“A voiceless nation, too busy staying alive to create literary pieces in...
In what is believed to be a first, a Kurdish woman will be publishing a novel written in English. Reports Publishers Weekly in its Global Deals email: In a three-way auction, Chelsea Hutchens won world...
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As the Tehran International Book Fair goes head to head with at least 8 other...
Starting April 24 and running through until May 4, the 32nd Tehran International Book Fair has China as guest of honour this year, and as usual the event promises to be spectacular, with around 2...
View ArticleIran’s Association of Islamic Revolution Publishers’ Seyyed Ali Andarzgu...
The Seyyed Ali Andarzgu Literary Awards were launched this week by Iran’s Association of Islamic Revolution Publishers, with the objective to honour books about the 1979 Iranian Revolution that...
View ArticleOman’s Muscat International Book Fair pulls a crowd of “only” 706,000 as...
Having attracted a crowd of over 1 million for two years running, the latest Muscat International Book Fair, which wound up yesterday in Oman, managed to pull in only 760,000 this year. That’s an...
View ArticleIran sees 4-fold increase in ebook and audiobook downloads during coronavirus...
It’s a similar story around the world where ebooks and digital audiobooks are readily available. Whether because of compulsory lockdown or just an understandable wariness of venturing out more than...
View ArticleIran begins to tentatively re-open its bookstores, but will consumers be...
China, Italy, Denmark, Germany and now Iran are among the countries tentatively allowing bookstores to re-open as lockdown rules are eased, but we’re still a long way from any return to pre-pandemic...
View ArticleIran’s Tehran International Book Fair cancelled for 2020
Originally scheduled for April, it was announced in February that the 2020 Tehran International Book Fair, which typically attracts around 2 million visitors, would be postponed until after Ramadan,...
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Serbia’s publishers lead the West’s presence at Iran’s First Virtual Tehran...
It’s not clear yet how successful the event has been – the regular book fair is Iran’s largest cultural event – but it’s likely we will see hybrid virtual and in-person events hereon, not least...
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100 Publishers Account for ¾ of Iran’s book publishing by volume
At a time when many publisher representatives in the Middle East and South Asia are clinging to analogue models and talking down virtual events and digital reading, Qadiyani’s comments are refreshing,...
View ArticleIran eyes ASEAN as an 800 million people market at the Indonesian...
“Entering Indonesia is entering the ASEAN region, which has a population of about 800 million people. We can look at this region as an 800-million book market.” As the largest Islamic state in the...
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