This is turning out to be a great year for PEN SA Board Member Sisonke Msimang. Shortly after being shortlisted for the 2018 Alan Paton Award for her memoir Always Another Country, she has been named one of four winners...
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Congratulations to PEN SA Board Member Sisonke Msimang, whose book Always Another Country: A Memoir of Exile and Home has been shortlisted for the 2018 Alan Paton Award. Al-Jazeera journalist Asad Essa said that the book “must be read” in...
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Johannesburg’s Kingsmead College is hosting its seventh annual Book Fair on Saturday 12 May 2018, from 8 a.m.to 6 p.m. Taking place at the school’s Rosebank campus, this small but jam-packed festival has line-ups for teens and children alongside their...
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The 2018 edition of the Franschhoek Literary Festival is hosting – well – a host of PEN SA members. This year’s festival, held from 18-20 May in the eponymous Western Cape town, promises an exciting array of events, including a...
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Congratulations to the very many PEN members whose books made the longlists of the Sunday Times Literary Awards – the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize and the Alan Paton Non-Fiction Award. Books or books translated by PEN SA members on the...
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