Центар у Босни и Херцеговини) is one of the 148 centres of PEN International, and is based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

As part of Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Herzegovina didn't have the right for membership as an independent center, according to the rules of the International PEN.

Thirty-six writers managed to reach the Holiday Inn Hotel that day, and decided to establish the association.

PEN Center of the Republic of Slovenia also helped in organizing and collecting aid for the writers, artists and intellectuals of Sarajevo during the siege, which was delivered to the city under difficult circumstances.

[2] The center serves on the association and for the benefit of its members – writers, journalists, editors, publishers, publicists, literary critics and historians, literary translators, and other intellectuals and authors, representing their interests in cooperation with an authorities and organizations in the country and abroad, with the aim of "affirming and promoting literature, tolerance, culture of dialogue and freedom of expression in accordance with the Charter of the International P.E.N.