{"id":10069,"date":"2011-02-06T03:34:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T10:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=10069"},"modified":"2011-02-14T23:44:31","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T06:44:31","slug":"25th-jerusalem-international-book-fair-february-20-25-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=10069","title":{"rendered":"25th Jerusalem International Book Fair – February 20 – 25, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Books, books, and more books \u2013 reading books, talking about books and walking through stalls and stalls of books – the 25th Jerusalem International Book Fair has it all from February 20 \u2013 25, 2011 at the Jerusalem International Convention Center (ICC \u2013 Binyaney HaUma). Zev Birger is the Chairman and Managing Director of this leading book fairs, which has taken place biennially since 1963, bringing hundreds of editors, publishers, agents, writers and readers to Jerusalem. Entrance to the fair and most events is free and open to the public.\u00a0Follow this link <\/a>to view\u00a0the full program, with events in English highlighted.<\/p>\n

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Ian McEwan\/Photo courtesy of PR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

English author Ian McEwan will be awarded the Jerusalem Prize, Israel\u2019s highest literary honor for foreign writers, in a ceremony which will take place on February 20, 2011. Awarded to a writer whose work best expresses and promotes the idea of \u201cfreedom of the individual in society,\u201d previous winners include: Bertrand Russell (1963), Simon de Beauvoir (1975), Milan Kundera (1985), Haruki Murakami (2009) and others. Chairman of the Jerusalem Prize Jury for 2011 is Professor Menahem Ben Sasson, President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

From the jury\u2019s decision:
\n”McEwan\u2019s protagonists struggle for their right to give personal expression to their ideas, and to live according to those ideas in an environment of political and social turmoil. His obvious affection for them, and the compelling manner in which he describes their struggle, make him one of the most important writers of our time. His books have been translated into many languages and have enjoyed world-wide success \u2212 particularly in Israel, where he is one of the most widely-read of foreign authors.<\/em><\/p>\n

For his love of people and concern for their right to self-realization, and in recognition of his artistic achievements, we have decided to award Ian McEwan the Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Ian McEwan is the author of several critically acclaimed, award-winning novels, including: the Whitbread Novel Award (1987) and the Prix F\u00e9mina Etranger (1993) for The Child in Time; the Man Booker Prize for Fiction for Amsterdam in 1998; WH Smith Literary Award (2002), National Book Critics’ Circle Fiction Award (2003), Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction (2003), and the Santiago Prize for the European Novel (2004) for Atonement \u2013 which was adapted as a film in 2007, directed by Joe Wright. He was awarded a CBE in 2000. His most recent novel is Solar (2010).<\/p>\n

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Antoine Gallimard\/Photo courtesy of PR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This year\u2019s Fair will celebrate 100 years to \u00c9ditions Gallimard, with Antoine Gallimard and Pierre Assouline (biographer of the publishing group\u2019s founder Gaston Gallimard) in attendance.<\/p>\n

Program highlights include book presentations, conversations with authors at the literary caf\u00e9, story hour for children Monday \u2013 Thursday at 16:00 (in Hebrew), and two symposiums:\u00a0 Conflict Resolution: Politics & Literary Representation and E-Publishing and its Cultural Aspect.<\/p>\n

The 25th\u00a0 Jerusalem International Book Fair
\nICC \u2013 Jerusalem International Convention Center, 1 Zalman Shazar Street, Jerusalem
\nInformation: 02-5314600
\nOpening Hours: February 20 from 18:00 \u2013 21:00; February 21 \u2013 24 from 10:00 \u2013 20:00, February 25 from 10:00 \u2013 13:00.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Books, books, and more books \u2013 reading books, talking about books and walking through stalls and stalls of books – the 25th Jerusalem International Book Fair has it all from February 20 \u2013 25, 2011 at the Jerusalem International Convention Center (ICC \u2013 Binyaney HaUma). Zev Birger is the Chairman and Managing Director of this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}