Dubai: The Emirates Airline Festival of Literature (February 1-6), one of the world’s top ten literary festivals, begins today at InterContinental Dubai Festival City and Mohammed bin Rashid Library. The crystal edition is expected to be exceptional, with the largest line-up ever, featuring 260+ authors and talents from around the world in 300+ sessions and […]
Dubai: The Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, which will take place from February 1-6, 2023 at the Intercontinental Dubai Festival City and Mohammed bin Rashid Library, has announced that it will feature its greatest number ever of top Emirati writers, speakers, and creators, as well as emerging talents, in a series of sessions, panels, and […]
French author Dominique Lapierre, some of whose most celebrated works focused on India, died at the age of 91. His wife Dominique Conchon-Lapierre said that the author died of old age. She added that he was “at peace and serene since Dominique is no longer suffering”. In 1975, Lapierre co-authored Freedom at Midnight with American […]
Dubai: The Emirates Literature Foundation announced, that they will celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature from February 1-6, 2023. The Festival will return to their original neighbourhood, near Dubai Creek. Sessions will take place at the Intercontinental Hotel, Dubai Festival City and the recently inaugurated Mohammed Bin Rashid Library with […]
This day in history we feature Nadine Gordimer. She was a South African writer and political activist, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature on this day in 1991. Trivia – Nadine Gordimer Gordimer’s writing dealt with moral and racial issues, particularly apartheid in South Africa. Under that regime, works such as Burger’s Daughter and […]
SHARJAH: The 13th edition of the Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival (SCRF), organised by the Sharjah Book Authority (SBA) under the theme ‘Create Creativity’, will launch on May 11 through May 22, 2022. The series of inspirational talks will be held at the Kids’ Creative Café in Hall six at Expo Centre Sharjah, where SCRF is […]
ABU DHABI: The ‘Library on Wheels’ initiative, operated by the Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge (ADEK), will continue its tour of the emirate on a year-long basis. This comes after a series of successful pop-ups at schools and key locations in Abu Dhabi city during March, as part of the ‘Abu Dhabi Reads’ […]
SHARJAH: Sharjah is all set to take centre stage as Guest of Honour at the 59th edition of Bologna Children’s Book Fair (BCBF), which continues until March 24 in the Italian city, Bologna. The emirate’s distinguished status at the book fair reflects Sharjah’s eminent standing amongst the knowledge cities of the world and is a […]
DUBAI: The Emirates Airline Festival of Literature welcomed child authors of the winning stories in the Voices of Future Generations for the Middle East Region competition for the launch of their book; an anthology called Young Voices of Arabia 2021. This anthology contains 22 original stories with 11 originally written in Arabic and 11 in […]
The Nobel Prize for literature has been awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in between cultures and continents.” Gurnah was born in Tanzania in 1948 but moved to England at a young age. He has written 10 novels, […]
SHARJAH: The Sharjah Department of Culture (SDC) announced that it has issued more than 60 titles in creativity and knowledge during the first 8 months of 2021. Abdullah Al Owais, Chairman of the SDC, stressed that these publications contribute to enriching national and Arab libraries with arts and knowledge, in addition to benefiting scholars and […]
