Following the Al-Rodhan partnership’s seed funding, the British Academy now carries this nonfiction prize forward.
Writers’ House of Georgia, British Library, Words Without Borders Announce Festival
This digital literary festival’s February 25 to 28 dates reflect Georgia’s annexation by and independence from the Soviet Union.
The UK’s £25,000 Al-Rodhan Prize Goes to Hazel Carby for ‘Imperial Intimacies’
The daughter of a Welsh mother and Jamaican father, Hazel Carby wins the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for her treatment of her family’s story.
MFest at the British Library: ‘Bringing Muslims and Non-Muslims Together’
Called MFest, a three-day program at the British Library in late April looks at the range, evocations, and implications of Muslim cultural diversity and literature at the British Library.
British Library: Digitizing 200 Years of Early Bengali Books
From The Times of India: ‘Not available elsewhere in the world,’ two centuries of the British Library’s Bengali collection is being made available free.
Holiday Whodunnits for Book Lovers: The British Library’s Crime Classics
A hit two holiday seasons ago has spawned a cozy cottage industry in a vaunted setting: The British Library is ready to stuff your stockings with crime.
British Libraries Bid on Literary Treasures
In the UK this week, both Oxford University and the British Library had their eyes (and hands) set on expensive relics of the past.