Congratulations to PEN SA member Kirsten Miller, whose novel Comfortable Skin has won the 2017 Aziz Hassim Literary Award (Main category), presented by the Minara Chamber of Commerce in Durban on 21 September 2018. The ceremony for the awards, given...
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Congratulations to PEN SA member Shubnum Khan, who has won the 2018 Octavia Butler Fellowship as part of a Jack Jones Literary Arts retreat in New Mexico, U.S.A. As Shubnum explains: It’s a retreat exclusively for women of colour. You...
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Congratulations to PEN SA members Shubnum Khan, Christine Coates, Arja Salafranca and Tiah Beautement, who have been shortlisted for the 2018 National Arts Festival Short Sharp Stories Awards. This year’s theme is “Instant Exposure”. We received over 120 entries for...
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Khadeejah Bibi Ballim is a hard-working and stubborn first-generation Indian who longs for her beloved homeland and often questions what she is doing on the tip of Africa. At thirty-seven, her daughter Summaya is struggling to reconcile her South African...
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