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Karina M. Szczurek

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Reader, writer, editor, publisher. Cape Town.

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Karina M. Szczurek @karinamszczurek.bsky.social · Nov 18

The best email signature I have ever seen:

'Note: Please do not feel pressured to respond to this immediately. Your physical, mental, and emotional health, and of those for whom you are caring, come first.' (Jaydon Farao)

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Karina M. Szczurek @karinamszczurek.bsky.social · 2d

Current mood.

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Karavan Press @karavanpress.bsky.social · 3d

The Sunday Times Literary Awards shortlists have been announced and we are thrilled to share the news that CROOKED SEEDS by Karen Jennings has been shortlisted for the Fiction Prize! Congratulations, Karen and all other nominated authors!
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The 2025 Sunday Times Literary Awards prize

In partnership with Exclusive Books, the awards this year marks the 35th anniversary of the non-fiction award which has, over three decades, showcased the most astute, critical and incisive non-fictio...

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Karavan Press @karavanpress.bsky.social · 6d

An award-winning author: Thobeka Yose ❤️

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Karavan Press @karavanpress.bsky.social · 7d

First Tuesdays at Art Formes Gallery with Klara du Plessis
7 October 2025
18:15 for 18:00
Art Formes Gallery: The Old Biscuit Mill, 375 Albert Rd, Woodstock, Cape Town, 7915

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Karavan Press @karavanpress.bsky.social · 6d

The JDL Award for Poetry: honourable mention given to 'Land | Lines' by Shari Daya
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The JDL Award for Poetry: honourable mention given to Land | Lines by Shari Daya

The inaugural AVBOB competition for collections of poetry, now known as The JDL Award for Poetry in memory of the contribution to the Poetry Project by the late Johann de Lange, took place earlier …

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Karina M. Szczurek @karinamszczurek.bsky.social · 3d

Weekend ...

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Zukiswa Wanner among South Africans detained on Gaza-bound flotilla
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Breaking: Zukiswa Wanner Among South Africans Detained on Gaza-Bound Flotilla

South African author and editor Zukiswa Wanner is among several South Africans detained after the Israeli navy intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla bound for Gaza on October 2. In a statement, the So...

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PEN International @peninternational.bsky.social · 5d

We stand with South African writers in denouncing the detention of writer Zukiswa Wanner and fellow Global Sumud Flotilla participants. We call for their immediate release and safe return home. pensouthafrica.co.za/statement-of...

Statement of Solidarity: Global Sumud Flotilla & Zukiswa Wanner | PEN South Africa

Statement of Solidarity: Global Sumud Flotilla & Zukiswa Wanner

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Daily Maverick @dailymaverick.co.za · 5d

Jane Goodall, who passed away on 1 October 2025, was a pioneering primatologist known for over six decades of groundbreaking research on wild chimpanzees at Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park. She founded the Jane Goodall Institute in 1977 and the Roots & Shoots youth programme in 1991, and ...

Photo Essay: The legacy of Jane Goodall, the world's expert on chimpanzees

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 6d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Karina M. Szczurek @karinamszczurek.bsky.social · 7d

Home is ...

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Karina M. Szczurek @karinamszczurek.bsky.social · 9d

Current mood.

Karina M. Szczurek @karinamszczurek.bsky.social · 9d

The end of an extraordinary evening drive. Not even the guide and the tracker had ever seen the jaw-dropping encounter we witnessed on this tree between this leopard and a male lion. Awe-inspiring.

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Karina M. Szczurek @karinamszczurek.bsky.social · 10d

Morning walk.

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Zebra crossing ;)

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Karina M. Szczurek @karinamszczurek.bsky.social · 11d

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Karina M. Szczurek @karinamszczurek.bsky.social · 12d

And how is your evening?

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Karina M. Szczurek @karinamszczurek.bsky.social · 12d

Another adventure ahead ... 🦁

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Karavan Press @karavanpress.bsky.social · 12d

'Performing Translingual Poetics' by Klara du Plessis – earlier today at UCT.

The first photo was a complete accident, but amazing in the context of Sarah Dowling's book on translingual poetics.

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Karavan Press @karavanpress.bsky.social · 14d

Last night @thebooklounge.bsky.social: Werner Pretorius stepping from behind the bookseller's counter onto the author's stage at the launch of his debut collection of stories, LONE WOLF LIVING. Werner was in conversation with Mervyn Sloman.

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Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com · 14d

As I was saying…

Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

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Karavan Press @karavanpress.bsky.social · 15d

UJ seminar and launch of Ek’t Act by Klara du Plessis

29 September 2025

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UJ seminar and launch of Ek’t Act by Klara du Plessis

You can register for online admission to the seminar here: LanCSAL Let’s Talk Word & World Seminar

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Karavan Press @karavanpress.bsky.social · 15d

Thobeka Yose at the Khayelitsha Book Festival!

Don’t miss a great lineup, including Thobeka Yose, author of the award-winning 'In Silence My Heart Speaks', at this year’s Khayelitsha Book Festival taking place between 26 and 28 September 2025.

Book tickets here: www.quicket.co.za/events/32946...

Book tickets for Khayelitsha Book Festival

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Karavan Press @karavanpress.bsky.social · 16d

MERANG & SANG: ’n Viering van Afrikaans as inklusiewe taal met Danie Marais, Klara du Plessis, Elvis Saal, Franco Prinsloo

Book at Quicket: www.quicket.co.za/events/33114...

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Karavan Press @karavanpress.bsky.social · 16d

UCT SLL Research Seminar Series: Klara du Plessis

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