Celebrated Arab authors, thinkers to convene at Sharjah book fair
Guests to share experiences through a series of discussions
The 40th edition of Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF), organised by the Sharjah Book Authority (SBA), will host a stellar gathering of award-winning Arab authors, intellectuals, poets and artistes, who will headline a wide variety of events, including literary seminars, panel discussions and book signings during the fair.
The 11-day , which will run from November 3-13 at Expo Centre Sharjah under the theme ‘There’s always a right book’, will showcase several noted homegrown talents. They include poet and novelist Maysoon Al Qasimi, author of In my Mouth, a Pearl; poet and researcher Awad Al-Darmaki, whose credits include Dinosaurs do not know how to drive a Cadillac; storyteller and novelist Fatima Al Mazrouei, author of Acute Angle and many other novels; Ahmed Al Jasmi, star of many major Emirati and Gulf plays, among others.
Distinguished writers
Algerian writers Ahlam Mosteghanemi, recipient of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 1998, and author of Zakirat el Jassad (The Bridges of Constantine); Waciny Laredj, recipient of the 2007 Sheikh Zayed
Book Award for Literature and author of Harisat al-Dhilal, and academic and critic Abdul Qadir Faydouh, member of the international association for semiotic studies, will be among the distinguished writers at SIBF 2021.
Other noted writers include Youssef Al Qaid, whose novel War in the Land of Egypt is number four on the list of Arab Writers Union’s top 100 Arab novels and Jalal Barjas, winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) 2020.