Deadline: 31 July 2016 The Open Book Festival and Leopard’s Leap are running a haiku competition inspired by the theme ‘words and wine’. See below for the prize details: 1. Cash prize of R5 000 2. 12 cases of Leopard’s...
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PEN South Africa held two PEN Dialogues at the 2015 Open Book Festival. Read board member Adré Marshall’s write-up of the first Dialogue: Lives of Writers here. Centre Co-ordinator Lindsay Callaghan attended the second event, Russia Under Putin, on Saturday...
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PEN South Africa held two PEN Dialogues at the 2015 Open Book Festival. Board member Adré Marshall attended the first event, Lives of Writers, on Friday 11 September and has written about it below. Read about the second Dialogue, Russia...
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Congolese author Alain Mabanckou, who splits his time between France, Congo and the US, spoke at the 2015 Open Book Festival last week. We caught up with him for a quick interview after his talk on his Man Booker-longlisted book...
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We’ll be rounding up some of the tweets from the talks at the Open Book Festival 2015 featuring PEN SA members. As you can see from the Open Book programme, there is plenty going on. These tweets are just a...
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