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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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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Below you’ll find a list of events featuring PEN South Africa members, as well as a selection of other noteworthy literary events happening around South Africa. If there is an event you’d like us to feature let us know. South...
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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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ZP Dala is now at home and sent PEN the following statement: “I would like to thank PEN Centers in South Africa, America and the UK a million times over for mobilising so quickly and working so hard to secure...
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