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Borghino José
In June I attended the African Publishers Network Conference in Casablanca, Morocco. As ever it was a great pleasure to visit Morocco and to see...
Foundation welcomes three important organisations of the global publishing scene: EDItEUR, the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM Association) and the Book...
Banned Books Week UK returns from 5–11 October 2025 to celebrate the books that have been challenged, removed or silenced, and to stand with the...
On July 23, 2025, the Syndicat national de l'édition (SNE) and nine of its members obtained the site-blocking of Japscan which had had allowed hundreds...
The 10 day long Assemblies concluded on 17 July with WIPO welcoming its 194th Member State, the Federated States of Micronesia, and reporting on progress...
In 2024, Dar Al Adab published Hoda Barakat’s novel Hind, which later went on to win the 2025 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the Literature...
González Martín Luis
Reading comes in all sorts of shapes, sizes, and contexts. So when we talk about the ‘benefits of reading’ what do we mean exactly? Having...
Attacks in mid-June destroyed the Ukrainian Priority Publishing House and attacks on the night of 3rd July reduced the warehouse of Ukrainian PEN to rubble....
IPA and a number of members attended WEXFO in Norway on 2 and 3 June. Panel, workshops and the Prix Voltaire ceremony in a setting...
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award, one of the world’s leading prizes dedicated to Arabic literature and culture, is now accepting submissions across its ten categories...
Reacting to the news that Boualem Sansal’s 5 year prison sentence will stand, Kristenn Einarsson, Chair of the IPA’s Freedom to Publish Committee said:...
سيقدم الاتحاد الدولي للناشرين برنامجاً شاملاً من الاجتماعات المفتوحة والمغلقة في معرض فرانكفورت الدولي للكتاب هذا العام. يُرجى ملاحظة أن هذا الجدول الزمني مؤقت، وجميع...

Book Fairs and Events

The WEXFO annual conference takes place in Lillehammer, Norway – 1-3 June....
Since 2022, the Paris Book Market has been bringing together international acquisition editors and rights managers from French-language publishing houses....
Launched in 1954, the Seoul International Book Fair has been Korea’s biggest book festival for nearly 70 years....
The IPA organises the International Publishers Congress every two years in cooperation with the IPA member in the host country. The Congress offers an unrivalled...
The Ghana International Book Fair is an annual event organised to celebrate the rich Ghanaian culture through books. The main goal behind organising the Book...
The Nairobi International Book Fair (NIBF) is the regional market place for books and it brings together publishing professionals, authors, booksellers, print suppliers, media and...
For the 78th time, Frankfurter Buchmesse will open its doors in October to celebrate exciting stories and their authors....
The Algiers International Book Fair represents an annual meeting space for national and international authors, publishers and creators....
The Senegalese International Book Fair serves as a key platform for bringing together authors, publishers, and readers....