Award-winning author and PEN South Africa professional member, Fiona Khan has released a collection of poems titled Windows of a Woman’s Mind. She describes the collection as the culmination of her work over the past 27 years, telling of her...
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Congratulations to PEN SA members Francine Simon, Christine Coates, Jim Pascual Agustin, Athol Williams, and Mark de Wet, whose poems have been longlisted for the 2018 Sol Plaatje EU Poetry Award, and will be published in this year’s anthology. A...
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The trial of the Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour is currently under way. At present, according to the blog, Arabic Literature, Tatour is under house arrest, confined to a Tel Aviv apartment without access to the internet. In 2016, on the...
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Congratulations to PEN SA member Jim Pascual Agustin, whose poem “To be an Orc” was chosen by literary website NoiseMedium as its Grand Prize Winner. Read “To be an Orc” on NoiseMedium: To be an Orc By Jim Pascual Agustin...
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A Worldwide Reading in support of Ashraf has been organised by the international literature festival Berlin (ilb) for today, the 14th January 2016. Ashraf is a Palestinian poet that has been sentenced to death for apostasy in Saudi Arabia. PEN...
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