Holiday greetings to all our PEN South Africa members and friends By Margie Orford This has been as busy and tumultuous a year for PEN South Africa as it has been for so many people in South Africa and around...
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PEN SA members Masande Ntshanga and ZP Dala have been longlisted for the 2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature for The Reactive and What About Meera respectively. The Etisalat Prize is awarded annually to a work of first fiction of over...
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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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PEN SA member Pieter Scholtz who has been named the winner of the Green Heart City Movement and South African Writers’ Circle (SAWC)’s Forestry Tale Writing Competition, which was a feature of the 2015 SANKOFA Book and Design Fair in...
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We’ll be rounding up some of the tweets from the talks at the Open Book Festival 2015 featuring PEN SA members. As you can see from the Open Book programme, there is plenty going on. These tweets are just a...
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