3rd March – World Day of the Writer

We are all writers in our life. When you talk to ladies of VeronikaLove, you write your love story through the lines of letters and messages in chat. So the World Day of the Writer is everyone's holiday!

World Day of the writer is celebrated in almost all countries every year on March 3. The full name of this holiday is World Day of Peace for the writer, it was established by decision of the 48th Congress of the International PEN Club, which was held from 12 to 18 January 1986.

The PEN Club was founded in London in 1921. The name of the organization is an abbreviation formed by the first letters of the English words Poets, Essayists, Novelists.

The idea of creating the organization belongs to the English writer Mrs. C.A. Dawson Scott. John Galsworthy became the first PEN president. In 1923, the first international congress of the PEN Club was held in London, while Pen Centers were established in 11 countries around the world. Today such centers operate in 130 countries.

It is an international association of writers, which, as stated in the PEN-Club Charter, “advocates the principles of freedom of information within each country and between all countries. Its members pledge to oppose the suppression of free speech in any form in the countries and societies to which they belong, and throughout the world, whenever possible.

The PEN Club advocates for freedom of the press and against the arbitrary use of censorship in peacetime. The PEN Club believes that the necessary advance of humanity towards higher forms of political and economic organization requires free criticism of the government, government and political institutions.
Since freedom implies voluntary restraint, PEN members are committed to opposing negative aspects of the free press, such as false publications, deliberate falsification, distortion of facts or their tendentious dishonest interpretation for political, group and personal goals. ”

The very same holiday - World Writers Day - is celebrated today in many countries of the world. Often, the ceremony of presenting various literary prizes and honoring the most distinguished literary figures are timed to this day.