“It became essential to find a home. So in 1980, we came to the university and they thought what a good idea because they teach education, they have graphic design, they have literature, they have history, they have cultural heritage,” Dr Alderman said.

(NEW YORK)— PEN America today criticized a decision by the Millburn School District in Illinois to pull out of the Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Book Award, a statewide program celebrating children’s literature, as “placing ideology over pedagogy or children’s needs.” During a board meeting this month, one member expressed that he was “deeply offended” by and…

MOU signing with the Severino family. The IBBY-PH proudly announces the launch of The Severino Reyes Medal, a prestigious award honoring the most outstanding picture books, storybooks, and young adult books published in the Philippines over the past decade. Since 1967, on or around Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday, April 2nd, the  International Children’s Book Day…

THE MOTHER of all war novels, to adapt a phrase from Saddam Hussein, must be “War and Peace”. But, just as the BBC’s “Desert Island Discs” gives every castaway a Bible and the complete works of Shakespeare, so we will plonk on your bookshelves Leo Tolstoy’s epic, assuming they are not already sagging under its…

But the day of the inaugural Books on the Bay literary festival last year dawned in spectacular fashion.  It was a perfect March morning with vivid blue skies and the sea was shimmering. There was not the faintest breeze and the locals from every angle could be seen spilling down onto Saint George’s Street in…

“I am a lawyer,” I nodded humbly, breath bated for the reaction I wanted—no, needed—to receive.  I said this to most people I met, as opposed to “I work in a law firm.” An innocuous difference at first, but one which belied a deep reliance on my job for my self-worth. I didn’t merely work…

Latvia will be represented in Leipzig as usual by the platform Latvian Literature and the printing company Jelgava Typography, while authors doing the rounds include Anete Melece, Lote Vilma Vītiņa, Laura Vinogradova, Toms Treibergs, Ligija Purinaša, Māris Salējs and Inga Pizāne. This year, the national stand in Leipzig reverts to the successful #iamintrovert theme that has become a popular fixture at many…

Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm The deprivation of rights for imprisoned critics of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reached a new level, with inmates arbitrarily denied access to books, particularly foreign language publications that include world classics, purportedly due to security concerns. The latest manifestation of this pervasive paranoia within Turkish prisons overseen by the Justice Ministry…

David here with some of my favorite selections from our Literature of Resistance Book Club. In that club we focus on writers and thinkers who have fought against the oppression of marginalized people across the globe, and while I don’t usually agree with everything they write, the perspective I gain from reading these works has…