A group of international writers meet at the "Sharjah International Book Fair"

The Sharjah International Book Fair, in its 40th session, organized by the Sharjah Book Authority from November 3-13 at the Expo Center Sharjah, brings together a group of international writers and writers, led by the Tanzanian writer and novelist Abdul Razzaq Garnah, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature for the year 2021. .

Through 440 activities, dialogue events and literary seminars, the exhibition opens a deep knowledge and cultural dialogue between the Arab cultural scene and its counterparts in various countries of the world.

Among the most prominent figures participating in the exhibition from the United States is writer Chris Gardner, an entrepreneur, an international best-selling author, and a multi-award winning film producer, whose novel “The Pursuit of Happiness” has been translated into more than 40 languages, including Arabic, It was made into a movie starring American actor Will Smith and was nominated for Academy Awards, and won several film awards.

Participating in the exhibition program is the young girl Yitanjali Rao, a young inventor, innovative scientist and creative author supporting STEM, the first young girl to appear in Time magazine in 2020 as "Child of the Year", and author of the book "The Young Man's Guide" Innovator in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

The exhibition will host the American novelist and writer Kathleen Altrim, author of the novel "A Crime Punishable by the Death Penalty" and who worked as a journalist for the US National Radio Program;

The exhibition also hosts Michael Andrelli, a bestselling author and publisher who has been ranked in the Amazon's Top 100 books, with more than 4 million copies sold worldwide.

She joins the American writer Tosca Lee, the New York Times bestseller, who has published seven novels, including "One Light" and "The Legend of Sheba: The Rise of a Queen", and has won several awards, and her works have been translated into 17 languages.

American writer Daniel Mallory, better known as A.J. Finn, author of the best-selling novel "The Woman in the Window" made into a major movie starring Amy Adams;

Also joining fellow countryman John F.

Petrosley, a writer, experimental social psychologist and professor of psychology at Wake Forest University, will be at the fair.

From Canada, Lebanese writer, activist and speaker Najwa Thebian will participate in the exhibition’s cultural program, along with Canadian writer K.J. Howe, author of the best-selling “The Broker of Freedom” series, which has received international popularity and won several awards.

The United Kingdom, Ireland, France and Italy represent the diversity of Europe’s literary culture,

and this year’s edition of the exhibition hosts the British-Uganda writer Jennifer Nansuboga Makumbi, the novelist and short story writer who received the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, author of “The First Woman” and “Kinto”. ; She is joined from the United Kingdom by Karen Millie James, an entrepreneur, novelist and author of Shadows Behind Her Smile and Where the Darkness is.

UK guests also include Rabena Khan, writer, politician, private consultant and broadcaster, author of My Pink Hair Under This Veil;

as well as writer Candice Carty Williams, author of the bestselling "The Queen, the Empress, Anya" and "The People's Man";

along with writer Mihir Bose, award-winning journalist, broadcaster, and author of The Nine Waves;

Along with writer B.

Verse.

Paris, author of Behind Closed Doors, The Meltdown, and other bestsellers.

From the Republic of Ireland, Alan Grivan, who discusses his two most popular novels, The Kindness of Psychopaths and Better Admittance, shares;

From Spain, Francesc Miralles is participating, and is the author of a number of best-selling inspiring books, including: "Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Happy Life and Long Life."

From France, this year’s edition will host Saad Bouri, founder of “De Jasman” publishing house, and author of a collection of traditional tales in Arabic and French entitled “The Fox and the Hyena,” and “The Wolf, the Lion and the Fox.”

In addition to the writer Hans Lemmon, a poet, playwright, novelist, lecturer, and author of the play The Battle of Hernani;

Alongside the French writer Isabelle Lemarit, she is a pianist, film director, translator, photographer, musicologist, and author of Cuba and its Music.

Participating from France is Mohamed Moleshul, better known as Yasmina Khadra, who has written more than 20 novels and his works have been translated into 52 languages, and have been converted into films and plays, the latest of which is the movie “The Assault” on the “Netflix” platform.

The exhibition welcomes the two guests who represent Italy, the writer Lisa Ginsburg, the author of a number of novels, including “Dear Peace”;

In addition to the award-winning novelist Donatella di Petrantonio, author of "L'Arminota" and "Southern Village", among others.

Pioneers of literature from the African continent and Russia,

entrepreneur, speaker and writer Swadee Martin, author of “Where Beauty Blooms, I Am With You,” is a guest at the exhibition;

Also participating from Kenya is the novelist and academic Peter Kimani, who has published three novels, including "The Jacaranda Dance" and is considered one of the most important writers of his generation;

And writer Yvonne Adiambo Auer, recipient of the 2003 Kane Prize for African Writing, which reviews East Africa's literary experience through her latest novel, The Dragonfly Sea.

Among the literary figures participating in the exhibition, Russian Dr. and academic Vitaly Naumkin, who is the author of more than 600 publications, and has been the first political advisor to the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria since 2016.

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