Category: Morocco
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Festival du Livre Africain de Marrakech 2025 starts January 30.
Festival du Livre Africain de Marrakech 2025 returns to its Moroccan home from January 30 – February 2, 2025. Festival du Livre Africain de Marrakech (English: African Book Festival Marrakech) is a literary festival bringing together writers, thinkers, and intellectuals from the continent, its diasporas, and its descendants. It was founded by writer and visual…
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Marrakech English Book Festival 2025 starts January 17
The second edition of the Marrakech English Book Festival runs in the Moroccan city from January 17 – 19, 2024 The Marrakech English Book Festival is a literary festival with English as its primary language formed as a result of the partnership between the Marrakech English Book Association and the British Council in Morocco. It…
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Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2025 longlists announced
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2025 longlists in four categories were announced in the United Arab Emirates on Friday, December 6, 2024. The Sheikh Zayed Book Award is presented to Arab writers, intellectuals, and publishers as well as young talent whose writings and translations of humanities have scholarly and objectively enriched Arab cultural, literary, and…
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Rabat, Morocco is UNESCO World Book Capital 2026
UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay announced Rabat, Morocco as the designated UNESCO World Book Capital 2026 on October 8, 2024. The World Book Capital is the city that UNESCO designates to be the headquarters of World Book and Copyright Day activities starting April 23. This date is the anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare and…
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Khalid Lyamlahy wins Prix Ethiophile 2024
Khalid Lyamlahy’s novel Évocation d’un Mémorial à Venise won Prix Ethiophile 2024 on Monday, September 30, 2024. Prix Ethiophile is an annual literary prize that rewards French-speaking, African, or Caribbean texts founded in 2015. The prize worth €1,000 alternates between the novel, poetry, theatre, and essay genres. Previous winners have been Valérie Cadignan, Beata Umubyeyi…
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Festival Littératures Itinerants 2024 for Rabat on October 5
Festival Littératures Itinérantes 2024, with the theme “Literature and Memory,” will be hosted in Rabat, Morocco on Saturday, October 5, 2024. Festival Littératures Itinerants (English: Traveling Literature Festival) was first hosted in the Moroccan town of Salé in 2017. Since then, the festival which attracts audiences of between 10,000 and 12,000 has moved around Morocco…
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Eric Chacour wins Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie 2024
Eric Chacour won Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie 2024 in Paris, France on Tuesday, March 26, 2024. Khalid Lyamlahy was given a special mention. Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie (English: Five Continents Prize of the Francophonie) was established by the International Organization of the Francophonie in 2001. It is aimed…
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Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2024 shortlists announced.
The shortlists for the Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2024 were announced on Thursday, March 7, 2024. The Sheikh Zayed Book Award is presented to Arab writers, intellectuals, and publishers as well as young talent whose writings and translations of humanities have scholarly and objectively enriched Arab cultural, literary and social life. The categories handed out…
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International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2024 shortlist announced.
Eissa Nasiri and Ahmed al-Morsi are on the shortlist for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2024 was announced today, Wednesday, February 14, 2024. The International Prize for Arabic Fiction is the most prestigious literary prize in the Arab world. It aims to reward excellence in contemporary Arabic creative writing and to encourage the readership…
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Festival du Livre Africain de Marrakech starts February 8
Festival du Livre Africain de Marrakech 2014 runs for the second year in Marrakech, Morocco from February 8 – 11, 2024. Festival du Livre Africain de Marrakech (English: Marrakesh African Book Festival) also known as FLAM was founded by Mahi Binebine (writer and visual artist), Fatimata Sagna (journalist), Hanane Essaydi (academic) and Younès Ajarraï (cultural…
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Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie 2024 finalists announced.
The finalists for Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie 2024 were announced on Wednesday, December 13, 2023. Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie (English: Five Continents Prize of the Francophonie) was established by the International Organization of the Francophonie in 2001. It is aimed at highlighting literary talents reflecting the expression of cultural…
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International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2024 longlist announced.
The longlist for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2024 was announced on Thursday, December 14, 2023. The International Prize for Arabic Fiction is the most prestigious literary prize in the Arab world. It aims to reward excellence in contemporary Arabic creative writing and to encourage the readership of high-quality Arabic literature internationally through the…
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Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2024 longlists announced.
The longlists for the Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2024 in literature, Children’s Literature, Young Author and Translation were announced on November 17 and 28, 2024. The Sheikh Zayed Book Award is presented to Arab writers, intellectuals, and publishers as well as young talent whose writings and translations of humanities have scholarly and objectively enriched Arab…
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Prix Médicis 2023 first selection announced
Ananda Devi, Lisette Lombé, and Salma El Moumni are on the first selection for the Prix Médicis 2023 announced on Thursday, September 21, 2022. The Prix Médicis was founded by Gala Barbisan and Jean-Pierre Giraudoux to recognise a novel, a story, a collection of short stories whose author begins or does not yet have a…
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Prix Ivoire for African Literature 2023 finalists announced.
The finalists for Prix Ivoire for African Literature in Francophone Expression 2023, Cote D’Ivoire’s leading literary prize, were announced in Abidjan on August 17, 2023. The Prix Ivoire for African Literature in Francophone Expression or simply Prix Ivoire is a literary award created by Akwaba Culture, an Ivorian law association in 2008. Open to writers…