SA PEN (South African PEN Centre), an affiliate of International PEN, the international body representing poets, essayists, editors and novelists, expresses its deep concern over recent conduct by government leaders and the authorities against the Press. After lodging a string...
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By Margie Orford PEN South Africa has had a very busy 2014 – this letter highlights some of what we have done. There is much more in our newsletters and on the website. There have been new people, new projects,...
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South African PEN, an affiliate of PEN International, with 144 Centres worldwide, defends free expression and promotes the interests of poets, essayists, editors, novelists, writers and journalists. We are seriously alarmed at the increasing reports of police officers harassing, detaining...
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On censorship… Censorship is a recent and painful memory for South Africans. In an event organized for the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Liu Xiabo, several of the writers invited to read in his honour had been imprisoned for writing things...
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I was privileged to attend this year’s PEN International Congress held in Gyeongju in South Korea. This was after quite a busy PEN year in which some of the projects around the Secrecy Bill and our literacy partnership with Nalibali...
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