PEN SA Africa Pulse is a weekly round-up of news concerning cases of freedom of expression and the freedom of the press in Africa. PEN SA Statement on the Black Land First Protest Against Peter Bruce PEN South Africa condemns...
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This statement was sent to the ANC SG. PEN SA condemns the Black Land First protest against the Tiso Blackstar editor at large, Peter Bruce. PEN SA condemns the thuggish placard protest and threats by the so-called Black Land First...
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Congratulations to PEN SA Member Lauren Beukes whose novel Zoo City has been awarded the Helsinki Science Fiction Society Tähtivaeltaja Award for best science fiction book published in Finland in 2016. Zoo City was translated into Finnish by Tytti Viinikainen....
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Deadline: 1 July 2017 Entry fees: 1 poem £6, 2 poems £12, 3 poems £15, 5 poems £20, 10 poems £35 Prize: £1000 You can enter as many poems as you like to the Live Canon International Poetry Competition, and...
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(Pictured: Bongani Siqoko, Zakes Mda, & Christiane von Arnim) Congratulations to PEN SA Member Zakes Mda who has been named the winner of the Barry Ronge Prize for fiction at the Sunday Times Literary Awards for his novel Little Suns....
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