The 2025 Black Sea Literary Festival 2025 is Underway in Bulgaria
The event shouts out the region’s growing cultural synergy amid geopolitical tensions.
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Category: Book Fairs
Romania’s Bookfest 2025: A Celebration of Literature (and a personal note)
“Years later I slipped it into the Kindle store one day and, despite it being written in the first person as a twelve year old Romanian girl in WWII, it sold a quarter million copies.”
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Print-on-Demand and Unified Platforms: Seeking Solutions to Arab Publishers’ Distribution Challenges
Shabaro confirmed that print-on-demand has become a viable solution for Arab publishers struggling to reach dispersed readers across the region.
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Greece Confirmed as Guest of Honour at the 2025 Sharjah International Book Fair
Book fair press releases are all too often so flowery you expect them to attract bees as you read, and this one was no exception.
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Czech Republic’s Book World Prague 2025: A Gateway to Central European Publishing
Prague Book World offers an invaluable entry point into the dynamic Czech book market and the broader region. T
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The Evolution of Writing and Publishing: Insights from the Doha International Book Fair
Writing liberated human thought, enabling the preservation of philosophy, literature, and law across generations.
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Poland – Warsaw International Book Fair Opens with South Korean Spotlight
“This year’s theme, ‘A world connected by words,’ reflects how literature breaks down borders and language barriers,”
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Lebanon – Beirut Arab Book Fair Returns with Renewed Energy but no Participation from the Lebanese Publishers Syndicate
For the first time, the Arab World Institute (AWI) in Paris joins the fair with a dedicated stand, showcasing publications on Arab world topics in Arabic and French.
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Caribbean Nations Have Been Centre Stage at Abu Dhabi Book Fair
A lively and engaging programme of activities was curated to showcase the Caribbean region’s culture, knowledge, and civilisation, emphasising its close and developing ties with the UAE.
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Qatar’s Doha International Book Fair: To Be Largest Ever. Premiering Professional Literary Exchange Programme
For the first time, the fair will launch a Professional Literary Exchange Programme, designed to foster international publishing rights deals and translation collaborations.
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China – 31st Beijing International Book Fair Opts for an Academic Focus
The fair coincides with notable growth in Chinese publishing. OpenBook reports double-digit growth in trade, academic, and digital publishing,
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Kuwait’s 47th Islamic Book Fair: Fostering “Civilisational Awareness” in a Global Context
As so often with fairs of this nature, the stress was on books and reading in the pursuit “knowledge” rather than the art of storytelling and literature for entertainment.
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