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The six day event is being held under

the patronage o His Highness Sheikh

Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown

Prince o Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme

Commander o the UAE Armed Forces, and

will be open until Monday April 29.

This prestigious annual event is organised

by the Abu Dhabi Tourism and CultureAuthority (TCA Abu Dhabi) and was

ormally opened by His Highness in the

presence o Ambassadors and ocials

rom GCC, Arab and other international

countries.

The presence o so many dignitaries

representing Gul countries also reinorced

one o the primary themes o this years

Book Fair to ocus on the GCC region,

eaturing authors, poets as well as

perormances by musical ensembles rom

each o the six Gul nations every day at

the Fair.

Meanwhile the Fairs commitment to

inculcating a lielong love o books

and reading among young people was

demonstrated on the opening day

with the arrival o thousands o excited

schoolchildren rom across Abu Dhabi,

Al Ain and the Western Region, who

enjoyed special book readings and other

activities on the opening day as the halls

o the exhibition centre resonated with

their buzz and enthusiasm.

ADIBF has seen overwhelming exhibitor

and it continues to strengthen Abu

Dhabis reputation as a growing centre

o infuence in the global publishing

industry. The diverse group o exhibitors

and books on display refect the richness

o the book air. It has also been

enormously encouraging to see so manyschoolchildren visit and enjoy the wide

range o special events that we have or

children over the coming days.

Following the ocial opening ceremony

the ADIBF is now buzzing with activity as

visitors have the opportunity to experience

a host o new initiatives including new

panel discussions, presentations, talks

and networking opportunities, which are

even more cutting-edge this year.

Over the coming days these include

discussions on the battle between print

and on-screen reading or children;

how literary prizes act as a catalyst or

supporting creativity; environmentally

riendly publishing; a eminist perspective

on language and society and an attemptto build a replica o the Al Hosn Fort using

books and many more.

The ADIBF 2013 is open daily from 9am

to 10pm every day, except on Friday

when it will be open from 4pm to 10pm.

Entrance is free.

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Abu Dhabi International Book Fair 2013

23rd Abu Dhabi International Book Fair

24 - 29 March 2013

H.E. Sheikh Sultan bin TahnoonAl Nahyan ocially opens

Abu Dhabi International Book FairHis Excellency Sheikh Sultan

Bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan ,

the Chairman o the

Abu Dhabi Tourism and

Culture Authority (TCA

Abu Dhabi), ocially

opened the 23rd Abu Dhabi

International Book Fair[ADIBF] 2013 at the Abu

Dhabi National Exhibition

Centre [ADNEC] on

ADIBF has seenoverwhelming

exhibitor responseand it continues to

strengthenAbu Dhabis

reputation as agrowing centre oinfuence in the

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MASTHEAD

The Made in UAE project is now displaying

the ruits o a joint labor that began in April

2011: seven new Emirati childrens books.

These seven books are the result o a joint

venture between the UAE Board on Books or

Young People (UAEBBY) and Goethe-Institut

and were brought to lie through workshopsled by German childrens book author and

illustrator Ute Krause.

All seven are on display at the air: Four are

already in print and available or purchase,

one is scheduled or publication this all, and

two are on display in mock-up orm. They

range rom the hilarious The Runaway Louse,

written by Maitha Al Khayat and illustrated

by Abdullah Al Sharhan (Jarrous Press), to

the gentle, poetic Umm Jadeeda, written by

Mariam Al Rashedi and illustrated by Reem

Al Mazrouei (Dar Al Alam Al Arabi).

Marwa Al Aqroubi, president o the UAEBBY,

said that the project was conceived as a way

o encouraging young Emirati illustratorsand writers to produce books that refect

local culture and concerns. Susanne Sporrer,

General Manager o the Goethe-Institute in

the Gul, added that there are many

German childrens books in Arabic

translation. But instead o bringing

more German picture books into

Arabic, the Goethe wanted

to help oster the creation o new

Emirati-authored books.

You always need books rom your own

culture, Sporrer said. You can only enjoy

childrens books rom another culture when

you have your own.

The seven books were written by six Emirati

authors and illustrated by seven Emiratiartists. The group included more veteran

authors, such as Maitha al-Khayat and Reem

Al Gurg, but there were also several who had

never been published.

Noura Al-Khoori, author o the sweet Fanteer,

the Fluy Flamingo (orthcoming November

2013) and the playul Golden Dates, joined

the project at its inception. She said that she

was interested in writing childrens books,

but I went in knowing nothing about it.

