The 2009 ICORN General Assembly will be hosted by the Catalan PEN in Barcelona, April 21 and 22. This General Assembly is the fourth assembly since the network was established in December 2005, and the last one in the "old" regime of its organisation.
Since the 2008 assembly in Stavanger, the ICORN Administration Centre and the ICORN Advisory Group have been working according to the mandate given by the assembly, to draft the new organizational model for ICORN. It is for the upcoming fourth ICORN General Assembly in Barcelona to approve of and decide upon the new model, suggested to take officially effect from January 1, 2010.
In addittion to the assembly proceedings, The Catalan PEN have organised evening events featuring writers such as Horacio Castellanos Moya, Derek Walcott and Chenjerai Hove.
