Deadline: 30 November 2018 Pro Helvetia Johannesburg, in partnership with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, has announced the 2019 Call for Applications for the ANT Mobility Fund is now open. In the last three years, the impact of the...
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Congratulations to PEN SA member Mandla Langa, who has received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, the University of Fort Hare. He received the PhD in literature during the university’s spring graduation ceremony on Friday 19 October. His conferment...
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Congratulations to PEN SA Honorary Member J.M. Coetzee, who has received the inaugural Mahindra Award for the Humanities from the Mahindra Center for the Humanities, Harvard University. The award, which is named after Anand G. Mahindra ’77 and his wife...
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In line with many of our colleagues at other PEN Centres, the Board of PEN South Africa condemns the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. He had entered the consulate on 2...
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When stalled novelist Charlie Wasserman’s investment-banker wife divorces him, he finds among her belongings a box of letters. Written between 1940 and 1944, the letters reveal a love affair between her grandfather, Theo, a forty-something lawyer at the time, and...
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