On 15 November 2017, PEN South Africa partnered with the University of Cape Town’s Institute for Creative Arts (ICA) to commemorate one of the most important dates on the PEN calendar: the International Day of the Imprisoned Writer. The 2017...
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‘Women’s Manifesto’ was one of the two events presented by PEN South Africa at the 2017 Open Book Festival, the other was ‘The Sellout’ with Paul Beatty and Harry Garuba. By Rachel Zadok On Wednesday, 6 September 2017, PEN South...
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PEN South Africa and the Institute for Creative Arts, University of Cape Town invite you to join us in commemorating PEN’s Day of the Imprisoned Writer on 15 November 2017. It is a day that marks, globally, the persecution, and...
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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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Pictured: Man Booker Prize winner Paul Beatty signs copies of his book The Sellout. Photo credit: Retha Ferguson, courtesy of Open Book Festival. ‘The Sellout’ was one of the two talks at the 2017 Open Book Festival that were presented...
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