The Institute for Creative Arts (ICA) launches its 2018 Great Texts/Big Questions lecture series in April, with a line-up that features acclaimed and award-winning writers, artists, academics and musicians, and includes PEN SA members. The theme underpinning this Great Texts/Big...
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Congratulations to PEN SA Board Member Sisonke Msimang, Head of Communications Nick Mulgrew, and members Efemia Chela and Simone Haysom, who have been named in the Africa Centre’s 2017 Artists in Residency Shortlist. These shortlisted artists – as well as...
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Congratulations to PEN SA member Efemia Chela who is among 15 writers and artists from Africa shortlisted for the 2017 Gerald Kraak Award. Chela was shortlisted for her essay on Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts, ‘Sailing with the Argonauts’, which was published...
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PEN SA extends a warm welcome to Sisonke Msimang, who has been co-opted onto its Board. Msimang was asked to share what motivated her to agree to take on this assignment, what she hopes to accomplish during her tenure as...
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Congratulations to PEN SA members Sisonke Msimang and Megan Ross, who have both won 2017 Brittle Paper Literary Awards. Msimang received The Brittle Paper Award for Essays/Think Pieces for her piece “All your faves are problematic: A brief history of...
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