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ANBA spoke with Laura di Pietro, who founded the publishing house alongside Ana Cartaxo. This month will see Table start releasing fictional work by Arab, Turkish and Iranian writers, translated directly into Brazilian Portuguese.
Publishing houses have recovered in the wake of the country’s improving economy, after problems faced with cost hikes in the dollar three years ago. Egypt has 500 publishing houses.
Author Wiana Aguiar will read a selection of poems from her children book, while Paulo Horta, professor of literature in NYU Abu Dhabi, discusses the book ‘Aladdin – A New Translation.’
The stitched binding technique was used by Copts to produce their first Biblical books. The researcher and artist Adriana Amaral will offer a stitching workshop in March in São Paulo.
The 4th edition of the event is taking place in the Saudi Arabian city featuring 440 publishers from 40 countries and over 100,000 titles available. The fair will run until January 5.
The works used to belong in the collection of the Embassy of Brazil in Kuwait. They were donated by ambassador Norton Rapesta to mark the 50th anniversary of Brazil-Kuwait diplomatic ties.
Online magazine Revista Pessoa will release translated works by 12 writers, including Milton Hatoum, Raduan Nassar, Marcelo Maluf and Socorro Acioli next year, via a partnership involving Abu Dhabi’s Kalima Project for Translation and the Arab Chamber.
