The PEN Africa Network (PAN), the umbrella body of PEN International Centres in Africa, calls on the authorities of Burkino Faso to immediately lift the three-month suspension of live political broadcasts by the country’s media. Burkino Faso goes to the...
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London, 20 May 2015 Earlier this year, India’s Ministry of Home Affairs used an extensive arsenal of vague and overbroad laws to muzzle the world’s largest environmental watchdog, Greenpeace International. Using seemingly innocuous provisions in the Indian Foreign Contribution (Regulation)...
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Geoffrey Haresnape is a poet and fiction writer with five volumes of poetry published to date: Drive of the Tide (1976), New-Born Images (1991), Mulberries in Autumn (1996), The Living and the Dead: Selected and New Poems (2005) and Where...
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PEN SA member Angela Lloyd has won the short-form category prize in the 2015 FLF SA Wine Writers’ Awards. Angela’s “evocative writing and eloquent phrasing” was complimented during the announcement. A panel of independent judges, comprised of two local wine...
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Five PEN SA members have been shortlisted for the 2015 Media24 Books Literary Awards, which were announced on May 19th. Michiel Heyns and Zakes Mda were shortlisted for the Herman Charles Bosman Prize for English Fiction for A Sportful Malice...
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