Animalia Paradoxa: the taxonomic category created by Carl Linnaeus for mythical, dubious and imaginary animals. A virus inflames a woman with mortal desire; a colonial naturalist seeks an impossible specimen; invisible violence stalks a safari and a man out walking...
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Congratulations to PEN SA member Henrietta Rose-Innes, whose short story “Snake Story”, originally published by the Johannesburg Review of Books, has been nominated for the African Speculative Fiction Society’s Nommo Award for Short Story. The Nommo Awards recognise works of...
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The 2018 edition of the Franschhoek Literary Festival is hosting – well – a host of PEN SA members. This year’s festival, held from 18-20 May in the eponymous Western Cape town, promises an exciting array of events, including a...
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Last month former Books LIVE Editor Jennifer Malec and Books LIVE founder and PEN SA member Ben Williams launched a new books website called The Reading List. This month we are excited to announce that the two of them have...
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Congratulations to PEN SA member Henrietta Rose-Innes for being longlisted for the 2017 Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize. The thirteen longlisted short stories, according to the Galley Beggar Press, cover various themes, from strange supermarkets, ominus parcels, school plays,...
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