Congratulations to former PEN SA Board Member Mike van Graan, who has been awarded the 2018 Hiroshima Prize. The Edita and Ira Morris Hiroshima Foundation for Peace and Culture presents the award to a person who has contributed, in a...
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The Jacana Literary Foundation has announced the longlist for this year’s Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award and anthology. Congratulations to former PEN SA Board member Geoffrey Haresnape and PEN SA members Jim Pascual Agustin, Margaret Clough, Christine Coates, Gail...
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Congratulations to PEN SA member Nick Mulgrew and former PEN SA Board Member Geoffrey Haresnape, who have been named winners of the English Academy of Southern Africa Awards. Haresnape was awarded the Thomas Pringle Award for Ad Hoc Reviews and...
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By Chris Mann, Wordfest Convenor and PEN SA member ‘Mr Pikoli, I hear that you’re investigating the Commissioner of Police’. ‘Yes, Mr President’. ‘Mr Pikoli, I want you to stop the investigation.’ ‘Mr President, I can’t do that.’ Vusi Pikoli,...
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The winners of the inaugural Patricia Schonstein Poetry in McGregor Award were announced at the McGregor Poetry Festival this month. The award, named after PEN SA member Patricia Schonstein, was granted retrospectively from 2013 up until last year. Congratulations to...
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