Congratulations to PEN SA members Leon de Kock and Karin Schimke for winning the 2019 Sol Plaatje Translation Award for Flame in the Snow, their English translation of Vlam in die Sneeu. Flame in the Snow is a collection of love letters...
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PEN SA members and staff feature prominently on the programme for the 2018 Poetry in McGregor festival, which this year is themed – appropriately enough, given the drought in the area – The Sound of Water. It is taking place...
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The 2018 edition of the Franschhoek Literary Festival is hosting – well – a host of PEN SA members. This year’s festival, held from 18-20 May in the eponymous Western Cape town, promises an exciting array of events, including a...
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With her characteristic lyricism, Schimke questions the poet’s right or duty to speak, while delivering a meditation on love in all its cruel, gleaming facets, as she traces her own psychic constellations back into the blistering orbit of her father....
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The winners of the South African Literary Awards (SALAs) were announced on Monday evening. Congratulations to PEN SA members Arja Salafranca, Sandra Hill, Leon de Kock and Karin Schimke, as well as to PEN SA Student Writing Prize judge Panashe...
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