Below you’ll find a list of events featuring PEN South Africa members, as well as a selection of other noteworthy literary events, classes and workshops happening around South Africa. If there is an event you’d like us to feature let...
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This novel is a moving account of dealing with grief. Written in the first person, a daughter mourns her father. She unexpectedly falls in love six months after her father’s death, but everyday life is still full of memories, places...
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In Losing the Plot, well-known scholar and writer Leon de Kock offers a lively and wide-ranging analysis of postapartheid South African writing which, he contends, has morphed into a far more flexible and multifaceted entity than its predecessor. If postapartheid...
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PEN South Africa, in association with Wits Journalism, invites you to attend a dialogue on the #FeesMustFall movement and media representation. The upcoming anniversary of the #FeesMustFall movement offers a time to reflect on the students’ relationship with the media,...
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The shortlist for the 2016 Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award and Anthology has been announced. Congratulations to PEN SA member Athol Williams who has been shortlisted for his poem “Visit at Tea Time”. Williams won last year’s award for...
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