South Korean author Han Kang wins Nobel literature prize; becomes second South Korean Nobel laureate
SEOUL: Author Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, becoming the first South Korean to get the honor, a surprise feat that had her country rejoicing in disbelief. The Swedish Academy announced Han as this year’s laureate, recognizing the 53-year-old “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility […]
Afreximbank announces launch of CANEX prize for publishing in Africa
CAIRO: African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), a Pan-African multilateral financial institution mandated to finance, facilitate and promote intra and extra-African trade, has announced the launch of the CANEX Prize for Publishing in Africa, a partnership between the CANEX Book Factory and the Narrative Landscape Press Limited. The CANEX Book Factory, a key intervention under the […]
Ashraf Aboul-Yazid: Handshake of the Republics Festival is work for the future
By Editor Olga Ivanycheva YOSHKAR-OLA: On April 20, the VII Interregional Music and Poetry Festival “Handshake of the Republics” will take place in Yoshkar-Ola. This year the festival will be dedicated to the 225th anniversary of the birth of A.S. Pushkin. The program includes two poetry concerts, a round table “Family of the Volga Region”, […]
Ashraf Dali’s literary career celebrated in hometown cultural forum
BENHA, Egypt: On April 11, coinciding with the second day of Eid Al-Fitr, Ashraf Aboul-Yazid (Ashraf Dali) was hosted by Al-Aberoon Cultural Salon, in his home town Benha, for a forum to discuss his creative literary career. The Salon, moderated by writer and artist Mohammed Okasha, highlighted Asraf’s poetry books, novels, translation works, and travel […]
Ashraf Aboul-Yazid’s new Poetry Anthology
By Gioia Lomasti Poet, translator and editor, Italy ROME: Ashraf Aboul-Yazid (Ashraf Dali), Egypt, is President, Asia Journalist Association (AJA), since April 2016, Editor in Chief, THE SILK ROAD LITERATURE SERIES, a member of Egyptian Writers Union, and the National Coordinator of World Poetry Movement (WPM) in Egypt. He was awrded the Manhae Grand Prize in Literature, Korea […]
World Literary Award: Call for submissions
By Ashraf Aboul-Yazid President, Asia Journalists Association CAIRO: “WOW World Literary Prize” (the Prize) was established by the “World Organization of Writers” (WOW), the successor to the literary prize “Golden LIffT” – 2016-2023. Co-founders of the Prize are the Eurasian Peoples’ Assembly, the Pan-African Association of Writers PAWA, and the LIFFT Foundation for the Promotion […]
My Cat Writes a Book
By Ashraf Aboul-Yazid CAIRO: The special pleasure of receiving the prominent Sawiris Cultural Award for Children Literature was that it was my first award in Egypt, my homeland! I have been awarded and honored several times around the world. There were international recognitions with the 2014 Manhae Grand Prize in Literature (South Korea), the 2015 Arab Journalism Award in Culture (UAE), […]
A Street in Cairo, into Russian
By Ashraf Aboul-Yazid, President, Asia Journalists Assoicaiation CAIRO: Next month, Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, will host the signing ceremony of the poetic anthology “A Street in Cairo” by Ashraf Aboul-Yazid. The anthology, translated by the Azerbaijani poet Eldar Akhadov into Russian, is published in the Silk Road Literature Series. The book is a selection of several […]
Safety Waves versus Death Waves
A keynote speech at the 60th African literature and writers’ anniversary conference By Ashraf Aboul-Yazid IBADAN, NIGERIA: In our time, we live in more than one circle; circles that narrow and widen, touch, overlap and intersect, and sometimes even resist each other, and contradict with other circles. They are circles described as private and public, […]
Lomé hosts International Literary Symposium of Togo
The national monument of Togo is Independence Monument, Lomé By Ashraf Dali, President, Asia Journalists Association (AJA) LOMÉ: Professor Koumealo Anate, the President the Togolese Writers Association (AET), announced that the first edition of the International Literary Symposium of Togo (SYLITO) will be in the Togolese capital city Lomé on April 22- 23 on the theme: […]
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