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2nd December 2008

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Penguin launches SA prize

10.10.08

Penguin will launch an African writing prize and a Penguin African Writers series in 2009.

The initiatives will mark the 20th anniversary of Penguin publishing in the South African market. The prize will be for unpublished work and will have two categories, fiction and non-fiction, with SA R50,000 (£3,143) and a publishing contract with Penguin South Africa on offer to each winner.

Meanwhile, the Penguin African Writers series will be developed in conjunction with Heinemann. The celebrated novelist Chinua Achebe, author of Things Fall Apart, will act as senior editorial advisor to the series.

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