Congratulations to PEN SA member Ken Barris, whose collection of stories, The Life of Worm and Other Misconceptions, has won the 2018 Media24 Books Herman Charles Bosman Prize for English Fiction, awarded by Media24 to the best book of fiction...
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Congratulations to PEN SA members Jolyn Phillips, Ken Barris, Qarnita Loxton, and Michiel Heyns, whose books have been shortlisted in the 2018 Media24 Books Awards. These annual awards serve to recognise the best work published during the previous year by Media24...
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Congratulations to the very many PEN members whose books made the longlists of the Sunday Times Literary Awards – the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize and the Alan Paton Non-Fiction Award. Books or books translated by PEN SA members on the...
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We are pleased to announce that PEN South Africa will be presenting two events at this year’s Open Book Festival, which is being held from 6 – 10 September. Join us at the following two events: Women’s Manifesto and The...
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I am Pandarus is a retelling, from a modern perspective, of the story of Troilus and Criseyde, as previously told by Chaucer and Shakespeare. The narrator in Michiel Heyns’ lively iteration is the go-between, Pandarus. But the novel opens in...
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