The Sunday Times Literary Awards shortlists, for the Alan Paton Award and Barry Ronge Fiction Prize, have been announced. This follows the naming of the longlists earlier this year. Jennifer Platt, Sunday Times’ Books editor says: “These 10 books are...
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Five PEN SA members have been named as winners of the 2015 South African Literary Awards. Zukiswa Wanner won the K Sello Duiker Memorial Literary Award for her novel London – Cape Town – Joburg, Charl-Pierre Naudé was a joint...
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Below you’ll find a list of events featuring PEN South Africa members, as well as a selection of other noteworthy literary events happening around South Africa. If there is an event you’d like us to feature let us know. South...
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Five PEN SA members have been shortlisted for the 2015 Media24 Books Literary Awards, which were announced on May 19th. Michiel Heyns and Zakes Mda were shortlisted for the Herman Charles Bosman Prize for English Fiction for A Sportful Malice...
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Edwin Cameron’s gripping and revealing new book is part memoir and part ode to the law. The book opens at the funeral of Cameron’s sister Laura when he was just seven. His father was accompanied by prison officials, having been...
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