Belgrade will host the 77th International Pen Congress which will be held in 2011, it was decided at a congress in Linz, Austria, announced the president of the Serbian Pen, Vida Ognjenovic.

Ognjenovic, together with Serbian PEN Vice President Vladislav Bajac, was part of the Serbian delegation that participated in the World PEN Congress in Linz at which Belgrade was awarded the organization of the most important gathering of writers in 2011, after Japan in 2010.