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Lights! Cameron! Action!

Spud Milton writes Judge Edwin Cameron an open letter, to read the letter please click on the below link Lights! Cameron! Action!

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Penguin Books South Africa Welcomes Etienne van Heerden Back to the Penguin List!

    Penguin Books South Africa is delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of two of Etienne van Heerden’s recent and most significant works: In Love’s Place and Thirty Nights in Amsterdam, as well as the reissue in paperback, in brand new livery, of two of his earlier novels – Ancestral Voices and Leap Year, both of [...]

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Penguin Books scoop prestigious CNA Awards!

At the CNA  Awards evening held on the 28th July Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama was announced the winner of the C N A Book of the Year Award, as voted for by their readers.  Stephenie Meyer’s Breaking Dawn was awarded the second runner up prize, Alison Lowry, Tracey McDonald and Helen Suzor accepted the [...]

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Damon Galgut has won the 2008 University of Johannesburg Prize for Creative Writing

                 Damon Galgut has won the 2008 University of Johannesburg Prize for Creative Writing for The Impostor   In 2006, the University of Johannesburg instituted two prizes for Creative Writing in English: The UJ Prize for the best creative work in English The UJ Prize for the best creative debut work in English. The value of the 2008 prize for best [...]

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