Sharjah International Book Fair, 41st Edition ‘Spread the Word’

The first edition of the Fujairah Children's Book Fair, held from October 13 to 19, 2024, under the theme "Create the Future with Your Imagination," has garnered significant interest from children across the emirate and surrounding areas. The event, hosted at Al Bayt...

The winner of the PEN Pinter Prize, the novelist Arundhati Roy, has named Alaa Abd el-Fattah, the British-Egyptian writer and activist, as PEN’s Writer of Courage 2024.    English PEN describes el-Fattah as one of the most prominent political prisoners in Egypt,...

The Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to 53-year-old South Korean novelist Han Kang for her “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”. Her works include The Vegetarian, The White Book, Human Acts and...