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'An Owl, a Garden and the Writer,' About Iranian Novelist Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, Debuts Trailer

Sara Dolatabadi’s film has its world premiere as part of the Burning Lights Competition of Visions du Réel. It previously won the Works in Progress Post-Production Development Award at Karlovy Vary Film Festival. ....

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France's Biennial Salon du Livre Africain Grows in Its Second Edition

The second iteration of the Salon de Livre Africain du Paris featured some 60 publishers from France and 11 markets in Africa. ....

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A Work About the 'Ostarbeiter' Wins the 50,000-Franc Jan Michalski Prize

The Jan Michalski Prize for Literature goes to human-rights organization Memorial International for a book about victims of Nazi forced labor ....

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Switzerland's 2020 Jan Michalski Prize Goes to Mia Couto

The jury has praised the “exceptional quality of the writing, which subtly mixes orality and narrative, letters, tales, fables, dreams, and beliefs that are at the heart of a historical reality that of Mozambique in the late 19th century as it grapples with Portuguese colonization.
“The author excels at portraying with great empathy characters faced with the inhumanity of war, offering them an epic inspiration out of the lush natural world of Africa.”
The French edition translated by Elisabeth Monteiro Rodrigues
In winning the award, Couto is the recipient of 50,000 Swiss francs (US$56,222) and a pair of singular sculptures by the Nigerian artist Alimi Adewale, and made of ekki wood at 18 inches in height. ....

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