Congratulations to PEN SA member ZP Dala, whose novel What About Meera has won the Debut prize in the inaugural Minara Aziz Hassim Literary Awards for writers from KwaZulu-Natal. Carol Campbell won the Main Category prize for her novel Esther’s...
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PEN SA member Athol Williams has been named the winner of the 2015 Sol Plaatje EU Poetry Award for his poem “Streetclass Diseases” at an event hosted by Poetry Africa on 17 October 2015. Congratulations to Athol! Read his winning...
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The shortlist for the 2015 Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award has been announced. The longlist included five PEN SA members and two have made it onto the shortlist: Jim Pascual Agustin and Athol Williams. All of the longlisted poems...
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PEN SA member Pieter Scholtz who has been named the winner of the Green Heart City Movement and South African Writers’ Circle (SAWC)’s Forestry Tale Writing Competition, which was a feature of the 2015 SANKOFA Book and Design Fair in...
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Congratulations to PEN SA member Lauren Beukes, who has a 2015 Mbokodo Award for Creative Writing. The annual awards recognise women in the arts and highlight the contribution they make to the ongoing development of the arts in South Africa....
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