To mark International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOT), PEN International has launched PEN OutWrite, an online platform featuring writings and short films from LGBTQI (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex) communities and writers around the world: PEN...
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Three PEN South Africa members have been shortlisted for the 2015 Sunday Times Literary Awards, which were announced at a ceremony held during the Franschhoek Literary Festival. The Reactive by Masande Ntshanga (winner of the inaugural PEN International New Voices...
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Pictured above: Petina Gappah, Anthony and Dolores Fleischer and Karabo Kgoleng at the 2009 PEN/Studzinksi Literary Award ceremony, Franschhoek. Longtime PEN SA committee members Dolores Fleischer and Tim Anderson recently announced their decisions to step down from the board, after...
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Finuala Dowling is an award-winning poet and author who works as a senior lecturer at the Centre for Extra-Mural Studies at the University of Cape Town. Her debut poetry collection, I flying (2002), won the Ingrid Jonker Prize; her second...
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London, 12 May 2015 The murder today of Bangladeshi writer, editor and blogger Ananta Bijoy Das is deeply shocking, PEN International said today. Das is the third secular blogger to be murdered for his writings by religious extremists in Bangladesh...
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