But as we travel further and further from established trade routes, things become hazier. The Caspian Sea is a blob, Madagascar has acquired an odd right arm, and India, well, India sprawls across the east, stretched and mutated into an
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Vancouver (April 9, 2008) - The Alcuin Society has announced the winners of its annual Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada. The judges, Sue Colberg, Associate Professor and Associate Chair (Undergraduate Studies) in...
The Canadian Children's Book Centre is seeking applicants for the position of British Columbia Regional Officer. This is a part-time position. The duties include: coordinating CCBC activities in British Columbia, liaising with local authors and illustrators, as well as publishers,...
Patrick French's V.S.Naipaul-biography, The World Is What It Is, has certainly stirred up quite a debate, but it's good to see that many are willing and able to separate man and books -- and Magnus Linklater now even suggests: "Far
In The word reflected in the mirror of society in the China Daily they survey the Chinese literary scene, as awards-season has apparently begun there. Meanwhile, the Wolf Totem-build-up continues, now with Judy Stoffman suggesting that Publication of hit Chinese
The April issue of Poetry is 'The Translation Issue', and it's well worth your while. A great selection of poets, poems, and translators, and with useful 'Translator's Notes' for each poem (or set of poems).
The Liberia Association of Writers (LAW) on Saturday, March 15, remembered fallen icons of Liberian writing through a group tour that culminated in the laying of wreathes and plaque on the tombs of Bai Tamia Moore and Joseph Jeffery Walters.
