Update #8 to RAN 02/13 On 7 June 2015, the Saudi Supreme Court confirmed the sentence of 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes imposed on editor Raif (or Raef) Badawi after conviction of “insulting Islam” and “founding a liberal...
Read More
A proposed policy to regulate online content in South Africa is poised to return the country to a worrisome state of severely curtailed free expression. The Draft Online Regulation Policy proposed by the Film and Publication Board (FPB) of South...
Read More
Congratulations to PEN SA members Michiel Heyns and Mark Gevisser who both won prizes at the Media24 Books Literary Awards on Friday, 5 June 2015. Michiel’s novel A Sportful Malice won the Herman Charles Bosman Prize for English Fiction and...
Read More
May 13, 2015 Dear PEN members, dear friends, This spring we undertook an ambitious three country intervention in Latin America. Sixteen PEN centres took part. We called it the PEN Summit of the Americas and it unfolded as we moved...
Read More
Sarah Lotz’s extraordinary, unmissable follow-up to the book that made headlines around the world, The Three – perfect for fans of The Shining Girls, The Passage and Lost. Four days into a five day singles cruise on the Gulf of...
Read More
