site. Issue 7 of the PEN America literary journal also published selections from the 2005 programs. World Voices 2006 The second World Voices Festival was held in New York City from April 26 to April 30, 2006. The Festival theme was Faith & Reason. The Festival featured 137 writers from 41 countries in 57 programs. International participants included: Martin Amis, Margaret Atwood, Gioconda Belli, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, David Grossman, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Etgar Keret, Elias Khoury, Henning Mankell, Adam Michnik, Orhan Pamuk, Anne Provoost, Zadie Smith, Dương Thu Hương, Colm Tóibín, Ko Un, and Jeanette Winterson. Immediately following the 2006 festival, Bill Moyers hosted a television series on PBS entitled "Faith & Reason," which featured participants from the festival. Selected 2006 Programs Tell That Story Again: Writing Myth Now Honor Killings: When Families Commit Murder to Save Face Faith and Politics in America and Elsewhere Faith & Reason: Writers Speak Exiles in America Translation and Globalization The Limits of Tolerance? Multiculturalism Now Just the Facts: Truth & the Internet 51%: