The Ibn Rushd Fund for Freedom of Thought has awarded former ICORN Guest Writer Sihem Bensedrine its 13th annual prize, which she will receive during a ceremony in Berlin on 25 November. The award recognizes individuals who ‘have rendered outstanding contributions to Freedom of Thought in the Arabic World.’
Last week, Easterine Kire Iralu's novel A Terrible Matriarchy was published in German under the title Tage des Zorns (Days of Rage). The publication is a result of the cooperation between Litprom, Shahrazad's partner in Frankfurt, and the publishing house Brandes und Apsel.
1.-3. June, ICORN's 2010 General Assembly will take place in Frankfurt. At the same time, Shahrazad's Frankfurt co-organiser, Litprom, celebrates its 30 year anniversary with a series of international reading encounters, featuring writers Fatima Mernissi, Uday Prakash, Ilija Trojanow, Easterine Iralu, Herrad Schenk, Horacio Castellanos Moya, Carmen Francesca Banciu, Faraj Bayrakdar, Mansur Rajih, Pegah Ahmadi, and Carlos Aguilera.
We are happy to present an unexpected outcome of our creative writing workshops in Frankfurt: The participants of the Spanish groups decided to continue their teamwork and founded their own circle of writers: Dámaso y los demás.
Argentina is Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair this year, and there are many events scheduled for this occasion. One of the first ones this year was the reading of the Argentinian author Pablo Ramos in the series Monday Monday in Frankfurt on the last Monday of February.
Pablo Ramos grew up in greater Buenos Aires, Argentina, the country which is this year's Guest of Honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair. He is a musician and a writer, and has won important Latin American literature awards with his poems and stories. His first novel was "The Origin of Sadness" ("El origin de la tristeza"/"Der Ursprung der Traurigkeit").
