Ege Dündar worked with PEN International for 8 years, before being elected its youngest board member in a 100 year history. There, he worked with inspiring colleagues at various roles to support writers at risk around the world. Recently he leads efforts with colleagues from 62 countries to create ”the Young Writers Committee” setting up the platform Tomorrow Club -www.tomorrowclub.world- for amplifying brave young voices.He works at the Arts & Journalism department of non-profit, public interest media organisation Correctiv.His debut poetry collection “All These Things Aren’t Really Lost” was published in 2022, featured in the anthology ”Best New British and Irish Poets 2019-2021”He wrote for Milliyet Daily, Index on Censorship, Daily Mirror, Bosla Arts, Counterpoints Arts and Mentour Magazine, produced a report on the State of Exile Media in Europe for Körber Stiftung in Germany and worked as a researcher on Artistic Freedom for Free Muse / UNESCO.The fable book, Duvar (The Wall) was written with his dad, Can Dündar, a journalist unlawfully arrested in Turkey. 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.
