
The Jerusalem International Book Fair happens every other year, and draws over 1200 publishers from around the world. Founded in 1963, the Fair includes participants from the Arab world, including Palestine, Morocco, Egypt, and Jordan. The Fair tries to cultivate new talent by offering editorial and agent fellowship programs, and their prestigious Jerusalem Prize has been awarded to five authors who also received the Nobel Prize for literature. According to the Fair’s website, the prize is awarded, “to a writer whose work best expresses and promotes the idea of the ‘freedom of the individual in society.’ ” Jerusalem Prize winners include Bertrand Russell, Jorge Luis Borges, Eugene Ionesco, Simone de Beauvoir, Graham Green, Milan Kundera, J. M. Coetsee, Susan Sontag, Arthur Miller, and Haruki Murakami. Quite an impressive set of authors!
More information about the Jerusalem International Book Fair may be found at http://www.jerusalembookfair.com/main.html.
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