A talk given at Wordfest during the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, July 2014 by Professor Geoffrey Haresnape, Vice President of SA PEN Before I move on to the issue of the freedom of poets worldwide, and particularly in China...
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Dear PEN Members, Dear Friends, Apologies for the break in my letters. I have been on the road since early May visiting PEN Centres in South America, Europe and Asia. First, as many of you know, Carles Torner has stepped...
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South African Nobel literature laureate never separated life from politics, and her work was richer for it by Margie Orford Nadine Gordimer was a passionately cerebral writer, and her death confirms the passing of a generation of South African writers...
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When Richard Nevis quit the rat race for a simpler life, being pursued across the Karoo by a book-loving assassin while trying to protect both a tokoloshe and the coveted contents of an ancient metal box was not what he...
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Past Imperfect is an autobiography. Alternating between London and South Africa, the author pursued a career in journalism and subsequently publishing. In her Foreword, Helen Robinson likens him to a “traveller” and says: “The baggage of a traveller has many...
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