The Open Book Festival is coming up on the 9th – 13th September and they are running three competitions that all include tickets to the festival as well as a whole lot of other fantastic prizes. Open Book Raffle Buy...
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30 July 2015, London The Honduran government must honour and make a reality its promises to protect journalists and combat impunity for crimes against them, PEN International said today. According to PEN’s information, six journalists have been murdered since the...
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PEN South Africa condemns the draconian regulations which the Film and Publication Board plans to introduce to control the content of messages and other expressions of opinion which civil society and other users of the internet write online. It calls...
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Masande Ntshanga won the inaugural PEN International New Voices Award in 2013 for his short story “Space”, which was also recently shortlisted for the Caine Prize 2015. His debut novel, The Reactive (2014), was shortlisted for the 2015 Sunday Times...
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23 July 2015 The release from prison after more than three years of Hani Al-Zitani and Hussein Gharir, human rights defenders and members of the Syrian Centre for Media and Free Expression (SCM), is a small step towards improving Syria’s...
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