Pierre Jarawan: Lebanon to Germany, Slam Poet to Bestselling Novelist
Of Lebanese and German parentage, poet and author Pierre Jarawan will speak in the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair’s Guest of Honor Germany program.
Pierre Jarawan. Image: Marvin Ruppert
By Chip Rossetti
Live Poems and Missing Persons
Slam poetry is big business in Germany, according to novelist and veteran slam poet Pierre Jarawan.
“Germany has the biggest and most professional slam scene in the world,” he says. After all, a typical German slam poetry event draws a crowd of 500 people and sometimes fills 1,500-seat theaters, making it, in his words, “a mainstream event.”
Spanish-Language Digital Publishing: A New Report
In a batch of new analysis based on Bookwire’s Spanish-language clients, a coda cautions the industry about ‘What We Need To Learn.’
In Segovia, during the ‘pandemic summer’ of 2020, this shot made on August 24. Image – Getty iStockphoto: Javier Gonzalez
A Seventh Report from Bookwire and Dosdoce
By the time you get through the new
Evolution of the Digital Market report for 2021, it may be 2022. But you can’t say that this extensive, 70-page PDF doesn’t offer a lot of information.
Released today (May 18), this is the seventh iteration of the annual assessment from the Frankfurt-based Bookwire‘s Spanish arm and the long-established consultancy Dosdoce in Bilbao. It’s produced by gathering information from at least 840 publishers in Spain and Latin America. Those 840+ publishers are customers of Bookwire, described as “involved in distribution via the Bookwire OS platform.”
Sheikh Zayed Book Award at AIDBF: Its Cultural Program
In four important programs at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award will present commentary from and conversation with many of its winners, from both 2020 and 2021.
Image: Sheikh Zayed Book Award
Award Ceremony on Monday
During the upcoming 30th edition of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair running Sunday (May 23) through May 29 the Sheikh Zayed Book Award not only will hold its annual ceremony to honor its 2021 winners in eight categories, but will also will produce a cultural program reflective of its 15-year mission on select, recognize, and promote the work of outstanding writers, intellectuals, and publishers as well as young talent whose writing and translation in the humanities objectively enriches Arab intellectual, cultural, literary, and social life.