Kirsten Miller Wins the 2017 Aziz Hassim Literary Award (Main Category)

Congratulations to PEN SA member Kirsten Miller, whose novel Comfortable Skin has won the 2017 Aziz Hassim Literary Award (Main category), presented by the Minara Chamber of Commerce in Durban on 21 September 2018.

The ceremony for the awards, given in memory of the late author Aziz Hassim (most notably the author of The Lotus People), was keynoted by fellow PEN SA member Shubnum Khan. Raashida Khan won the debut category of the awards for her novel Mirror Cracked.