It was suggested by Kurdish writer Hüseyin Erdem and voted into existence during International PEN's conference in Cambridge in 1988.
Its headquarters are located in Cologne, Germany.
The Center is headed by Dr. Zaradachet Hajo.
The Kurdish PEN is also active in Turkey, where it organized a conference on cultural diversity in March 2005 in Diyarbakır.
It also encourages writers of International PEN to visit Kurdistan and meet Kurdish writers [1].