Congratulations to PEN SA member ZP Dala, whose novel The Architecture of Loss has been shortlisted for the 2018 Clara Johnson Award for Women’s Literature, administered by the Jane’s Stories Press Foundation. The winner of the Award will be awarded $1000 and...
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Congratulations to PEN SA member Masande Ntshanga, whose debut novel The Reactive has been shortlisted for the Society of Authors’ 2018 Betty Trask Prize, one of their four Authors’ Awards. The Betty Trask Prize and Awards are presented for a...
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Congratulations to PEN SA member Shubnum Khan, who has won the 2018 Octavia Butler Fellowship as part of a Jack Jones Literary Arts retreat in New Mexico, U.S.A. As Shubnum explains: It’s a retreat exclusively for women of colour. You...
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Congratulations to PEN SA member Amy Heydenrych and Head of Communications Nick Mulgrew, who were both named Mail & Guardian Young South Africans of 2018 in the Arts & Entertainment category. Each year the Mail & Guardian profiles interesting young...
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Congratulations to PEN SA member Ken Barris, whose collection of stories, The Life of Worm and Other Misconceptions, has won the 2018 Media24 Books Herman Charles Bosman Prize for English Fiction, awarded by Media24 to the best book of fiction...
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