Dear PEN members, Dear friends, October is Frankfurt Book Fair. PEN International’s relationship with the Fair continues to grow. The opening session of the Weltempfang was given to our Publishers Circle, with Ronald Blunden, Anders Heger, Ola Wallin and myself...
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On censorship… Censorship is a recent and painful memory for South Africans. In an event organized for the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Liu Xiabo, several of the writers invited to read in his honour had been imprisoned for writing things...
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It’s been the year of living dangerously, a year of being acknowledged, and it will be the year of the long awaited court case. The national conscience has been hard at work in this, his latest collection, But Will It...
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