PEN South Africa and the Institute for Creative Arts present the 2018 Day of the Imprisoned Writer, on which writers will give readings and presentations in solidarity with jailed artists around the world. This year’s event will be hosted on...
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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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In 1970, deserving Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn argued that “violence, less and less embarrassed by the limits imposed by centuries of lawfulness, [was] brazenly and victoriously striding across the whole world, unconcerned that its infertility [had] been demonstrated and proved...
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Below you’ll find a list of events featuring PEN South Africa members, as well as a selection of other noteworthy literary events, classes and workshops happening around South Africa. If there is an event you’d like us to feature let...
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Press release from the Sunday Times: Hunger Eats a Man and Rape: A South African Nightmare named winners of the 2016 Sunday Times Literary Awards Johannesburg, Saturday 14 May 2016: The winners of the prestigious 2016 Sunday Times Literary Awards...
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