Braving stormy weather and flash floods, Capetonians filled a tiny bookshop, Kalk Bay Books, last night to hear rousing performances of protest songs, satire, lyric poetry and fearless free speech. The event, organised by PEN South Africa, marked the International...
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Dear PEN members, Dear friends, I am writing this on November 15 th , the Day of the Imprisoned Writer. A year ago some twenty of us from around the world were in Istanbul and Ankara with PEN Turkey, meeting...
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Kalk Bay Books and PEN South Africa invite you to an evening of rousing music, poetry and free speech to commemorate the International Day of the Imprisoned Writer. Join master of ceremonies Ann Donald as she hosts an event that...
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In China it’s the Year of the Snake In South Africa it’s the Year of the Gate We’ve had Guptagate C.A.R.gate Nkandlagate And thank goodness Zapiro’s ever watchful eye and pen records each creaking gate. Zapiro (aka Jonathan Shapiro) is...
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In Dance with Suitcase Dawn Garisch, medical doctor and award-winning author and poet, courageously exposes the narratives that have shaped her as she moves through her life — escape and barricade, stillness and whirlwind, grief and exuberance, proposing that the...
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