PEN SA welcomes the news last week that the Competition Commission “has initiated an investigation against the Publishers’ Association of South Africa (PASA) and its over 91 members for allegedly fixing the prices of books”. PASA is the largest publishing...
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Interview by Nick Mulgrew Perhaps more than any other magazine in South African literature – or, at the very least, as much as the likes of Staffrider, or Contrast, or Classic – English Alive has catalysed writing careers, and inspired people to...
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To mark Robin Malan stepping away from the editorship of the high school literary magazine English Alive, we’ve compiled a few tributes from PEN SA members to this extraordinary man and his work. Be sure, too, to read our interview with...
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The first fortnight of September sees a number of book festivals in South Africa’s two largest cities. Most exciting are the South African Book Fair (7–9 September) taking place in Johannesburg, and Cape Town’s best bookish gathering, the Open Book Festival (5–9...
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Deadline: 30 September 2018 ANFASA, the Academic and Non-Fiction Authors’ Association of South Africa, has announced the 2018 round of their grant scheme to benefit authors of academic and general non-fiction works. The grants, of around R25000, allows authors to...
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