Jessica Sänger has been elected chair of the International Publishers Association Freedom to Publish Committee, succeeding Norwegian publisher Kristenn Einarsson.
Writer Boualem Sansal, Held for a Year, Released by Algeria
In a surprise move, Algeria’s president suspends the 2011 German Peace Prize-winning author’s prison sentence.
Kristenn Einarsson Is Stepping Away: Almost
The Freedom to Publish lead at IPA, the founding managing director of WEXFO, the World Expression Forum, will focus on the ‘democracy-reading’ connection full-time now. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘Give the Readers What They Didn’t Know They Wanted’ t will seem odd at first. So central a personality has Kristenn Einarsson been to the International Publishers Association, to …
Norway: Ingunn Trosholmen, WEXFO Managing Director
As founder Kristenn Einarsson prepares to step away, Ingunn Trosholmen is named to lead the World Expression Forum forward.
Interview: Egypt’s Ahmed Bedeir on the Prix Voltaire
Dar El Shorouk’s view: IPA’s award tells courageous publishers that ‘a global community sees them, values them, and stands with them.’
IPA Blasts Russian Attacks on Ukraine’s Publishing Sites
The Russian attacks on publishing interests in Ukraine — this month and in mid-June — prompt sharp condemnation from IPA.
At Norway’s WEXFO, a Vow To Fight ‘Disinformation, Censorship, Polarization’
Urgently essential ‘higher-level reading’ and a new construct built on democracy and literacy, ‘Dem Read,’ came into focus at WEXFO.
IPA’s Prix Voltaire: Dmitri Strotsev and Nadia Kandrusevich
Dmitri Strotsev of the Hochroth Minsk and Nadia Kandrusevich of Koska are the 2025 Prix Voltaire laureates.
Norway’s WEXFO: ‘The Cellular Level of a Democracy’
WEXFO Youth and World Expression Forum delegates join in the conference’s opening day at Lillehammer
Readmagine 2025: On Innovation, Skills, Collaboration
Madrid’s Readmagine opens with the values that publishing finds in new developments: good training and talent.