PEN South Africa is gravely concerned by the abduction and detention on December 6th 2017 of Patrice Nganang, a Cameroonian-American writer, poet, and professor. Nganang, a Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative literature at Stony Brook University in New York...
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The Women’s Manifesto was tabled and unanimously passed at the PEN International Congress on 21 September 2017 in Lviv, Ukraine. Margie Orford, former PEN SA President and current PEN SA and PEN International Board Member, was on the Advisory Committee...
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PEN SA Board member Gabeba Baderoon has written to the President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, calling for the release of cartoonist and activist Ramón Esono Ebalé. Ebalé is one of the five writers whose...
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PEN SA Board member Nooshin Erfani-Ghadimi has written to the Honduran National Human Rights Ombudsman, Dr. Roberto Herrera Cáceres, urging him to take up PEN Honduras Board Member Cesario Alejandro Félix Padilla Figueroa’s case and work with the Honduran authorities...
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PEN South Africa and the Institute for Creative Arts are hosting an event in Cape Town to mark the Day of the Imprisoned Writer. Find details here. On 15 November, PEN will mark the 36th Day of the Imprisoned Writer,...
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