Congratulations to PEN SA member Zakes Mda, who has won the 2014/2015 University of Johannesburg Main Prize for his novel Rachel’s Blue. Zakes was one of four PEN SA members shortlisted for the 2014/2015 University of Johannesburg Prizes. Read the...
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PEN SA’s Executive Vice President Mandla Langa has been longlisted in the Fiction category of the FT/OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices Awards for his book, The Texture of Shadows. PEN SA member Petina Gappah has also been longlisted in that category for...
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Congratulations to PEN SA members Michiel Heyns and Mark Gevisser who both won prizes at the Media24 Books Literary Awards on Friday, 5 June 2015. Michiel’s novel A Sportful Malice won the Herman Charles Bosman Prize for English Fiction and...
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PEN centres around the world have been invited by PEN International to select and submit works by budding, unpublished authors, aged 18 to 30, for entry into their New Voices Award. The award aims to encourage new writing in the...
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PEN SA member Angela Lloyd has won the short-form category prize in the 2015 FLF SA Wine Writers’ Awards. Angela’s “evocative writing and eloquent phrasing” was complimented during the announcement. A panel of independent judges, comprised of two local wine...
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