Ege Dündar

Ege Dündar is a writer who worked with PEN International for 8 years before being elected its youngest board member in a 100-year history. There, he built civil society project supporting writers at risk in Turkey and around the world. Most recently, he led efforts with peers from 62 countries to create the Young Writers Committee, setting up and managing Tomorrow Club to amplify brave young voices across borders.

Dündar's debut poetry collection, "All These Things Aren't Really Lost", was published in 2021 and featured in the anthology "Best New British and Irish Poets 2019–2021". He wrote for Milliyet Daily, Index on Censorship, Daily Mirror, Publishing Perspectives, PEN Transmissions, Bosla Arts, Counterpoints Arts and Mentour Magazines.

He is currently developing a coalition between sister organisations under the Young Voices Network with John Steinmark from Frankfurter Buchmesse and colleagues at PEN, International Publishers Association, World Expression Forum, EIBF and Fondazione Feltrinelli.

Dündar lives in Berlin and works at the Arts & Journalism department of non-profit, public interest media organisation Correctiv. He prepared a report on the State of Exile Media in Europe for Körber Stiftung and worked as a researcher on Artistic Freedom for Free Muse / UNESCO.

His fable book, Duvar (The Wall), was written with his dad Can Dündar, a journalist unlawfully arrested in Turkey in 2015. Although released by a Supreme Court decision, facing a shooter outside the courthouse and illegal confiscations of assets and passports, the family were eventually forced to leave the country.