Congratulations to PEN SA members Jolyn Phillips, Ken Barris, Qarnita Loxton, and Michiel Heyns, whose books have been shortlisted in the 2018 Media24 Books Awards. These annual awards serve to recognise the best work published during the previous year by Media24...
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Deadline: 31 May 2018, midnight CAT Ons Klyntji, a magazine published and launched every year at the Oppikoppi music festival is looking for submissions “written or visual”. There is no set theme, but we do appreciate material that concerns the...
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Congratulations to PEN SA Board Member Sisonke Msimang, whose book Always Another Country: A Memoir of Exile and Home has been shortlisted for the 2018 Alan Paton Award. Al-Jazeera journalist Asad Essa said that the book “must be read” in...
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The Sunday Times Literary Awards shortlists, for the Alan Paton Award and Barry Ronge Fiction Prize, have been announced. This follows the naming of the longlists earlier this year. Jennifer Platt, Sunday Times’ Books editor says: “These 10 books are...
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Southern Africa, 2065. Liyan Madikizela is four months pregnant when her partner Tym, a deep-web researcher, reads out a puzzling entry from an Englishwoman’s 1836 travel journal. While visiting a lush farm with a manor house set below a loaf-shaped...
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