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Lebanese-Canadian Author Rawi Hage’s Winding Road to Success

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Lebanese-Canadian author Rawi Hage, a featured speaker at this year’s Abu Dhabi Book Fair, discusses his long, transcontinental path to becoming a novelist.

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Save the Trees: Print Books on Straw Rather than Paper

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Yann Martel and Alice Munro are working with Canopy, an environmental charity, to highlight forest-saving Second Harvest paper made from straw rather than trees.

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Behold, the Biblio-Mat: Collect All 112 Million Titles!

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Canadian bookshop The Monkey’s Paw has unveiled the Biblio-Mat, a random book dispenser built by Craig Small as an artful alternative to sidewalk discount bins.

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New Women-Only Literary Prizes Created in Australia and Canada

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Women-only literary prizes have been created in both Canada and Australia to help balance the attention given to work by male authors vs. female authors.

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Atwood Collaborates on Serialized Zombie Novel for Wattpad

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Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman will cowrite a serialized new zombie novel for e-publisher Wattpad. The first three chapters are already available.

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New Org for Top Int’l Book Fests Aims to Help Source Funds

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From Jaipur to Melbourne to Edinburgh, Word Alliance aims to help top international book festivals lobby for government funding and to spread best practices.

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iDreambooks Promises “Rotten Tomatoes-like” Site for Books

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New book discovery site iDreambooks.com promises to collate reviews from reputable sources, thus helping readers make the better book buying decisions.

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3 Reasons HarperCollins 360 Took So Long to Start

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Money, marketing and management all likely prevented HarperCollins from offering all its English titles to global readers at once, but that’s finally changed.

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Canadian YA Author Deborah Ellis on Telling Stories and Giving Back

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Canadian YA author Deborah Ellis writes books about young people who bravely confront dangerous situations and donates her royalties to help them.

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A Novel Written on Leap Day, Published on World Book Day

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The novel ‘Leap’ was written by 29 writers, split between London, Delhi, Kuala Lumpur and Vancouver, working with more than 10 editors, and published March 1.

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