Corina van der Spoel of Boekehuis was host at the launch of African Road – New writing from southern Africa 2006, our volume of new writing for that year. Auckland Park neighbour, SABC, was there to cover the launch. The...
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Henrietta Rose-Innes wins 2008 Caine Prize South African writer Henrietta Rose-Innes has won the 2008 Caine Prize for African writing for her short story “Poison”. Henrietta won the 2007 HSBC/SA PEN Literary Award for “Poison” which was published in African...
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One of International PEN’s main objectives is to encourage literature. Over the years the South African Centre of International PEN has published eight volumes of new writing – with great pleasure and consistent with the global purpose of our parent...
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Moral and creative courage marks these new stories from young writers of the SADC region. They say what they want and confront what they must, unconstrained by past notions of what can or should be voiced. African Pens – New...
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The 2006 award attracted 231 entries from Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe, and selected stories were published in African Road – New writing from southern Africa 2006 in April. We publish ‘Travels to the Magical Kingdom’,...
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