Shortlist announced for 12th Etisalat Award for Arabic Children’s Literature
With 221 submissions from 22 countries, the judging panel for 12th edition of the Etisalat Award...
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Category: Awards
Shortlist announced for the 2020 African Writers Awards and the Wakini Kuria Award for Children’s Literature
The African Writers Development Trust is an NGO that provides publishing grants, educational...
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“Let there be more films based on books by contemporary Ukrainian authors”
“It’s great that we have so much literature spanning different genres. Let there be more...
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Ten years after self-publishing took off in the UK, The Bookseller still excludes indie authors from its awards
The Bookseller 2012: “For years the publishing industry has ignored self-publishing. The...
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Authors from Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Syria make the shortlist for the 2020 ArabLit Story Prize
The Arabic Literature in English site ArabLit has revealed its short list of five blind-selected...
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Singapore Book Awards 2020 held online. Dedicated awards for Best Ebook, Best Audiobook and Best Digital Marketing. Cookery book takes the main prize
A cookery book takes the big prize at this year’s Singapore Book Awards, held online this year...
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The StreetLib-TNPS global-perspectives newsletter Publish MENA #9 is now available
The free StreetLib-TNPS B2B global-perspectives newsletter for Middle East North Africa authors...
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Middle East Monitor Palestine Book Awards 2020 shortlist announced
The Middle East Monitor (MEMO) has announced its shortlist of authors in line for the 9th...
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Debut children’s author from Qatar makes shortlist for international indie book award
Published by Qatar’s Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) and written by debut author...
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South Sudanese novel wins PEN Translates Award. Almost two thirds of awarded books by women writers, over half translated by women
When we think MENA literature we often don’t get past a handful of key North African and Middle...
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2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award is open for submissions
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award, often called the Arab Nobel Prize, is actually nine awards, each...
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The latest edition of Publish Africa, the StreetLib-TNPS newsletter for Africa’s publishers, is now live
On hold during the early stages of the pandemic, the StreetLib-TNPS newsletter Publish Africa is...
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