Congratulations to PEN SA member ZP Dala, whose novel What About Meera has won the Debut prize in the inaugural Minara Aziz Hassim Literary Awards for writers from KwaZulu-Natal. Carol Campbell won the Main Category prize for her novel Esther’s...
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ZP Dala, a debut novelist and PEN South Africa member, was subjected to a severe physical assault and harassment after she expressed admiration for the work of Salman Rushdie amongst others. Instead of celebrating the launch of her first novel...
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What About Meera tells the tale of Meera Narain, a twenty-two-year-old woman from Durban who escapes her abusive arranged marriage to run away to Dublin, where she takes up a job as a care-giver at a school for autistic children....
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