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April 2010 Literary Events

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. -- Andre Gide

World

International Children's Book Day
April 2
http://www.ibby.org/index.php?id=269

Since 1967, on or around Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday, 2 April, International Children’s Book Day (ICBD) is celebrated to inspire a love of reading and to call attention to children’s books.

Argentina

Buenos Aires International Book Fair
April 22-May 10
Buenos Aires
http://www.el-libro.org.ar/

Canada

Frye Festival
April 19-25
Moncton, New Brunswick
http://www.frye.ca/content/eng/home

The mission of the Frye Festival is to foster the discovery and enjoyment of reading and writing by bringing together local, national and international authors with audiences of all ages, creating an annual bilingual celebration of words.

England

The London Book Fair
April 19-21
Earls Court, London
http://www.londonbookfair.co.uk/

Scarborough Literature Festival (The Long Weekend…)
April 15-18
Scarborough, North Yorkshire
http://www.scarboroughliteraturefestival.co.uk/

Hexham Book Festival
April 23-May 2
Queens Hall, Hexham
http://www.hexhambookfestival.co.uk/home/

What links books about food, wine, landscape, crime, history, politics and poetry? They're all on offer at the fifth Hexham Book Festival featuring an outstanding line-up of award-winning writers, leading thinkers, controversial speakers and bon viveurs. Join historian and writer Philippa Gregory at Alnwick Castle on murder and betrayal in fifteenth century England; quaff a hundred wines with Guardian columnist Simon Hoggart; discover why writers love landscape with Margaret Drabble; expect wise words from veteran politician Shirley Williams and find a cure for love with poet Wendy Cope.

Hungary

17th International Book Festival Budapest
April 22-25
Budapest
http://www.bookfestival.hu/angol.html

International Book Festival Budapest held for the 17th time in 2010 is a recognized event of the international world of books, as one of the important professional and intellectual forums of the region.

Ireland

The 25th Cúirt International Festival of Literature
April 20-25
Galway
http://www.galwayartscentre.ie/cuirt/literature.html

United States

National Library Week
April 11-17
http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/pio/natlibraryweek/nlw.cfm

National Library Week is an annual celebration of the contributions of our nation's libraries and librarians. All types of libraries - school, public, academic and special - participate.

National Poetry Month
http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/41

Inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, National Poetry Month is now held every April, when publishers, booksellers, literary organizations, libraries, schools and poets around the country band together to celebrate poetry and its vital place in American culture. Thousands of businesses and non-profit organizations participate through readings, festivals, book displays, workshops, and other events.

Alabama

Alabama Book Festival
April 17
Montgomery
http://www.oldalabamatown.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=308:book-festival&catid=10:news&Itemid=20

The free public event is the state’s premier book festival — with more than 4,000 people converging in the capital city to meet with and hear from their favorite authors. The family-friendly event promotes reading and literacy to Alabamians of all ages and backgrounds.

Arizona

Northern Arizona Book Festival
April 17
Flagstaff
http://www.nazbookfest.com/new/

The purpose of the Northern Arizona Book Festival, Inc. (NABF) is to promote the union of literacy and the fine art of literature in a meaningful and relevant way to the people of Northern Arizona and the greater Southwest. In addition, NABF is committed to promoting literacy in Northern Arizona.

Arkansas

Arkansas Literary Festival
April 8-11
Little Rock
http://www.arkansasliteraryfestival.org/

The 2010 Arkansas Literary Festival to be held on the Central Arkansas Library System's Main campus and in multiple downtown Little Rock venues. The seventh annual festival is guaranteed to be a stimulating mix of authors, panels, special events, performances, workshops and more.

California

Saroyan Town Walk
Fresno
April 17
http://www.williamsaroyansociety.org/content/views-past-walks

You will learn about William Saroyan and his early years in Fresno and experience the sights and sounds of the area that he gave voice to in his works.

Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
April 24-25
UCLA Campus, Los Angeles
http://www.latimes.com/extras/festivalofbooks/

Colorado

The Association of Writers and Writing Programs Annual Conference
April 7-10
Denver
http://www.awpwriter.org/conference/2010awpconf.php

Connecticut

Connecticut Storytelling Festival
April 23-25
http://www.connstorycenter.org/festival.html

Florida

UCF Book Festival
April 16-17
UCF Arena, Orlando
http://education.ucf.edu/bookfest/

Join us for one of Florida’s premier literary events, featuring renowned national and local authors, book signings and sales, exhibits, book appraisals, and special children's activities.

