PEN South Africa Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

PEN South Africa

S7E2: Nosipho Mngomezulu asks @JoelMCabrita about her book Written Out: The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala, Twala’s remarkable & unknown life, unpublished writing & the ethics of biography 🎧PEN SA https://t.co/koTrHHIsfe Spotify https://t.co/RPyWpDFYin https://t.co/dzEukBNBMr https://t.co/gV3KDrEZYp

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In ep 4 of The Empty Chair, @KonaBongani & Hedley Twidle discuss The Plague by Albert Camus & what illness does to one's experience of the world. 🎧PEN SA: https://t.co/Iy7q7fRk7m Apple: https://t.co/XWwErC9WaD Spotify: https://t.co/cJtlX0wLXu Anchor: https://t.co/WE3pnOPMBE https://t.co/KR2FKYU4MQ

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S4E5: Revel in the company of Barbara Boswell, Natalie Diaz & vangile gantsho. They contemplate poetry as possibility, tending to language & bodies. Natalie reads Postcolonial Love Poem & vangile reads Red Cotton 🎧PEN SA: https://t.co/BL8Fq7EwWk Anchor: https://t.co/dX29VkL86w https://t.co/AMyUgniEj4

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More good news for PEN SA Vice President @yomotoso: An Unusual Grief-published by @CassavaRepublic-is on the longlist for the @PrizeRofc along with Zoë Wicomb's Still Life- pub. by @PressPeninsula Congratulations to all longlisted authors & publishers! https://t.co/0Ry8BSZKw8

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S4E5: Revel in the company of Barbara Boswell, Natalie Diaz & vangile gantsho. They contemplate poetry as possibility, tending to language & bodies. Natalie reads Postcolonial Love Poem & vangile reads Red Cotton 🎧PEN SA: https://t.co/BL8Fq7EwWk Anchor: https://t.co/dX29VkL86w https://t.co/AMyUgniEj4

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S3E7 is scintillating & expansive: @mntshanga asks Renee Gladman about her Ravicka novels (@DorothyProject), drawing & writing cities & race, her new Plans for Sentences (@WavePoetry) 🎧PEN SA https://t.co/GQC2yS8VL5 Anchor https://t.co/oiqTeEAqFF Apple https://t.co/AJUHCmAUbf https://t.co/gTJCCZS2pg

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If you're in Cape Town tonight, don’t miss Barbara Boswell's (@bobbiboswell) @GIPCA_ICA lecture: "On Love & Insubordination: The Ethics of Love in Pregs Govender’s Love and Courage: A Story of Insubordination" 7 June @ 5:30pm Hiddingh Hall, UCT Hiddingh Campus RSVP ica@uct.ac.za https://t.co/xof8J8XG82

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Julie Otsuka's The Swimmers is one of @lithub's Favourite Books of 2022 Earlier this year, Bongani Kona interviewed Julie about her novels, painting, failure, book bans, & 1st person plural for our Empty Chair Podcast 🎧PEN SA: https://t.co/YCcWKYSe4h or https://t.co/4S9VIAPd8F https://t.co/zszwrVeiHg

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S7E6: Sisonke Msimang asks Mam Barbara Masekela about her memoir Poli Poli, her grandmother’s generation of Black women, transatlantic cultural ties & slowly working on her next book 🎧PEN SA https://t.co/GCHqTzZwEE Spotify https://t.co/mpF7MClGTp https://t.co/9wrguQusty https://t.co/AMpCXR9sr2

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S4E4: Hlonipha Mokoena @WitsWiSER asks Richard Conyngham & Rebecca Hall (@WakeRevolt) about resistance & revolts in their graphic novels All Rise (@JacanaMedia) & Wake (@simonschuster) 🎧PEN SA https://t.co/DVBkmBeODQ Anchor https://t.co/S1mMkCHtrp Apple https://t.co/vxVwg4VcTv https://t.co/oQhywTWZfE

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