A Worldwide Reading in support of Ashraf has been organised by the international literature festival Berlin (ilb) for today, the 14th January 2016. Ashraf is a Palestinian poet that has been sentenced to death for apostasy in Saudi Arabia. PEN...
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Holiday greetings to all our PEN South Africa members and friends By Margie Orford This has been as busy and tumultuous a year for PEN South Africa as it has been for so many people in South Africa and around...
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Pictured: Fredrik Elg presenting on the SA Cities of Refuge Project at the ICORN-Pen International summit in Amsterdam in late May 2015. By Michael Schmidt The South African Cities of Refuge Project grew out of a meeting in Johannesburg in...
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The last two weeks have seen a convulsion in tertiary education in South Africa. Students from all universities have come out in large numbers to protest the costs of an education that the majority of students and their hard-pressed families...
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Mexican-American writer Jennifer Clement was elected as PEN International President during the 81st PEN International Congress which was held in Quebec City, Canada from October 13 – 16 2015. This follows Canadian writer John Ralston Saul stepping down from the...
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