This is part of the PEN SA literary essay series. If you are interested in submitting a piece, contact us on communications@pensouthafrica.co.za. Half-lives, Half-truths: Svetlana Alexievich and the Nuclear Imagination By Hedley Twidle In my twenties I worked for a...
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PEN South Africa held two PEN Dialogues at the 2015 Open Book Festival. Read board member Adré Marshall’s write-up of the first Dialogue: Lives of Writers here. Centre Co-ordinator Lindsay Callaghan attended the second event, Russia Under Putin, on Saturday...
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We’ll be rounding up some of the tweets from the talks at the Open Book Festival 2015 featuring PEN SA members. As you can see from the Open Book programme, there is plenty going on. These tweets are just a...
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PEN South Africa has partnered with Open Book since its inaugural festival in 2011 and this year there will be two PEN Dialogues held at the Festival, both of which include Ukrainian PEN Vice-President and author Andrey Kurkov, who PEN...
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