PEN South Africa has partnered with Open Book since its inaugural festival in 2011 and this year we are very pleased to announce that we are bringing both Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov and PEN SA Executive Vice-President Mandla Langa to...
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PEN South Africa has partnered with Open Book since the inaugural festival in 2011. This year we are bringing Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov and our Executive Vice-President Mandla Langa to the event and the Open Book organisers have generously agreed...
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By Mandla Langa, written for Issue 5 2015 of the newsletter to the PEN SA membership The literary community in South Africa might find a lot to gripe about. However we are spoilt for choice when it comes to subject...
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Jim Pascual Agustin grew up in the Philippines and moved to South Africa in October 1994. His main intention in coming to Cape Town was to be with the enchanting girl he met on top of a bus the previous...
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Click here to read the minutes from the international meeting of the PEN International Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee (TLRC), held in Barcelona in April 2015, as well as some of the articles that were presented. Adré Marshall, PEN South...
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