This is turning out to be a great year for PEN SA Board Member Sisonke Msimang. Shortly after being shortlisted for the 2018 Alan Paton Award for her memoir Always Another Country, she has been named one of four winners...
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Congratulations to PEN SA members Jolyn Phillips, Ken Barris, Qarnita Loxton, and Michiel Heyns, whose books have been shortlisted in the 2018 Media24 Books Awards. These annual awards serve to recognise the best work published during the previous year by Media24...
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The Sunday Times Literary Awards shortlists, for the Alan Paton Award and Barry Ronge Fiction Prize, have been announced. This follows the naming of the longlists earlier this year. Jennifer Platt, Sunday Times’ Books editor says: “These 10 books are...
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Congratulations to PEN SA member Albie Sachs, who has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Michigan State University, in the USA. Two men who have made a tremendous impact on the betterment of society, especially in Africa, will be honored...
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Congratulations to PEN SA member Henrietta Rose-Innes, whose short story “Snake Story”, originally published by the Johannesburg Review of Books, has been nominated for the African Speculative Fiction Society’s Nommo Award for Short Story. The Nommo Awards recognise works of...
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