Al-Khoori came to the rst set o workshops

with drats o her two books. But, she said,

they changed signicantly through the talks

and critique sessions and through test

readings with children.In the workshops, the authors and illustrators

critiqued one anothers work. But al-Khoori

said these critiques didnt end with the

workshops. The authors and illustrators

have ormed a core group that continues

to comment on and support one anothers

work.

The seven books can be seen at the Made

in UAE

Made in the UAE: The Fruits o Collaborationby M. Lynx Qualey

Emirati-Germanventure brings

seven all-

Emirati picturebooks to air.


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24 - 29 April 2013

Satirist Andrei Kurkov Turns Fiction into a FunhouseRefection o Realityby Edward Nawotka

Acclaimed Ukrainian writer Andrei Kurkov was a sel-

publisher long beore it became trendy. Kurkov wanted to

publish his novel The World o Mr. Big Forehead, as well as

a childrens book, The Adventures o Baby Vacuum Cleaner

Gosha, and borrowed $16,000 to buy six tons o paper orm

a supplier in Kazakhstan. Not book paper, but paper or

wrapping up ood. And instead o a traditional book printer,

he was orced to enlist the services o a sheet music printer.

What I did as a sel-publishers was probably

never repeated, he explains. It was 1992

and we had a unique situation a total crisis

in Russia. Instead o police and courts, the

maa was replacing the state a scenario

refected in his 1996 novel Death and the

Penguin.

He continues, From one side it was crazy

easy to organize things, but on the other hand

it was incredibly risky. The biggest risk: not

getting paid.

One night, ater he collected 10,000 copies

o his books rom a distributor whod ailedto pay or the books, he paid a uneral home

to cart the books away. But since he couldnt

unload them until the next day, he bribed the

driver with vodka to let him sleep with the

books so they wouldnt be stolen.

For 18 months I wasnt writing, but printing,

publishing, selling and chasing down people

who owed me money. The experience made

me stronger. It was useul. It taught me the

system and how to treat dishonest people

accordingly.

In the end, he made a prot o $700.

Today, Kurkov is amous throughout much

o Europe and known or his oddly prescient

surrealist ction, which includes his latestnovel The Milkman in the Night, about a

woman who sells her breast milk in the streets

o Kiev to survive, to The Presidents Last Love,

which eatured the poisoning o the Ukrainian

president and was published six months

beore the same thing happened to Ukraines

actual president Viktor Yushchenko was

himsel poisoned. O course, Kurkovs novel

was ction and set in a arcical uture 2016.

Even though his books have refected and

even predicted reality, Kurkov points out that

readers dont want to nd the same stu in

books that they nd in the news, especially in

countries that have labored under oppressive

regimes, like the Soviet Union.In the soviet period, nearly all the ction

were anti-communist airy tales books like

Bulgakovs or Sinyavskis. And Latin America

produced magic realism. The reason, or

example, you see a lot o straight prose come

out o countries like France and Germany

countries that like to read airy tales and

exotic stories today is that countries with

a stable political system produce realistic

writers. Language is a refection o politics.

Comortable writers produce comortable

books.

Andrei Kurkov will be interviewed by

Publishing Perspectives Editor-in-chiefEdward Nawotka today from 19:15-20:15 at

The Tent.


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This morning, from 11:15 to 12:15, a

panel of professionals from Turkey,

Finland, Lebanon, and the US will discuss

Current Trends in Childrens Book

Publishing in Capital Suite 19, where they

will talk about the publications o childrens

titles in their respective markets and try to

identiy emerging trends.

The panels host, Zeynep Sevde Paksu, Litera

Literary Agency in Turkey previewed some o

the topics she hopes to cover, which include:

Which books are most successul when it

comes to sell oreign language rights?

Which topics and imaginary worlds

are appealing or a global audience o

children?

Do apps and eBooks revive the pleasure

o reading or can they be perceived as a

danger to the printed book?

Books or young male readers havent

been very successul: have there been any

changes in the perception o this target

group?

What kind o books do you buy rom other

countries? Panelist Shereen Kreidieh, Asala

o Lebanons Asala Publishers shared her

initial thoughts:

During the panel, I will be discussing trendsin the Arab world and the eect o the market

on our publications. I will also be discussing

trends in translation, and the diculty in

selling copyrights, whether rom competition

rom other languages, not having a rights

department, the cos ts involved in taking in

part in international book airs, or the general

diculties in selling Arab publications to a

non-Arab market.