Tampa-Hillsborough County Storytelling Festival
April 24
Tampa
http://www.tampastory.org/

Kansas

William Inge Theatre Festival
April 21-24
Independence
http://www.ingecenter.org/ingefestival.html

Our 2010 honoree will be Paula Vogel, Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist and inspiring teacher to many of America's most promising young Playwrights.

Kentucky

Southern Kentucky Book Fest
April 17
Sloan Convention Center, Bowling Green, Kentucky
http://www.sokybookfest.org/

The Southern Kentucky Book Fest is the state's largest literary event and is presented by WKU Libraries, Bowling Green Public Library, and Barnes and Noble Booksellers. Held annually during National Library Week, the Book Fest draws thousands of readers of all ages who welcome the occasion to meet their favorite authors.

Maryland

Bethesda Literary Festival
April 16-18
Bethesda
http://www.bethesda.org/specialevents/litfest/litfest.htm

The 11th annual Bethesda Literary Festival will feature novelists, journalists, children's events, a Night of Improv and more! All events are free and are held at various locations throughout downtown Bethesda.

Annapolis Book Festival
April 17
At the Key School, Annapolis
http://www.keyschool.net/key_community/festival09.asp

Scheduled for 10:00 am to 4:00 pm Saturday, April 17, 2010, the eighth annual Annapolis Book Festival will feature nationally renowned authors from a variety of fiction and non-fiction categories.

Kensington Celebrates the International Day of the Book
April 25
Kensington
http://members.verizon.net/~vze4nbyt/dob.html

This afternoon street festival celebrates the International Day of the Book with live music, author readings, open mic, activities for children and adults, storytellers, ...and books, books, books! Local authors, bookartists, publishers, booksellers, and literary groups line Howard Ave in Historic Old Town Kensington to show, sell, and discuss their works. All activities are free, rain or shine. Come celebrate with us!

Massachusetts

Newburyport Literary Festival
April 23-24
Newburyport
http://www.newburyportliteraryfestival.org/

Friday April 23th we will open the festival at the Firehouse Centre for the Arts.  The ceremony is followed by our Dinner with the Authors at Nicholson Hall. Saturday continues the celebration with a full day of activities from Coffee with the Poets to the closing ceremony this festival promises to have something for every reader.

Mississippi

The Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival
April 7-9
The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
http://www.usm.edu/bookfest/

We invite you to help us celebrate 43 years of promoting excellence in children's literature.

Missouri

Greater St. Louis Book Fair
April 29-May 2
St. Louis
http://www.stlouisbookfair.org/

Greater St. Louis Book Fair is one of the nation's oldest, largest and most popular charity book sales. For over 60 years, book lovers and collectors have enjoyed bargain prices on a diverse and quality selection of new, gently-used and rare books. Fair proceeds benefit local non-profit education and literacy programs.

New Mexico

19th Albuquerque Antiquarian Book Fair
April 2-3
Albuquerque
http://www.unm.edu/~alshal/aabf.htm

The 16th Annual Border Book Festival
April 8-11
Mesilla
http://www.borderbookfestival.org/

The Border Book Festival, Inc. (BBF) will take place the second weekend of April, April 8-11, 2010. We promise to bring you a grand literary experience.

New York

The Empire State Book Festival
April 9-10
Albany
http://empirestatebookfestival.wordpress.com/

This event will bring together authors, illustrators, librarians, storytellers, publishers and booklovers to celebrate the literary heritage of New York State. This event is free and open to the public. Please join us.

New York Antiquarian Book Fair
April 9-11
The Park Avenue Armory, New York City
http://www.sanfordsmith.com/show.php?show=bookfair

PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature
April 26-May 2
New York City
http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/1096

Join us for an exciting week-long celebration of books and writing from around the globe. A stellar line-up of emerging and established authors will take the stage in venues across New York City and several satellite locations from San Francisco to Washington DC.  Don’t miss this exciting cross-cultural literary exchange, featuring conversations, panels, performances, readings, a translation slam and an all-star Cabaret night!

