PEN Internasionaal bring die wêreld se skrywers byeen. Die Vertaal- en Taalregtekomitee van PEN Internasionaal het vyftien jaar gelede vir die eerste keer die Universele Verklaring van Taalregte in Barcelona bekend gemaak. Vandag verklaar dieselfde komitee op ’n byeenkoms in...
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By Margie Orford PEN International’s Writers in Prison Committee conference is held every two years. This year PEN Vlaanderen in Brussels hosted it. The conference took place over the weekend of the 24th to the 27th of March. I represented...
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by Raymond Louw, Vice-President PEN South Africa who represented PEN SA at the conference Some weeks before reformists in Egypt toppled Hosni Mubarak from the Presidency, the country’s Supreme Council for Culture invited 12 representatives of African PEN Centres plus...
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James Whyle – 1st prize – “The Story” PEN: How did you hear about the 2011 PEN/Studzinski Literary award and what motivated you to enter? JW: I heard about it from a sailor called Pierre van Rooyen on a strange...
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by Margie Orford – Female of the Species. Cape Times, April 12 2011 The Turbine Hall in the Tate Modern in London echoes with the feet of the countless tourists who shuffle through, numbed by choice, bad coffee and the...
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