Pictured: Man Booker Prize winner Paul Beatty signs copies of his book The Sellout. Photo credit: Retha Ferguson, courtesy of Open Book Festival. ‘The Sellout’ was one of the two talks at the 2017 Open Book Festival that were presented...
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This column was originally published in Sunday World and online at Books LIVE: By Carole Bloch We are all aware that increasing attention has been focused on the development of reading culture and on children learning to read and write...
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On Wednesday 5 July 2017 PEN South Africa hosted a panel at ThinkFest! as part of the annual National Arts Festival in Grahamstown. The Ntsikana Room, where the panel was hosted, is situated on the 2nd floor of the Monument...
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In response to the first months of the student protests in 2015 PEN South Africa ran the PEN SA Student Writing Prize and commissioned research into the relationship between the student protesters and the media, as well as the way...
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The PEN South Africa Young Writers to Watch event was held at the 2016 Open Book Festival on Wednesday 7 September at the Homecoming Centre in Cape Town’s District Six. This was the culmination of the PEN SA Student Writing...
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