Pennsylvania

York Book and Paper Fair
April 3
York
http://www.yorkbookandpaper.com/

Free Library Festival
April 17-18
Parkway Central Library, Philadelphia
http://libwww.freelibrary.org/bookfestival/

Now in its fourth year, the Free Library Festival is the Library's annual burst of ideas and inspiration! Well on its way to becoming a Philadelphia tradition, the Festival weekend is packed with free programming for all ages, including talks by bestselling authors, poetry readings, musical performances, tours of the Library's special collections, and programs and activities just for children. A fun, free way to spend the day, the Free Library Festival connects book lovers from throughout the mid-Atlantic region.

South Carolina

Clemson Literary Festival
April 1-3
Clemson University, Clemson
http://www.clemson.edu/caah/english/specialevents/literaryfestival/

The Clemson Literary Festival attracts book fans, authors and teachers alike, in a celebration of literature.

A[ugusta] Baker's Dozen - A Celebration of Stories Festival
Columbia
April 23-24
http://www.myrcpl.com/children/augusta-bakers-dozen

RCPL’s annual storytelling festival, cosponsored by the University of South Carolina School of Library and Information Science, brings to life the world of storytelling and children’s literature. The festival honors the works and achievements of nationally-known author and storyteller Augusta Baker, who moved to Columbia in 1980 and was appointed the Storyteller-in-Residence at USC.

Texas

The International Edible Book Festival
April 1
University of Texas’ Collections Deposit Library
http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~ebf/

The first International Edible Book Festival took place in 2000, inspired by art librarian and curator Judith Hoffberg (1934-2009). Since then it has been usually held on April Fool's Day--fitting for a tongue-in-cheek celebration of book and food cultures--in a number of countries.

North Texas Book Festival
April 16-17
Denton Civic Center, Denton
http://www.ntbf.org/

The North Texas Book Festival, Inc. is a 501(c)3 corporation that was organized in 2000 by a group of individuals, led by children's author Lynn Sheffield Simmons, to help school and public libraries and literacy programs in the North Texas area. Since its beginning, more than $45,000 in grants has been awarded to deserving programs.

Wisconsin

Fox Cities Book Festival
April 11-18
Appleton and elsewhere
http://www.foxcitiesbookfestival.org/

The Festival, which hosts and boasts events throughout the Fox Cities, will showcase nearly 50 authors and panelists who will participate in readings, panel discussions and book chats at a variety of venues throughout the eight-day span.

Read books. They are good for us. -- Natalie Goldberg

La Maison Gabrielle-Roy, 375 Deschambault Street, Saint-Boniface, Manitoba, Canada

La Maison Gabrielle-Roy, where the Canadian author lived from 1909 to 1937, is now a museum celebrating her life and work.

Gabrielle Roy’s childhood home is an important symbol which often finds its way in the great Franco-Canadian author’s works. Her books and its descriptions have allowed us to remain loyal to the house, and its era, during the restoration process; this house is the setting for Street of Riches. Gabrielle was born here and she lived here for close to 28 years; she spent her entire childhood here as well as the first years of her adult life. – from La Maison Gabrielle-Roy Website

(photograph from the Encyclopedia of French Cultural Heritage in North America)

Botswana Book List

Aiken, Bruce. The lions and elephants of the Chobe: Botswana’s untamed wilderness (1986)

Allison, Peter. Whatever you do, don’t run : true tales of a Botswana safari guide (2007)

Alverson, Marianne. Under African sun (1987)

Augustinus, Paul. Botswana: a brush with the wild (1991)

Campbell, Alec C. and Mike Main.  Guide to greater Gaborone: a historical guide to the region around Gaborone including Kanye, Lobatse, Mochudi and Molepolole (2003)

Campbell, Alec. The nature of Botswana: a guide to conservation and development (1990)

Dow, Unity. The heavens may fall (2007)

Dow, Unity. Juggling truths (2003)

Dutfield, Michael. A marriage of inconvenience: the persecution of Ruth and Seretse Khama (1990)

Galloway, Bret. Black papyrus (2003)

Head, Bessie. The cardinals with meditations and short stories (1977)

Head, Bessie. The collector of treasures, and other Botswana village tales (1977)

Head, Bessie. A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979

Head, Bessie. Maru (1971)

Head, Bessie.  A question of power (1974)

Head, Bessie.  Serowe: village of the rain-wind (African Writers Series, 220) (1981)

Head, Bessie. Tales of tenderness and power (1989)

