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Books ready for free download this year include today’s release of Keiichiro Hirano’s bestseller in Tokyo, ‘At the End of the Matinee.’
‘This Complex Diversity’
The author of
At the End of the Matinee leans in and sports a slightly impish smile when he hears a question he likes to answer.
Better in English than he gives himself credit for being, Keiichiro Hirano, has heard the phrase “language of relationships” in an interview with
Publishing Perspectives from his home in Japan. He’s being asked through interpreter Beth Cary about the modulating personalities in his books–intelligent, shifting souls who seem to surprise themselves as much as his readers as they move from one guise to another.
Budapest to Submit Bid for UNESCO World Book Capital 2023 Title
The city of Budapest will submit its bid for the UNESCO World Book Capital 2023 title on Thursday, the mayor’s office said.
The programme has been put together in cooperation with Hungarian publishers, Budapest’s cultural institutions and state agencies, the office told MTI in a statement.
Programmes have been designed to promote reading and the notions of action, freedom and community, the statement said.
“We believe that through books, reading and shared cultural experiences we can express the essence of the freedom of mind and knowledge, as much as we can expose issues related to environmental protection and climate change, and this way we can also exhibit what we have in common and what connects us humans,” the statement cited Mayor Gergely Karácsony as saying.
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Accra To Bid For The Unesco World Book Capital, 2023
By Daniel Ofosu-Asamoah
MAR 5, 2021
Accra is poised to be declared as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Book Capital for the year 2023. This was disclosed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) and Mayor of Accra, Mr Nii Adjei Sowah, after a meeting in Accra with some officials of the Ghana Book Development Council (GBDC) and the AMA. The title, the Mayor announced, would help put Accra on the world map of books, promote reading and literacy in Accra (and the country in general), and also boost the domestic book industry. The title will also help increase the inflow of foreign tourists to Accra and grow the domestic economy.