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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PEN believes the US-Africa Leaders’ Summit, ending today in Washington, is an important moment in the promotion of US engagement on the continent. However, the development of US-African trade relations must be paralleled by support for the cementing and extension...
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PEN South Africa calls on all PEN chapters to join the international outrage and protest that is mounting against the sentencing by the Mbabane High Court in Swaziland of Bheki Makhubu, editor of the independent news magazine, The Nation, and...
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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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