Dear PEN members, Dear friends, Those of you who were in Gyeongju for the Congress are now home, those who were not able to come have had a good description of it from our Executive Director, Laura McVeigh, or from...
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Behind the Shadows is an anthology of twenty one stories from emerging writers in Africa and Asia among them Alex Smith, Arja Salafranca, Elaine Pillay, Jayne Bauling, Jill Morsbach, Isabella Maurice and, Lauri Kubuitsile. The brainchild of Asian and African...
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I was privileged to attend this year’s PEN International Congress held in Gyeongju in South Korea. This was after quite a busy PEN year in which some of the projects around the Secrecy Bill and our literacy partnership with Nalibali...
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Vintage Year is subtitled The 1947 Diaries of Jean St Leger Lawrence. In 1947 Jean Lawrence’s husband, Harry, was Minister of Justice in the Smuts government. The diaries cover the British royal tour (February-April), and the Lawrences’ subsequent visit to...
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Why would a young mother deliberately alienate her twin daughters? Would anybody believe her if she claimed it was to protect them? Growing up in Cape Town as the only child of orthodox Jews who escaped the Holocaust, Jen rebels...
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