Trends in Childrens PublishingAround the World

Fellow panelist Iris Schwanck, Director, FILI

Finnish Literature Exchange, said that rom

her point o view:

We are talking nowadays o apps andreading devices together with the more

traditional printed books. Boys read less

than girls everywhere, and this is a challenge

or publishers and authors, teachers and

parents alike.

In Finland, no subjects are o limits in

childrens and young adult books. Fun

books, anarchy and idyll, love stories, sore

spots and expanding the consciousness

the whole span o human lie is present in

Finnish books or children. In addition, Finish

children and youth have excellent reading

skills, and this is an asset when selling rights

to Finnish childrens books buyers want to

present to new audiences those books thatthe excellent young readers o Finland do

read!

And nally, panelist John Quattrocchi rom

Proessionals rom Turkey, Finland,Lebanon, and the US oer insights as to

whats hot

by Dennis Abrams

The publishing world is experiencing a dramatic and

exciting transormation. ut even with the various digital

shits occurring in adult ction, childrens print books are

still going strong in the United States

Albert Whitman in the United States added

that, rom his perspective:

The publishing world is experiencing a

dramatic and exciting transormation. Buteven with the various digital shits occurring

in adult ction, childrens print books are still

going strong in the United States. Among

those books that are selling well, some

genres seem to sell better than others. And

what works in the United States may not

work in other countries or vice versa. But as

readers nd more ways to connect globally

with other readers through social media,

the catalog o books people choose to

read expands. In my portion o the panel,

Ill be talking about what works in the U.S.

childrens book market and where theres

room or international growth.

With such a wide range o publishers

rom ar fung locales, it should make or a

ascinating conversation.


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24 - 29 April 2013

Rawi Hage nished his

third novel, Carnival, about

the chaotic lie o a taxi

driver, during a yearlong

residency in Berlin.

Published last all by House

o Anansi, it quickly earned

reviews such as this one in

Canadas Globe and Mail:

What I thought o Hage and [his

second novel] Cockroach is rearmed

and reinorced by Carnival. The

things that make Rawi Hage a major

literary talent include reshness, gut-

wrenching lyricism, boldness, emotional

restraint, intellectual depth, historical

sense, political subversiveness and

uncompromising compassion.

To say that Hage began his literary

career with a bang would not be anexaggeration his rst novel, De Niros

Game, won the 2008 international

IMPAC Dublin literary award, beating

competitors such as Thomas Pynchon

and Philip Roth. Already in his mid-40s

when his rst book was published, Hage

had let his native Beirut during the civil

war in 1984, lived and worked odd jobs

in New York prior to landing in Montreal

where he drove a taxi and studied ne

arts and photography. When he began to

write, it was in English, which is not his

mother tongue. Hage grew up speaking

Arabic and was educated in French but

living in New York he had gotten into thehabit o operating in English.

It wasnt an ideological or political

decision, it was just circumstances and

immigration displacement. Language

becomes a necessary tool or survival,

said Hage. But Hages case is a perect

illustration o how English is not only

a bridge language but also one that

is used by writers today who are not

necessarily rom the ormer British

Empire. Hages gut-wrenching lyricism

perhaps echoes the poetry in Arabic; his

complex, ashioned, sentences remind

one o French.

Although Hages books have been

translated into both French and Arabic,

he said, I dont think the Arab world

knows o my existence. Frankly, it hurts

me that Im so eclipsed in the Arab

world. And the Francophone world

doesnt care about writers who write in

English, they are attached to the French

world.Northern American cities are the

backdrop or Hages vast cast o

characters in his two books ollowing De

Niros Game, which is set during the civil

war in Beirut. Nevertheless, Hage says

there will most likely be an aspect o the

Middle East in all his novels, one o the

reasons being that it was the birthplace

o three major religions. I have a

dialogue with religions, he says, its a

history I know well.

And though he remains something

o a stranger in a strange land, Hage

says that Montreal suits him. It is city

in which everyone eels or seems likea minority. It reminds me o Beirut,

everything is contested and negotiated.

In a bizarre way I eel very much at

ease and happy in this contingent

atmosphere.

Rawi Hage will be in conversation with

Nezar Andary today from 17:4518:45

at The Tent.

