Dear Friends, It has been a profound pleasure and a privilege to reflect on Margie Orford’s tenure as President of PEN South Africa. As I sifted through the various reports and documents that detailed her years of commitment, I was...
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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. Suppression in South African society is on the rise Luke Waltham, Law Student and Social Justice...
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Single mom Delilah’s life goes up in smoke when her Grade 6 daughter – the star pupil Daisy – isn’t made head girl. Rosie Roberts, Daisy’s nemesis, is crowned instead. But when Rosie is pushed off the second-storey balcony at...
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Congratulations to PEN SA member Lauren Jacobs-Beukman who was awarded the 2017 Desmond Tutu-Gerrit Brand Prize in a ceremony held at Kronenberg Estate outside Paarl on 5 May. The award is given to the best Christian debut novel. Jacobs-Beukman’s novel...
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Connected by more than their exquisite prose, Nick Mulgrew’s new stories delve into a world of killer eagles, tattoo removal parlours, hardcore punk guitarists-cum-auditors, turtle sanctuaries, plane crashes, amateur pornographers and biltong-makers – a world concurrently too strange and too...
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