Eurostat Survey: Cyprus performs poorly in the reading stakes
Cyprus emerged as one of the EU countries with the lowest percentage of book readers, just above Romania, which reported the lowest reading rate at 29.5%. Ouch!
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Author: Mark Williams
Syria’s Qasioun Creative Literary Festival
together students, writers, and literary enthusiasts to celebrate and explore the themes of resistance literature.
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Audible’s “first AI-powered search for audiobooks” fuel unfounded fears about the future of human narration
AI narration of audiobooks, while understandably initially perceived as a threat, can actually offer several benefits to human narrators, if they are willing to embrace the opportunity unfolding.
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In Qatar, Moroccan literature stands out at the 10th Katara Prize for Arabic Fiction
A total prize pool of $650,000 is on offer, with main prize standing at $200,000.
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Meet Malaysia’s youngest published author, seven years old
As a kid I filled exercise book after exercise book with stories, that on occasion impressed my teachers, but being a published author, or indeed any form of writing for a living, was never an option when it came to discussing my future with the careers officer, whose imagination ran the full gamut of job options from road sweeper to sweeper of roads to highway hygienist, with the promise of one day owning my own broom.
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