12 October 2011 Formed by PEN International with founder members Hachette Livre, Penguin Books and Random House early in 2011, the PEN International Publishers’ Circle announces its expansion today to embrace Scandinavian and Canadian Publishers, and its intention to grow...
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South African PEN is deeply concerned at the shameful manner in which the South African Government has dealt with an application for a visa to attend the private birthday party of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu by the renowned Tibetan spiritual...
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Where the Wind Wills brings together some forty new poems by Geoffrey Haresnape, one of South Africa’s long established poets still producing fresh work. Some have been published in journals, others presented at live poetry readings in Cape Town, and...
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Dear friends, Dear PEN members, Those of you who were in Belgrade have had some time to report to your members. And all of you have received a fast, preliminary report from our Executive Director, Laura McVeigh – a very...
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DAY OF THE DEAD 2011 by Homero Aridjis In ancient Mexico it was believed that people who drowned went to the heaven of Tláloc, the rain god, that soldiers who fell in combat became part of the Eastern sun, that...
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