PEN South Africa encourages its members to sign a PEN Afrikaans petition against the current iteration of the Copyright Amendment Bill “that is being railroaded through Parliament despite local and international opposition.” Says PEN Afrikaans: As authors’ associations, we are...
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In this book, Kurgan begins with a family snapshot made by her Polish grandfather in 1939 on the eve of the war. Presenting this evocative image as a repository of multiple histories—public, private, domestic, familial and generational—she sets off on...
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PEN South Africa, in collaboration with the Institute of Creative Arts at the University of Cape Town, commemorated the 2018 Day of the Imprisoned Writer with a dynamic and thought-provoking event at UCT’s Hiddingh Hall. One of the most important...
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A hearty congratulations to PEN SA member Raymond Suttner, who will graduate with a LLM law degree at the University of Cape Town, almost half a century after the original submission of his thesis, which was rejected at the time...
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Deadline: 28 February 2019 (Submissions open 1 February 2019) Local poetry press uHlanga is having an open submissions period for original manuscripts of South African poetry in February 2019. Submissions may be made in English, Zulu, Xhosa, or Afrikaans. uHlanga...
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