Beverly Rycroft is a poet and novelist. In 2010 she published a poetry collection, missing (Modjaji Books), and her first novel, A Slim, Green Silence, was published by Umuzi this year. Beverly was awarded second prize in the Sol Plaatje...
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This is the first in a series of profiles on PEN SA’s members. Rachel Zadok is the author of two novels, Gem Squash Tokoloshe (Pan Macmillan, 2005) and Sister-Sister (Kwela Books, 2013). In 2005 she was a runner-up in the...
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By Mandla Langa, Executive Vice President, PEN SA It was with a sense of great sadness that we learnt of the untimely death of André Brink. A quintessentially considerate and polite man, André also participated in non-literary events that coalesced...
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By Geoffrey Haresnape, Vice President, PEN SA & Emeritus Professor of English, UCT The literary community is feeling the loss of an outstanding South African writer and academic figure. André Brink was born in Vrede in the Orange Free State...
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It was with great sadness that PEN South Africa greeted the news that André Brink passed away while returning from Belgium where he had been awarded an honorary doctorate. A prolific and versatile writer, he has shaped the course of...
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