The 54th edition of Cairo International Book Fair will launch on 25 January and run until 6 February, the Egyptian Ministry of Culture announced in a statement.
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Last night marked the ceremony of the 18th Sawiris Cultural Award.
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Google Doodles celebrated on Wednesday Egypt’s late renowned journalist and novelist Ihsan Abdel-Koddous for the first time on the Arab world's Google search engine.
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Award-winning writer, translator and critic Mohamed El-Enani passed away on Tuesday at the age of 84, leaving behind more than a hundred books in Arabic and English, translations and creative works.
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Famous Egyptian author and translator Bahaa Taher passed away on Thursday after a long struggle with illness.
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French author Annie Ernaux awarded Nobel prize in literature 2022 “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”.
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A biography of the late George Floyd and poetry by Pulitzer Prize winner Sharon Olds were among the works included Thursday on long lists for the National Book Awards.
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The wave of attempted book banning and restrictions continues to intensify, the American Library Association reported Friday. Numbers for 2022 already approach last year's totals, which were the highest in decades.
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New never-before-seen handwritten memoirs by the only Arab Nobel laureate writer, Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006), will be published in a new book, according to a statement by the late novelist’s daughter.
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The stunning knife attack on author Salman Rushdie has fanned interest in his works -- above all, "The Satanic Verses," which left him living for years under a looming death threat.
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British children's author and illustrator Raymond Briggs, whose creations include "The Snowman'' and "Fungus the Bogeyman,'' has died. He was 88.
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British author Salman Rushdie, whose writings made him the target of Iranian death threats that forced him into hiding, was attacked on stage Friday in western New York state.
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Stephen King didn't break any legal ground on the stand Tuesday as he testified against his own publisher's efforts to merge with Penguin Random House. But he did know how to please a crowd and even get the judge to thank him for his time.
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At a time of mega-mergers and flashy high-tech corporate hookups, the biggest U.S. book publisher's plan to buy the fourth-largest for a mere $2.2 billion may seem somewhat quaint.
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The Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA) announced that it has opened submissions for its 17th edition starting this June and that they will remain open till 1 October.
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A memoir by Chelsea Manning will come out this fall. The book is titled "README.txt,'' and it's scheduled for release on Oct. 18.
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Abdulrazak Gurnah, the British-Tanzanian Nobel-winning writer, has spent a lifetime confronting colonialism and racial politics -- and welcomes a new generation keeping these issues alive.
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This year's winner of the International Booker Prize, Geetanjali Shree's novel ``Tomb of Sand,'' will be released in the U.S. this winter by an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
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A specially commissioned, unburnable edition of Margaret Atwood's ``The Handmaid's Tale`` has been auctioned for $130,000, Sotheby's announced Tuesday.
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Indian writer Geetanjali Shree and American translator Daisy Rockwell won the International Booker Prize on Thursday for ``Tomb of Sand,'' a vibrant novel with a boundary-crossing 80-year-old heroine.
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