Rawi Hages WindingRoad to Success

The Lebanese-Canadian Authorlives in Montreal

and writes inEnglish, but saysthe Middle East

will always be parto his novels.

by Olivia Snaije

Have Pen,Ink and

Brushes...Will Travelby Olivia Snaije

Ater a chance encounter with the

Kitab team at the childrens book air

in Bologna three years ago, Gemma

Cortabitarte, general manager o the The

Proessional Association o Illustrators o

Catalonia (APIC) and Miguel Gallardo, an

illustrator and president o APIC arrived

at the Abu Dhabi book air ready and

enthusiastic to present their illustratorsto Arab editors and publishers.

No one knows where Catalonia is

but they do know Barcelona, said

Miguel Gallardo, reerring to the

strong independent streak the region

o Catalonia has always had. He

and Cortabitarte were painstakingly

assembling a vinyl map o the city

created by the Barcelona design

company Chispum on the wall o their

stand.

Two o APICs illustrators already work

in the region: Pep Montserrat, or The

National newspaper out o Abu Dhabi,

and Betania Zacarias, or Kalimat. ButBarcelona, which has long been known

or its art, modernist architecture and

design, has illustrators such as Jordi

Labanda, Berto Martinez, Luci Gutierrez,

Mariscal, and Ana Juan working or

numerous magazines and newspapers

across the globe

APIC is in the process o helping their

members internationalize, not only

because the economic crisis encourages

people to look elsewhere or work, but

also because today, anyone can work

rom anywhere. Indeed, Gallardo, whose

work has appeared on the cover o The

New Yorker, in The New York Times and

in German magazines Annabelle and

Burda, among others, will be giving atalk or illustrators on how to prepare a

portolio.

Here are some o his tips or working

internationally:

I you work via email with other

countries, try to make sure that

you understand all the cultural and

religious traditions o each country.

Take into account the dierent time

zones, so that you dont wake up an art

director at three in the morning.

I you are working outside o your

country you will probably need anagent who knows how things work in

that country. You can also be your own

agent but you will have to learn about

the dierent legislative laws, which can

be kind o boring.

I you are researching inormation

about an art director or a creative

director you should also nd out about

the newspapers policy or main ideas.

And nally, be obsessively curious,

proactive and passionate about your

work.

Miguel Gallardos talk, A Good

Portfolio can Save your Life will be

presented at the professional session,

Illustrators: How to Prepare your

Portfolio along with Noura al Masry,

General Manager, Cartoon Art Gallery

(Dubai) today at 14:30-16:00 in Capital

Suite 19.


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One o the enduring mysteries o ebook

development and sales is why some

countries seem to adopt the technology

aster than others. This isnt really a mattero economic or technological development.

Take or instance Italy and the UK. Both have

similar economic proles and are similar

technologically i anything the Italians, with

the highest mobile phone penetration rate

in the world and ubiquitous smartphones

and gadgetry are ahead. But proportionally

Britain, with the same population, reads

many many more ebooks than Italy.

You might then argue that this is because

Britons just read more, ull stop. But

Germans, who read more books per head

than the British, also read ar ewer ebooks,

although more than the Italians? Why shouldthis be so? Why do Australians read more

ebooks than Singaporeans, why is there

more excitement about ebooks in Brazil

compared to China?

There are a ew actors at work. Firstly is

the driving orce o Amazon. Countries with

a strong and well established Amazon

presence have been rst in the ring

line or ebooks, as Amazon has invested

hugely in promoting and supporting their

Kindle system. The impact o having this

expensive, ocused campaign cannot be

underestimated.Secondly, countries with xed price book

laws like many countries in Continental

Europe nd it harder to launch ebooks.

The reason is simple: xed price laws mean

ebooks are always the same price as print

books, meaning or a digital product are

extremely expensive. Consumers cannot

begin to understand why they should pay

the same price or an immaterial product

as a physical one and we can all understand

that. Open pricing markets like the US

and the UK make down pricing ebooks an

inherent part o the game and thereore a

more appealing customer proposition.

Lastly I think attitude has something to do

with it. Some nations revere the print book

more than others. In France or example

parliament regularly debates and, more

to the point, actively supports publishers,

writers, independent bookshops and reading

culture generally. Writers and intellectuals

have great public status and clout. The

dierence with the UK could hardly be more

stark law makers and the public have no

interest in debating let alone supporting

the world o books. Since the symbolic

importance o the print book is less, the way

paved or ebooks greater.

None o these are hard and ast rules and noone can pretend to ully understand all the

processes at work.

So, what will drive global ebook

development in the next ew years? All o

the above obviously, and Amazon and its

strategic growth plan especially. What else?

