By Anita Giraud Towards the successful end of my Post PhD’s research I decided that my future lay in writing for the multitudes and no longer for a select, academic minority. To this end, I loosely began to collect data...
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Free the Word! at the Orbit Thursday 4th December 2014 7.30pm – 8.30pm Orbit Jazz Club, 81 De Korte Street, Johannesburg, Gauteng Mandla Langa, Beatrice Lamwaka, Makhosazana Xaba and Masande Ntshanga in conversation with Michele Magwood. PEN International, South African...
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SA PEN will again be partnering with Open Book and holding two PEN Dialogue events during the festival, so make a note in your diaries as follows: Wednesday, 17th September 2014, 4 – 5 p.m., Fugard Annexe 2 – PEN...
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A talk given at Wordfest during the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, July 2014 by Professor Geoffrey Haresnape, Vice President of SA PEN Before I move on to the issue of the freedom of poets worldwide, and particularly in China...
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South African Nobel literature laureate never separated life from politics, and her work was richer for it by Margie Orford Nadine Gordimer was a passionately cerebral writer, and her death confirms the passing of a generation of South African writers...
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