PEN South Africa
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PEN South Africa represents the writers of southern and South Africa. We celebrate literature, defend freedom of expression, and aid writers in prison.
PEN South Africa
2w ago
Dear Members of the PEN South Africa community, We hope this letter finds you all well. We have had several enquiries about how PEN South Africa has responded to Israel’s current siege of Gaza and we are writing to share...
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PEN South Africa
2w ago
Dear Members of the PEN South Africa community, We hope this letter finds you all well. We have had several enquiries about how PEN South Africa has responded to Israel’s current siege of Gaza and we are writing to share...
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PEN South Africa
7M ago
Grace A. Musila asks Hugo ka Canham about his book Riotous Deathscapes. They explore riotous methods, rural Mpondoland, precarity, storytelling, death and life as well as the natural and ancestral worlds ..read more
PEN South Africa
7M ago
Bongani Kona interviews Gabeba Baderoon and Roger Reeves about their books The History of Intimacy and Dark Days: Fugitive Essays ..read more
PEN South Africa
7M ago
Kudakwashe Vanyoro interviews John Marnell and Alejandra Oliva about their books Seeking Sanctuary and Rivermouth. They deliberate about telling other people’s stories, the experiences of LGBTIQ migrants, immigration policies, translation, faith-based organisations and solidarity ..read more
PEN South Africa
8M ago
Yewande Omotoso asks Camille Dungy about her latest book, Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden. They delve into nature writing, gardening, radical generosity, writing revisions, the ethics of fellowship grants, hope and resilience ..read more
PEN South Africa
8M ago
Vuyokazi Ngemntu invites LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs and Sihle Ntuli to reflect on their poetic practice, language and dispossession, literacies, influences, rootedness, Black women’s histories and music ..read more
PEN South Africa
8M ago
Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed talk with Betty Govinden about their book Durban’s Casbah. They reflect on personal and collective pasts, bunny chows and bioscopes, critical nostalgia, indentured labour, migration, jazz and the Casbah today ..read more
PEN South Africa
8M ago
Phillippa Yaa de Villiers interviews Sarah Lubala and Mahtem Shiferraw about their poetry collections, A History of Disappearance and Nomenclatures of Invisibility ..read more
PEN South Africa
8M ago
Mia Arderne asks Jade Song about their debut novel Chlorine. They discuss beliefs about mermaids, girlhood, magical realism, mental illness, writing about violence and sexual assault, reclaiming one’s body, queer narratives and advice for writers ..read more