Congratulations to Honorary PEN SA member J.M. Coetzee, who has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize: The longlist for the 2016 Man Booker Prize has been announced, including JM Coetzee. There are 13 books on the list, six are...
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PEN SA member Evadeen Brickwood recently spent time in Germany and has written about the readings she gave while she was there: I held three readings: Kinder des Mondes on 30 June 2016 at the Youth-Library in the Prinz-Max-Palais in...
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In 1970, deserving Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn argued that “violence, less and less embarrassed by the limits imposed by centuries of lawfulness, [was] brazenly and victoriously striding across the whole world, unconcerned that its infertility [had] been demonstrated and proved...
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Deadline: 30 September 2016 The Africa Centre is once again offering an artist-in-resident position at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy for “seasoned, mid-late career artists”. PEN SA member Lauren Beukes was previously selected for this residency. The Rockefeller...
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Outside the Lines is both a thriller and a family drama. It tells the story of two women: Cathleen, a troubled young woman living in the northern suburbs of Johannesburg; and Flora, who is the domestic worker at Cathleen’s house....
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