国际笔会由凯瑟琳·艾米·道森·斯科特夫人于1921年在伦敦创立,(另一说是英国小说家高尔斯华绥创立),笔会宗旨是促进各国作家间友谊与智力合作,致力于保障作家权益、争取言论自由并免受政治迫害的非政治非政府的作家组织。笔会一成立,受到各国作家的拥护和支持,并以不同方式加入其组织,目前世界各国已成立一百多个分支机 The International PEN was founded by Mrs. Catherine Amy Dawson Scott in London in 1921 (the other was founded by the British novelist Galsworthy). The PEN aims to promote friendship and intellectual cooperation among writers from all over the world, A non-governmental non-governmental writer organization dedicated to safeguarding the rights and interests of writers and seeking freedom of expression and freedom from political persecution. With the support and support of writers from all countries and its joining in different ways, the pen parliaments have set up more than one hundred branches in various countries in the world