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  Can a Literary Festival Supersede Politics? Tenacious PalFest Tries

  1065 readersIn its sixth year, the Palestine Festival of Literature (PalFest) is expanding beyond Gaza and taking a roadshow across all of historic Palestine.

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  Banipal 45: A Literary Dream for a Forsaken Country

  1386 readersBy Alex Mutter Banipal, the preeminent English-language magazine for Arabic literature, has just released a particularly special 45th issue, one that not only marks Banipal’s 15th year of continuous publication, but also features writers from “all regions of Palestine.” Their timing, as always, is impeccable—particularly as the Gaza/Israel border is heating up. The new issue features work

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  Buenos Aires Negra Festival Celebrates Long Tradition of Crime Fiction

  1996 readers“Could the next Stieg Larsson come from the Pampas?” By Julieta Lionetti Every year in the summer days of July, fans, authors and readers make pilgrimage to the Semana Negra de Gijón, a crime fiction festival held in Asturias, Spain since 1988. What would seem strange to anybody familiar with the long tradition of crime fiction writing and

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  Prague Writers’ Festival coming up

  1949 readersFrom an email I received this morning: We would like to inform you of an upcoming event that may be of interest to you and to readers of TeleRead. Prague Writers´ Festival 2011, scheduled to take place April 16th-20th, will bring together such outstanding writers as Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott, Pulitzer Prizewinner Junot Díaz, Don

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  Is the Best American Book Festival…in Paris?

  622 readersFestival America showcases many of the top writers from both North and South America. By Olivia Snaije The Festival America celebrates its tenth birthday this month — what began as a literary festival to showcase North American literature and culture with just 8,000 visitors has now burgeoned into a biennial event with 30,000 visitors. This year, North

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  Myanmar Makes History with its First Literary Festival

  823 readersA truly historical literary event took place last weekend in Southeast Asia that doesn’t seem to have enjoyed quite as much attention from the Western media as it probably should have, and so we figured we’d briefly mention it here: During the first three days of February, Myanmar—the country still known to much of the world as Burma—held it’s first-ever

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  Reborn Haiti Lit Fest Promises Post-Quake Reading Revival

  922 readersBy Olivia Snaije Two years after the second edition of the literary festival Etonnants Voyageurs Haiti was cancelled in extremis due to the devastating earthquake that struck January 12, 2010, the festival is back once again and will begin February 1st running until the 4th. Michel Le Bris, founder of the Etonnants Voyageurs literary festival in Brittany

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  Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit Tomorrow

  501 readersThe Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit is set to take place tomorrow in San Francisco. Join the industry’s leading mobile gaming developers, investors and executives for panels, discussions and networking. Sessions will revolve around successful game design, development, distribution and monetization. Register before midnight for only $499, a $200 savings. Held at the Mission

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  Poetry Breaks the Bank, Doesn’t Bring the Book Backlash

  1123 readersMuch publicity has surrounded the record prices fetched for poetry manuscripts at an auction held by Bonhams in London as part of The Roy Davids Collection of Poetry, Poetical Manuscripts and Portraits of Poets. The sale made a total of £750,000 ($1,141,550). The draft of Christina Rossetti’s ‘Remember me when I am gone’ fetched £33,650 ($51,217), almost ten

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  Digital Art Workshop this Friday in Perpignan

  3796 readersDo you have any plans for Friday? If you can move them to the south of France, then I know of a workshop you might want to attend. The International Festival of the Book of Art and Film is being held this year in Perpignan, France from June 30th to July 3rd. Part of the festivities