Congratulations to PEN SA member Carien Smith for being selected as a recipient of the 2019 Iceland Writers Retreat Alumni Award. This prestigious award is funded in its entirety by generous IWR alumni and friends. It gives its recipients full...
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The annual PEN International New Voices Award aims to encourage new writing in the more than 104 countries that PEN operates in and provides a much needed space for young and unpublished writers to promote their work. The 2015 winner,...
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Carien Smith’s story “Likkewaan”/”Leguan” was nominated by PEN Afrikaans for the 2015 PEN International New Voices Award. PEN South Africa’s nominees were Liam Kruger for “Sarah” and Genna Gardini for “Performance Scale”. Read “Leguan”, translated from Afrikaans by Marius Swart,...
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Carien Smith’s story “Likkewaan”/”Leguan” was nominated by PEN Afrikaans for the 2015 PEN International New Voices Award. PEN South Africa’s nominees were Liam Kruger for “Sarah” and Genna Gardini for “Performance Scale”. “Likkewaan” is published in the Nuwe Stories 3...
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Carien Smith’s story “Likkewaan” / “Leguan”” was nominated by PEN Afrikaans and then longlisted for the 2015 PEN International New Voices Award. PEN South Africa’s nominations were Genna Gardini’s poem “Performance Scale” and Liam Kruger’s short story “Sarah“. Carien recently...
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