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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Congratulations to PEN SA Board Member Sisonke Msimang, whose book Always Another Country: A Memoir of Exile and Home has been shortlisted for the 2018 Alan Paton Award. Al-Jazeera journalist Asad Essa said that the book “must be read” in...
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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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The 2018 edition of the Franschhoek Literary Festival is hosting – well – a host of PEN SA members. This year’s festival, held from 18-20 May in the eponymous Western Cape town, promises an exciting array of events, including a...
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