For the last four years PEN South Africa has partnered with the Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa (PRAESA), the organisation which initiated and drove the first four years of the Nal’ibali national reading-for-enjoyment campaign. Together,...
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Deadline: Monday 20 November 2017 Submissions are open for the 2018 Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for non-fiction and the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize. As in previous years, formal longlists for the prizes will be drawn up: convenors Jennifer Platt...
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Moses Seletisha was named the winner of the 2017 Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award for his Sepedi poem “Mahlalerwa” at the 2017 Nirox WORDS Festival on Saturday 21 October 2017. René Bohnen came second for her Afrikaans poem “Eerste...
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Congratulations to PEN SA member Melissa Volker, who won the Strelitzia Award for Most Promising Novel of 2017, for her novel Shadow Flicker, at the Romance Writers Organisation of South Africa (ROSA)‘s annual conference, which was held earlier this month....
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Congratulations to PEN SA members Sisonke Msimang and Megan Ross, who have both won 2017 Brittle Paper Literary Awards. Msimang received The Brittle Paper Award for Essays/Think Pieces for her piece “All your faves are problematic: A brief history of...
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