The Jaipur Literature Festival,celebrated globally as an iconic celebration of books, ideas and storytelling, announces another set of distinguished speakers for its upcoming 19th edition. The Festival will take place from January 15-19,…

Publishing Perspectives Editor-in-Chief Porter Anderson passed away recently, leaving behind an irreparable loss for the global publishing community. A distinguished career journalist, Anderson contributed to an extraordinary range of news…

Organized by the Sharjah Book Authority, the Sharjah Festival of African Literature will be held in January 2026 at University City Hall, Sharjah. It will have regional focus on Eastern and Southern Africa: Zanzibar, Ethiopia, South Africa.…

PublisHer returned to Europe with the PublisHer Lounge at the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair. “PublisHer continues to mature and grow into an international change movement,” said Bodour Al Qasimi, PublisHer’s Founder. “We’ve evolved from…

PublisHer has partnered with Shimmr AI, a pioneering platform in AI-powered Autonomous Advertising, to expand access to high-quality AI education, mentorship and visibility for women-led publishing businesses around the world.Through this…

The Training Programme for Arab and African Publishers 2025 brought together 161 publishers; including 75 from across Africa; along with authors and publishing professionals from around the world. The programme addressed key industry…

Lyndal Roper has won the 2025 US$75,000 Cundill History Prize for Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War. (John Murray Press / Basic Books).Fellow finalists, Marlene L. Daut and Sophia Rosenfeld, will each be awarded US$10,000.…

The Philippines’ Guest of Honour presentation at Frankfurter Buchmesse 2025 featured more than 100 authors, illustrators, creatives and diverse voices from across the archipelago. At the fair, the Guest of honour handover ceremony was held,…

On November 17-18, the IPA Educational Publishers Forum was held in Antwerp and was hosted by the IPA member, the Flemish Educational and Scientific Publishers Association (GEWU). Later in November, the African EPF held an online meeting.…

The London Book Fair (LBF) has revealed the Authors of the Fair line-up for 2026, as well as their first ever Narrator of the Fair.The line-up will feature: author, illustrator and creator of the sensational Heartstopper series Alice…