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Press Release 11/11/08

International PEN and Temple Translations announce new partnership

International PEN, the world writers' association, is delighted to announce a new partnership with Temple Translations. The international translation company has agreed to support International PEN in a sponsorship enabling the writers' organisation to honour its commitment to fully operating in its three official languages - English, French and Spanish - for the first time.

During the next 12 Months, the two organisations will collaborate to produce materials across all areas of International PEN's work including; programmes promoting continued engagement with reading and writing, publishing and distribution of texts, the removal of barriers to engagement with literature including freedom of expression and the promotion of literature. Documents will be circulated to the 144 PEN Centres in 102 countries worldwide allowing full communication with the PEN membership across the globe as well as to International PEN's worldwide partners.

Caroline McCormick, Executive Director for International PEN, says: "We are delighted to be working with Temple Translations. Linguistic diversity is one of the core tenants of International PEN and the ability to produce all documents in three languages will significantly strengthen our work worldwide."

David Hammond, Managing Director of Temple Translations, adds: "We are pleased to be able to sponsor International PEN in its valuable work. Temple is firmly committed to support this collaboration and assisting International PEN in reaching its target audience in the three official languages."

Temple Translations' current clients include esteemed businesses from across the legal, financial and commercial sectors such as Slaughter and May, Lovells, Deloitte, BBC and Reuters. International PEN is proud and privileged to become part of this international client group.

Note to Editors:

About International PEN

Originally founded in 1921 to promote literature, today International PEN, the world writers' association, has 144 Centres in 102 countries across the globe. Our primary goal is to engage with, and empower, societies and communities across cultures and languages, through reading and writing. We believe that writers can play a crucial role in changing and developing civil society. We do this through the promotion of literature, international campaigning on issues such as translation and freedom of expression and improving access to literature at international, regional and national levels. Our membership is open to all published writers who subscribe to the PEN Charter regardless of nationality, language, race, colour or religion. International PEN is a non-political, organisation and has special consultative status at UNESCO and the United Nations.

For more information about International PEN please contact Emily Bromfield, Communications Director: emly.bromfield@internationalpen.org.uk or +44 20 7405 0338

Web: www.internationalpen.org.uk

About Temple Translations

Temple Translations is an international translation company specialising solely in legal and financial documents. Producing close to 20 million words a year from offices in London and New York, we're in daily contact with legal systems throughout the world. As well as managing our in-house translators, editorial teams in London and New York co-ordinate the work of more than 650 translators worldwide. Our translators are linguistic experts who demonstrate a sound practical understanding of their native legal systems. We also call on a range of industry specific advisors to make quite sure that any technical jargon and terms of art are fully understood and translated accurately. Temple Translations holds both ISO 9001:2000 and Investors in People. Temple is an active council member of the Association of Translation Companies in the UK and a member of the Association of Language Companies in the US.

For more information, please visit: www.templetranslations.com