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13 Dec 2011 11:44 |
| The Publishing Association of New Zealand (PANZ) and the Ministry for Culture and Heritage announced funding of $1 million for New Zealand writers and their publishers to ensure they are able to make the most of New Zealand's Guest of Honour role at the 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair. |
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13 Dec 2011 11:13 |
| The 7th International Karachi Book Fair 2011 will be held from December 16 to 20. |
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10 Dec 2011 15:50 |
| Sale's expert of Boustan Ketab Institute said that the center will present 110 of its Arabic books at the 22nd Doha International Book Fair and added:" During the fair one of the Iranian publisher's books will be unveiled by the Qatari Emir's wife as special gifts will be donated to its creators." |
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3 Dec 2011 13:14 |
| Today (Dec. 3) is the death anniversary of a Scottish writer who reached global fame by authoring 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'. Mohsen Soleymani, translator, believes that Stevenson's fame was for two reasons: first, using an international language for writing, and second for his belief in vanguardism. |
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3 Dec 2011 11:46 |
| Thousands of book stalls with over 200 titles on Indian cinema under one roof. The biennial World Book Fair gets bigger than ever with 2000 publishers from across the globe expected to participate in this edition. Kickstarting on February 25, the 9-day fair will centre on the theme '100 years of Indian cinema'. |
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30 Nov 2011 15:35 |
| Spanish writer Fernando Aramburu on Tuesday was awarded the 7th Tusquets Editores Novel Prize for "Años Lentos" (Slow Years), in which he recreates the founding of the Basque terrorist group ETA based on experiences of his early childhood. |
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30 Nov 2011 15:11 |
| Hujatoleslam Saleh Husseini Jebeli has recently written a book on the Islamic movements in Indonesia to account on Muslims' thinking in the country. |
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29 Nov 2011 16:44 |
| Three challenges face the land and water resources upon which agriculture relies - to increase food production by almost 70 percent by 2050; to reduce hunger and improve livelihoods for the poorest; and to minimize or mitigate degradation of land and water and of the broader ecosystems, according to a new book published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. |
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29 Nov 2011 13:34 |
| Celebrated journalist Ronald Reng was announced the winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2011, for A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke. |
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29 Nov 2011 12:23 |
| The spirits which terrorise and ultimately reform Scrooge in A Christmas Carol may have been due to a nightmare brought on, as the miser put it, by "an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese". |
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28 Nov 2011 13:11 |
| According to buffalonews, the Rev. Volodymyr Zablotskyy had given up on getting back a stolen Holy Gospel book -- treasured by the members of SS. Peter and Paul Orthodox Church -- until a stranger handed it to a stunned parishioner over the weekend as he walked the Lovejoy neighborhood. |
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22 Nov 2011 12:42 |
| Michael Moore was in Flint Monday to promote his new book "Here Comes Trouble." Moore will be signing books at the Whiting Tuesday starting at 7:00 p.m. |
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21 Nov 2011 12:20 |
| A groundbreaking new study into the lives of Lebanon’s invisible poor was launched last Thursday at the American University of Beirut. |
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20 Nov 2011 9:33 |
| This is the first showcase of exquisite Iranian books in Turkey, which is arranged jointly by the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization and International Festival of Exquisite and Artistic Books at Turkey's national library. |
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19 Nov 2011 11:40 |
| The 4th edition of South Korea's CJ Picture Book Festival has named its winners. Iran was ranked as the second following Italy and Korea. |
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16 Nov 2011 13:32 |
| In a novel entitled: “Irandokht" Behnam Naseh portrays a girl's story that has a narrative parallel with another character in the novel, Roozbeh. Irandokht and Roozbeh, both live in the time of Khosrow Parviz Sassanid rule, and witness the days which are expecting lots of events. The book is the winner of the 5th Gam-e- Aval (first step) Award. |
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15 Nov 2011 15:11 |
| On the occasion of Eid al-Ghadeer the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization in Kyrgyzstan has released the 31st letter of Nahj al-Balagha. The work has been published in Persian, Kyrgyz and Arabic. |
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15 Nov 2011 12:07 |
| A collection of writings on the life of American Nobel winning writer Ernest Hemingway is compiled and converted to Persian by Farzaneh Quchlu. The work makes a survey of the life of this American writer from early childhood to adulthood in the context of American society. |
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14 Nov 2011 16:57 |
| Members of the executive council of the Muslim publishers' union were elected at the closing of the second International Islamic World Publishers Conference yesterday, November 13, 2011. |
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14 Nov 2011 13:31 |
| "Through Black Spruce" a novel by Canadian writer Joseph Boyden has been rendered into Persian by Mohammad Javadi. |