Congratulations to PEN SA Honorary Member J.M. Coetzee, who has received the inaugural Mahindra Award for the Humanities from the Mahindra Center for the Humanities, Harvard University. The award, which is named after Anand G. Mahindra ’77 and his wife...
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For Ceridwen Dovey, J.M. Coetzee ‘has always been there, an unseen but strongly felt presence in our small family drama’. As a child, she observed with fascination her mother’s immersion in Coetzee’s writing as she worked on what would become...
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Congratulations to Honorary PEN SA member J.M. Coetzee, who has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize: The longlist for the 2016 Man Booker Prize has been announced, including JM Coetzee. There are 13 books on the list, six are...
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Photograph courtesy of Victor Dlamini By Victor Dlamini This piece was originally published on victordlamini.com and he has kindly allowed us to publish it as part of the PEN SA essay series on South African literature. If you are interested in...
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This is part of the PEN SA essay series on South African literature. If you are interested in submitting a piece, contact us on communications@pensouthafrica.co.za. By David Attwell +++I spent the month of September in Ilorin, Nigeria, as a visitor...
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