On Monday 30th September PEN International will be celebrating International Translation Day. As a country endowed with eleven official languages, South Africa is well placed to appreciate the importance of translation in making texts written in one language accessible to...
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Dear PEN members, Dear friends, Some 20 of us are just back from Turkey. It was a long and complex mission in difficult circumstances – difficult because the freedom of expression situation in Turkey has been in decline for almost...
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SA PEN thanks member Mandla Langa for arranging the translation of the Girona Manifesto on Linguistic Rights into all official South African languages for PEN International. The translations are below. The Girona Manifesto arose out of the Universal Declaration of...
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I-PEN International ihlanganisa ndawonye ababhali bamazwe omhlaba. Eminyakeni eyishumi nanhlanu eyedlule, isibophezelo samalungelo okusetshenziswa kwezilimi nesaziwa ngokuthi yi-Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights sethulwa okokuqala emphakathini edolobheni laseBarcelona sethulwa Yikomidi Lezokuhumusha kanye Namalungelo Okusetshenziswa Kwezilimi ngaphansi kwe-PEN International. Namhlanje-ke futhi, lelo...
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I-PEN yamazwe-ngamazwe ihlanganisa ababhali behlabathi. Kwiminyaka elishumi elinesihlanu eyadlulayo, umbutho i-the Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights okokuqala yaziswa esidlangalaleni eBarcelona yiPEN iKomiti yokuguqulela elwela amalungelo eelwimi ekuthiwa yiPEN International’s Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee. Namhlanje iKomiti ekwanye, ihlanganisana kunye eGirona,...
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