Congratulations to PEN SA member Kirsten Miller, whose novel Comfortable Skin has won the 2017 Aziz Hassim Literary Award (Main category), presented by the Minara Chamber of Commerce in Durban on 21 September 2018. The ceremony for the awards, given...
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Congratulations to PEN SA member Ronnie Kasrils and PEN SA Head of Communications Nick Mulgrew for their nominations for the 2018 South African Literary Awards. Celebrating 13th anniversary of their existence, the South African Literary Awards (SALA) have shortlisted twenty three...
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Congratulations to PEN SA member Anton Krueger, whose manuscript The University Currently Known As… has been longlisted for the 2018 Dinaane Debut Fiction Award. Dinaane, the only award of its kind, aims to promote new southern African fiction that speaks...
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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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Congratulations to PEN SA member Achille Mbembe, who has been named the 2018 recipient of the bi-annual Gerda Henkel Prize for Research. He is the first African scholar to win it. “Since 2006,” writes the prize organisers, “the Gerda Henkel...
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