PEN Internasionaal bring die wêreld se skrywers byeen. Die Vertaal- en Taalregtekomitee van PEN Internasionaal het vyftien jaar gelede vir die eerste keer die Universele Verklaring van Taalregte in Barcelona bekend gemaak. Vandag verklaar dieselfde komitee op ’n byeenkoms in...
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by Raymond Louw, Vice-President PEN South Africa who represented PEN SA at the conference Some weeks before reformists in Egypt toppled Hosni Mubarak from the Presidency, the country’s Supreme Council for Culture invited 12 representatives of African PEN Centres plus...
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RAPID ACTION NETWORK 14 April 2011 RAN 11/11 update #1 PEN International’s Writers in Prison Committee welcomes the 6 April 2011 release on bail of reporter Armando José Chicoca, who was sentenced to one year in prison and a heavy...
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Chair’s Notebook #6 Between 24 and 27 March 2011, the WiPC was in Brussels for our ninth conference; we were some 75 strong, from almost forty centres. It was spring in Brussels; we were comfortably settled into three hotels in...
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by Margie Orford – Female of the Species. Cape Times, April 12 2011 The Turbine Hall in the Tate Modern in London echoes with the feet of the countless tourists who shuffle through, numbed by choice, bad coffee and the...
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