Head, Bessie and Ngugi wa Thiong’o. To stir the heart (2007) (and Kenya)

Head, Bessie. When rain clouds gather: a novel (1968)

Head, Bessie. A woman alone: autobiographical writings (1990)

Jackson, Ashley. Botswana, 1939-1945: an African country at war (1999)

Johnson, Peter. Okavango: sea of land, land of water (1978)

Jourbet, Beverly.  Hunting with the moon: the lions of Savuti (1997)

Kat, Pieter W.  Prides: the lions of Moremi (2000)

Lanting, Frans. Okavango: Africa’s last eden (1993)

Main, Michael. Kalahari: life’s variety in dune and delta (1987)

Marshall, Lorna. The !Kung of Nyae Nyae (1976)

McCall Smith, Alexander. The full cupboard of life (2003)

McCall Smith, Alexander. The good husband of Zebra Drive (2007)

McCall Smith, Alexander.  The Kalahari typing school for men (2003)

McCall Smith, Alexander. Morality for beautiful girls (2001)

McCall Smith, Alexander.  The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (1998)

McCall Smith, Alexander.  Tears of the giraffe (2001)

McNutt, John, et al. Running wild: dispelling the myths of the African wild dog (1996)

Morton, Fred. Historical dictionary of Botswana (1996)

Owens, Mark James. Cry of the Kalahari (1984)

Patterson, Gareth.  Last of the free: an inspirational story of three young lions restored to the wild, and the man who risked his life to protect them (1994)

Patterson, Gareth.  With my soul amongst lions: a moving story of the struggle to protect the last Adamson lions  (1995)

Peters, Pauline E. Dividing the commons: politics, policy, and culture in Botswana (1994)

Rush, Norman.  Mating (1991)

Rush, Norman.  Mortals: a novel (2003)

Rush, Norman.  Whites: stories (1986)

Samatar, Abdi Ismail. An African miracle: state and class leadership and colonial legacy in Botswana development (1999)

Scholz, C. H. Fieldwork: a geologist’s memoir of the Kalahari (1997)

Scott, Robyn. Twenty chickens for a saddle: the story of an African childhood (2008)

Shostak, Marjorie. Nisa, the life and words of a !Kung woman (1981)

Sobott-Mogwe, Gaele. Colour me blue (1995)

Stanley, Michael. A carrion death (2008)

Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall. The harmless people (1959)

Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall. The old way: a story of the first people (2007)

Van der Post, Laurens. The heart of the hunter (1961)

Van der Post, Laurens. Lost world of the Kalahari (1958)

Williams, Susan. Colour bar: the triumph of Seretse Khama and his nation (2006)

Naulakha, Dummerston, Vermont

Anne Lawrence Guyon visits the Vermont home “where Kipling reared Mowgli."

With his study in the prow, kitchen in the stern, windows along the port side and staircases hugging its starboard wall, Naulakha (pronounced now-LAH-kuh) has been fully restored and contains nearly all original furnishings, including traces of Kipling’s Bombay birthplace and British parentage. – from “Where Kipling Reared Mowgli (in Vermont),” by Anne Lawrence Guyon, The New York Times

Related Website

Landmark Trust USA – Naulakha

Bloomsbury Archive, King’s College Cambridge, England

Alison Flood  reports on “a new archive of letters by the Bloomsbury group that is being opened to public viewing for the first time.”  The archive also includes “30 albums of photographs featuring key members of the group such as Forster and Strachey.”

The two collections belonged to the novelist Rosamond Lehmann and the diarist and writer Frances Partridge, once described by fellow group member Clive Bell as having 'the best legs in Bloomsbury'. Lehmann and Partridge became friends at Cambridge University, later getting to know the group of intellectuals that also included Woolf, EM Forster, Lytton Strachey and JM Keynes. – from “New Bloomsbury Archive Casts Revealing Light on Virginia Woolf’s Death,” by Alison Flood, The Guardian

Related Website

News and Events, University of Cambridge

Australia

David Vann visits the Australian outback, where Aborigines have “walked for 40,000 years.”

