Congratulations to PEN SA member Carien Smith for being selected as a recipient of the 2019 Iceland Writers Retreat Alumni Award. This prestigious award is funded in its entirety by generous IWR alumni and friends. It gives its recipients full...
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Congratulations to PEN SA members Leon de Kock and Karin Schimke for winning the 2019 Sol Plaatje Translation Award for Flame in the Snow, their English translation of Vlam in die Sneeu. Flame in the Snow is a collection of love letters...
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Congratulations to PEN SA member Ronnie Kasrils and Head of Communications Nick Mulgrew for winning South African Literary Awards at a ceremony on 6 November 2018. Kasrils won a Lifetime Achievement Award, alongside fellow awardee with Hermann Giliomee. Mulgrew won...
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Congratulations to PEN SA member Megan Ross, who has been nominated for the second year running in the Brittle Paper Awards. This year she is nominated for the 2018 Brittle Paper Award for Poetry, for her poem “Origin Myths”, “a...
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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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