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Pleasure Through Reading - Zambia

This project uses television programmes to stimulate and promote reading in Zambia.
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Sisulu biography wins Noma Award 2003

Elinor Sisulu’s biography of Walter and Albertina Sisulu has won the 24th Noma Award for Publishing in Africa, a hat-trick for Cape Town publishers David Philip.
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John Maxwell Coetzee wins the Nobel Prize for Literature 2003

The Swedish Academy have announced that South African writer John Maxwell Coetzee is winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2003.
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Crossing Borders programme Phase 2 (West Africa) under way

The Department of English and Creative Writing at Lancaster University is running a distance-learning programme for African writers who already have some experience in poetry ...
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New status for Cape Town's Centre for the Book

South Africa’s Centre for the Book has been recognised by the Department of Arts & Culture as a ‘Special Project’ of the National Library.
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Final blow to Heinemann African Writers Series.

The Heinemann International Division, which published the African Writers Series (AWS) for 40 years, was closed down earlier this month with the loss of 30 jobs ...
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Caine Prize 2003 winner announced : Another Kenyan win

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor has been awarded the $15,000 2003 Caine Prize for African Writing, for her short story ‘Weight of Whispers’ , published in Kwani? in 2003.
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Board closes office and postpones South African International Festival of Books (Bookeish!) indefinitely.

Interim fundraising targets had not been reached when the Board of the South African International Festival of Books (Bookeish!) met at the beginning of July.
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Books for Africa - IBBY Congress 2004 call for papers...

In coming to Cape Town in September 2004, IBBY Congress comes for the first time to Africa. BOOKS FOR AFRICA will have two broad tracks - a celebration of the abundance of African storytelling & its heritage all over the world.
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Tragic death of Siphikelelo (Spike) Gaura, ZIBF's Programme and Information Officer

It is with the greatest regret and sorrow that the Zimbabwe International Book Fair has to announce the death of Siphikelelo (Spike) Gaura, the ZIBF's Programme and Information Officer. Spike had been battling with a heart condition for some time. Many of ...
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Zimbabwe International Book Fair gets a new Executive Director

Mr Samuel Matsangaise has been appointed to the position of Executive Director of ZIBF. Mr Matsangaise is a former editor at Zimbabwe Publishing House and was the ...
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André Brink wins The Commonwealth Writers Prize

An international judging panel, meeting in South Africa has awarded the 2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize Best Book Award, Africa region to André Brink for The Other Side of Silence. The Best First Book Award was awarded to ...
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Caine Prize for African Writing 2003 shortlist announced

A shortlist of five African writers has been chosen by the panel of judges for this year’s Caine Prize for African Writing. The winner of the US$15,000 prize will be announced on 14 July, in Oxford, UK.
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Cambridge University Press Internships for Graduates

As part of its commitment to equality of opportunity in the workplace, between 2004 and 2010 the African Branch of Cambridge University Press will be making available two internships per year for suitably qualified PDI graduates to receive intensive and in-depth training in all the main aspects of publishing.
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BOOKS FOR AFRICA - IBBY CONGRESS 2004 CALL FOR PAPERS, WORKSHOPS & POSTER SESSIONS

In coming to Cape Town in September 2004, IBBY Congress comes for the first time to Africa. BOOKS FOR AFRICA will have two broad tracks - a celebration of the abundance of African storytelling & its heritage all over the world; and then an exploration of how to provide African young people with the books they urgently need.
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Antwerp to be World Book Capital 2004

The city of Antwerp in Belgium has won the bid for World Book Capital 2004. The selection committee unanimously favoured Antwerp because of the excellence of the programme submitted, including a number of aspects of book promotion, like book sales, books and reading, literature, services, crafts, books for the youths, books and cultural diversity and books and cultural minorities.
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Our New Email Address

Please note the new email address for the Bellagio Publishing Network: bellagio@bellagiopublishingnetwork.com. For more information, please go to the Contact Info page.

2003 Prague International Book Fair features Africa
Topic of fair’s central exhibition is African literature

9th Prague International Book Fair, 24th April-7th May 2003, focuses on Africa. The literary part of the programme will be prepared by the organiser in co-operation with its professional partners from abroad, international cultural institutions and will also focus on the African literary diaspora in order to offer as comprehensive a presentation of African literature and its publishers as possible.
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Bellagio Publishing Network Newsletter, Issue 31, 2002

Read the latest issue of the newsletter online, or download the PDF
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APNET secretariat on the move

The African Publishers Network secretariat has moved. As from 3 January 2003 their address is:
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