PEN South Africa and the Institute for Creative Arts, University of Cape Town invite you to join us in commemorating PEN’s Day of the Imprisoned Writer on 15 November 2017. It is a day that marks, globally, the persecution, and...
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PEN South Africa is delighted to announce that the inaugural PEN South Africa Freedom of Expression Champion Award will be awarded to Raymond Louw. The annual PEN South Africa Freedom of Expression Champion Award has been established to recognise the...
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The Day of the Imprisoned Writer is held by PEN every year on 15 November to highlight and campaign for writers that are facing charges or who have been imprisoned for expressing themselves. The five cases that PEN is focusing...
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This is one of the cases highlighted by PEN on the Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2016. Read about the other cases here. A poet and a Palestinian citizen of Israel, Dareen Tatour is currently standing trial on charges of...
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This is one of the cases highlighted by PEN on the Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2016. Read about the other cases here. Novelist and journalist Ahmed Naji is currently serving a two-year prison sentence in Egypt for ‘violating public...
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