Congratulations to PEN SA Board Member Karina Szczurek, who has won the 2017 Thomas Pringle Award, for a portfolio of her literary reviews from 2016 to 2017. Her reviews, usually published first by the Cape Times, are also hosted on...
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Intruders, Synonyms: trespassers, interlopers, invaders, prowlers, infiltrators, encroachers, violators Orphan sisters chase monsters of urban legend in Bloemfontein. At a busy taxi rank, a woman kills a man with her shoe. A genomicist is accused of playing God when she creates...
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I first dreamed the dream that begins and ends this sequence of poems a long time ago, when I was still in South Africa and had no intention of leaving. The dream is recorded in a note- book that I...
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The programme for the 2018 Hilton Arts Festival, held in the eponymous KwaZulu-Natal town this year from 14–16 September. With a mixture of theatre, comedy and music, held on the grounds of Hilton College, the festival celebrates its 25th year...
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An exciting new novel from South African author, Nape Motana. Babatunde’s Heroic Journey is the story of Babatunde Okoronkwo, a Nigerian recipient of a Russian scholarship who does not return to his country once his schooling is complete. As the Soviet flag...
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