Imagine a beginning, when man and woman first named the world. A 'Songline' or 'Dreaming Track' in the Australian outback can still be walked, perhaps by the Arrernte or Pintupi or other Aboriginal peoples, and for them, it is nothing less than creation, the world sung into existence by naming all plants and animals and the landscape itself. Reaching back at least 40,000 years, a singer can find his or her way along the ancient path of one of the 'Ancestors' retracing a Lizard Dreaming, or a Kangaroo Dreaming, or a Rain-Maker Dreaming, refreshing existence and ‘singing up the land’. – from “The Aborigines Who’ve Walked for 40,000 Years,” by David Vann, The Guardian

Benin Book List

Alpern, Stanley B.  Amazons of Black Sparta : the women warriors of Dahomey (1998)

Bay, Edna G.  Wives of the Leopard: gender, politics, and culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey (1998)

Ben-Amos, Paula Girshick. Art, innovation, and politics in eighteenth-century Benin (1999)

Ben-Amos, Paula Girshick. The art of Benin (1995)

Caulfield, Annie.  Show me the magic: travels round Benin in a taxi (2003)

Chatwin, Bruce. The Viceroy of Ouidah (1980)

Decalo, Samuel. Historical dictionary of Benin (1995)

Hazoumé, Paul. Doguicimi: the first Dahomean novel (1937)

Eweka, Iro. Dawn to dusk: folk tales from Benin (1998)

Law, Robin. Ouidah: the social history of a West African slaving ‘port’ 1727-1892 (2004)

Mama, Raouf. Why monkeys live in trees and other stories from Benin (2006)

Okpewho, Isidore. Once upon a kingdom: myth, hegemony, and identity (1998)

Thompson, Robert Farris. Divine inspiration: from Benin to Bahia (1993)

London, England

Sebastian Faulks talks about his new book, A Week in December, on NPR’s Morning Edition.

Sebastian Faulks' 'A Week in December' is a seven-day tour of modern London written in Dickensian style. Charles Dickens' rich cast of 19th century characters dealt with class conflict, wealth, poverty and true love. Faulks' modern-day characters deal with terrorism, greed, the Internet and — because some things never change — true love. – from “Seven Days in Seven Lives: A Week in December,” NPR Website

England

Richard Lea interviews Tim Pears.

Since leaving school to pursue writing at 16, Tim Pears has steered a quietly defiant course, standing up for provincial life in the face of metropolitan self-importance and refusing his readers easy consolations. – from “Tim Pear’s ‘small acts of resistance,’” by Richard Lea, The Guardian

Angola Book List

Agualusa, José Eduardo. My father’s wives (2007)

Alberto, Eliseo. Caracol Beach (2000)

Antunes, Antonio Lobo. South of nowhere (1983)

Bender, Gerald J. Angola under the Portuguese: the myth and the reality (2004)

Black, Richard, compiler. Angola (1992) (World bibliographical series; v. 151)

Broadhead, Susan H. Historical dictionary of Angola (1992)

Chabal, Patrick and Nuno Vidal, editors. Angola: the weight of history (2008)

Davidson, Basil. In the eye of the storm (1975)

Guimarães, Fernando Andresen. The origins of the Angolan civil war: foreign intervention and domestic political conflict (1998)

Henderson, Lawrence W.  Angola: Five Centuries of Conflict (1979)

Hodges, Tony. Angola: the anatomy of an oil state (2003)

Jamba, Sousa. A lonely devil (1993)

Jamba, Sousa. Patriots (1990)

Kapuscinski, Ryszard.  Another day of life (Vintage) (1987)

Maier, Karl. Angola: Promises and lies (1996)

Mendes, Pedro Rosa.  Bay of Tigers: an odyssey through war-torn Angola (2003)

Moorhouse, Karin and Wei Cheng. No one can stop the rain: a chronicle of two foreign aid workers during the Angolan Civil War (2005)

Okuma, Thomas. Angola in ferment: the background and prospects of Angolan nationalism (1961)

Pepetela. Mayombe (1980)

Pepetela. The return of the water spirit (2002)

Pepetela. Yaka (1996)

Reed, Kristin. Crude existence: environment and the politics of oil in Northern Angola (2009)

Silverberg, Robert.  Lord of darkness (1983)

Stockwell, John. In search of enemies: a CIA story (1978)

Vieira, José Luandino.  Luuanda: short stores of Angola (1980)

Walker, John Frederick.  A certain curve of horn: the hundred-year quest for the giant sable antelope of Angola (2002)

Winslow, Philip C. Sowing the dragon's teeth: land mines and the global legacy of  war (1997)