To mark the hundredth day of imprisoned filmmaker Oleg Sentsov’s indefinite hunger strike in a Siberian penal colony, PEN SA and PEN International Board Member Margie Orford spoke to France 24’s The Debate, in a bid to raise awareness about...
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The Women’s Manifesto was tabled and unanimously passed at the PEN International Congress on 21 September 2017 in Lviv, Ukraine. Margie Orford, former PEN SA President and current PEN SA and PEN International Board Member, was on the Advisory Committee...
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Dear Friends, It has been a profound pleasure and a privilege to reflect on Margie Orford’s tenure as President of PEN South Africa. As I sifted through the various reports and documents that detailed her years of commitment, I was...
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Dear friends It is with great pleasure that I write to you to say goodbye and to welcome Nadia Davids as PEN South Africa’s newly elected president. She is taking up this position at a critical political and moral moment...
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Last month former Books LIVE Editor Jennifer Malec and Books LIVE founder and PEN SA member Ben Williams launched a new books website called The Reading List. This month we are excited to announce that the two of them have...
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