Slovenian PEN president resigns in wake of sexist comments

Ljubljana, 16 July - Writer Evald Flisar has resigned as the head of Slovenian PEN in the aftermath of a scandal over his sexist remarks in a leaked e-mail correspondence with an up-and-coming female literary critic.

Ljubljana Evald Flisar resigns as head of Slovenian PEN. Photo: Daniel Novakovič/STA

Ljubljana
Evald Flisar resigns as head of Slovenian PEN.
Photo: Daniel Novakovič/STA

The rest of this news item is available to subscribers.
The news item consists of 1.546 characters (without spaces) or 296 words words.

Buy the news item. Price: 2 tokens; on account: 0 tokens.

ep/av
© STA, 2016