Of the 412 vendors at the fair, only five are specialized in English-language titles, but they are the most in-demand. The fair, organized by the al-Mada Foundation for Media, Culture and Arts ...

In 2020, however, several forces came together — including the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement — to push her to submit her book proposal to publishers.

Every year on April 2, the world comes together to celebrate International Children’s Book Day. From the fables and fairies that shaped our childhood imagination, to the heroes and warriors who ...

In 2019 an Irish language teacher was appointed in Maghaberry after legal action was threatened. The Irish language is currently taught and spoken on the jail’s Roe House, where the majority of ...

Amharic Amharic, spoken by over 32 million people, is Ethiopia’s official language. It is the second most spoken Semitic language after Arabic. Amharic uses the unique Ge’ez script.

Existence in the African country depicted in Oromay by Baalu Girma, translated from Amharic by David DeGusta and Mesfin Felleke Yirgu (MacLehose Press, 388pp, £20) offers no such whimsical choices.

When publisher Karen Pavlicin began receiving requests for Spanish-language children’s books from military family support centers, librarians and educators, she began looking for ways to fill ...

Some in the book world worry as they see sales in English accelerate, especially among the young. “We neglect our language,” said Peter Hoomans, a bookseller at Scheltema, in Amsterdam.

Amharic, the language of Ethiopia, is written with a script in which each character stands for a consonant+vowel syllable. These kids are singing a song to help them learn the 34 characters from ...

Children at a school in Safo, Mali, on April 4 read books in their native Bambara with stories that were generated with the use of artificial intelligence. (Carmen Yasmine Abd Ali for The ...