Below you’ll find a list of events featuring PEN South Africa members, as well as a selection of other noteworthy literary events happening around South Africa. If there is an event you’d like us to feature let us know. Schreiner...
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“Of course, you’re never expecting the lion, are you? Like something coming up in the rear-view mirror. Much closer than it appears.” When a lion at a breeding park mauls an old school friend of his, Con steps in as...
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There’s an out-of-control swarm of insects hampering the completion of Nineveh, a luxury estate outside Cape Town. When Katya Grubbs, proprietor of Painless Pest Relocations, is called in, she discovers far more to exorcise than the mysterious infestation. Her own...
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Henrietta Rose-Innes wins 2008 Caine Prize South African writer Henrietta Rose-Innes has won the 2008 Caine Prize for African writing for her short story “Poison”. Henrietta won the 2007 HSBC/SA PEN Literary Award for “Poison” which was published in African...
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