The inaugural Sharjah Festival of African Literature honors Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka and Arab-African cultural roots.
UAE: Staging the Inaugural Sharjah Literature Festival
The new Sharjah Literature Festival has opened as ‘a celebration of our shared stories and a platform to nurture Emirati creativity.’
UAE: Sharjah’s Renamed ‘Book Magazine’ Issues a 75th Edition
Ahead of two new festival events, Sharjah renames a long-running magazine created along with Sharjah Book Authority in 2017.
Zagreb’s Sandorf Agency: Sršen on Soyinka, Sloterdijk, and Success
Having attracted Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka to the Pula Book Fair, Zagreb’s Ivan Sršen says he sees promise in Croatia’s young editors.
Croatia’s Pula Book Fair 2018: Focusing on Freedom
Founded as “a place for freedom” in 1995, just a month and a half after the end of the war in Croatia, the Pula Book Fair in Croatia is a magnet for the region’s publishers and readers.
Can You “Bring Back the Book” to a Country That Can’t Afford to Read?
Nigeria’s President launched a campaign to inspire reading that was part-election, part-Facebook festival and part-magical thinking. Editorial by Tolu Ogunlesi LAGOS: Nigeria has no national funding for the arts, no government-run grants-awarding body to support the production of books, and no National Book Policy. In place of a proper publishing industry, the country is awash with book printers, supporting a flourishing …