Reading on mobile phones in India and

Arica is showing intriguing signs o taking

o. Samsung have become an almost

unequalled orce in the world o technology

and it will be interesting to see i they can

leverage their mighty global reach in the

ebook space. Kobo are still in the mix and

Google Play is becoming a more vibrant,exciting and commercially appealing

platorm by the day. Sony and the Barnes

and Noble Nook will still be skirmishing or

market share. The competition between

all o these players, all o them with large

marketing budgets, will drive ebooks.

Ebooks are becoming accepted readers:

they are no longer exotic, but ordinary

consumer purchases like iPods. People now

understand ereading can complement and

work with print reading.

In many territories pricing strategy is

becoming more nuanced and intelligent.Publishers have a better sense o what

works, what margins are possible and what

drives demand. In general this means lower

ebook pricing which makes the transition to

ereading less o a compromise.

My argument about ebook development has

always been people either expect things to

happen too ast or too slowly; we were told

ebooks would be the biggest thing in the

world overnight or would never gain traction.

Neither was correct. Ebooks have seen solid

growth, now slowing in mature markets as

one would expect. Given the presence o all

the above actors, Id say the glass is hal ullor ebooks around the world.

Michael Bhaskar is Digital Publishing

Director at Prole Books and Serpents

Tail. He can be found on Twitter as

@ajaxlogos. Hell be speaking today

in the eZone on the topic of The

Development of Digital Markets

Globally from 16:40-17:45.

Observing the great

distance between

expectations and reality

on this topicwhen

these expectations are

mostly personal ones andnot based on sources

in the classical sense o

the wordseems to be

a dicult undertaking,

necessarily prolonged by

error here and there. This

is especially true when

literature is construed as a

cultural practice and as an

expression o a particular

position on knowledgeand the world, and it

requires dealing with all the

dierent artistic trends in

literature that have been

dominant or are dominant

now, as well as literatures

diverse contents.

Around the world ebooks are no longerexotic and big companies are key to

pushing the market orward

Glass Hal Full? Global eBookDevelopment in 2013 by Michael Bhaskar


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24 - 29 April 2013

Written by the 31-year-old Kuwaiti novelist

Saoud Al Sanousi, the book tackles the

hot issue o the dicult living conditions

o the Philippine workers in the Arab

countries, an issue that grows with urgency

year ater year. He explains: The way to

promote books has developed. I we want

to promote a book, now we need to post

on Twitter and on the other social networkstalk about it. The readers have a lso

developed a new taste in literature. Now

they want to read novels about sentimental

relationships and current problems.

Chebaro is proud that Al Sanousi won the

award, stating that he knew the book was

going to win because it gets to the core o

what it is an real and widespread issue,

both in Lebanon and in the Gul Region, as

many people in the Arab countries avail

themselves o the help o Philippine maids

in their houses, said the publisher.

The book, he says had something special

about it that convinced him to publish

it a peculiar sensation or smell that

the Lebanese publisher looks or when heselects new books to publish during the

year. It is very hard to choose between the

300 titles coming in or submission each

year. We receive a lot o pressure by the

writers who want their books published.

Usually we read the rst 30-40 pages o

each book we get, and choose the ones

where we are able to eel that sensation. I

we experience that, we know that the book

has the strength to be published and that it

will be successul. The Bamboo Stalk had

that smell.

Chebaro is also the publisher o the

27-year-old Jana El Hassans book I,

She and the Others, one o the six titles

shortlisted this year: When you publish

books written by young authors, winning

becomes much more pleasant, said

proudly.

Chebaro also said that additional copies

oThe Bamboo Stalk will be published

over the next days, as more and new

orders have already arrived, and thecover will boast o having won the IPAF

Award. Chebaro, who ater the ceremony

was approached by a group o oreign

publishers wanting to get inormation on

the books rights, said that unortunately,

as o late Wednesday, no English publisher

has yet approached him, though the book

is just the sort o book an English publisher

might do well by publishing.

Meet Lebanons Arab Scientic

Publishers, Publisher o the2013 IPAF Winner by Chiara Comito

As ar as books are

concerned, things have

changed in the Arab world

and it is time we realize it,

armed Lebanese publisher

Bassem Chebaro, owner o

Arab Scientic Publishers,

the renown Lebanese

publishing house that

published The Bamboo Stalk,

winner o years International

Prize or Arabic Fiction

(IPAF).

When youpublish books

written by youngauthors, winning

becomes muchmore pleasant.


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