by oes_news | May 4, 2017 | Book Fair News, BookFair 2017, News, News 2017
GREAT BAY, St. Martin (May 4, 2017)—The St. Maarten Carnival has just ended but music is still in the Caribbean air. And music will be critically highlighted at the St. Martin Book Fair, June 1 – 3, 2017, said Shujah Reiph, the literary festival director. “The music...
by oes_news | Apr 19, 2017 | Book Fair News, BookFair 2017, News 2017
THE SAVANNA, St. Martin (April 18, 2017)—The 15th edition of the annual St. Martin Book Fair will take place at new venues throughout the island from June 1 – 3, 2017, said Shujah Reiph, director of the literary festival. The opening ceremony at Cité Scolaire Robert...
by oes_news | Apr 17, 2017 | Book Fair News, BookFair 2017, News, News 2017
MARIGOT, St. Martin (April 12, 2017)—The Association of Caribbean Writers (ACW) awarded its Grand Literature Prize to novelist Rita Indiana at the closing ceremony of the Caribbean Writers Congress (CWC) in Guadeloupe on April 8, 2017. The winning novel, La mucama de...
by oes_news | Feb 1, 2017 | Book Fair News, BookFair 2017, News 2017
Caribbean Beat Bookshelf (Jan/Feb 2017) | Book Reviews by Shivanee Ramlochan Columbus, the Moor Review by Natalio...
by oes_news | Jan 4, 2017 | Book Fair News, BookFair 2017, News, News 2017
GREAT BAY, St. Martin (January 4, 2017)—It is not often that a politician is also a major, continuing patron of the cultural arts in St. Martin. Louis Constant Fleming is one of the very few exceptions among this rare grouping in St. Martin, North and South. For the...
by oes_news | May 29, 2016 | Book Fair News, BookFair 2016, News 2016
Great Bay, St. Martin (May 29, 2016)—Experts from the Forensics Department of the St. Maarten Police and popular Canadian science fiction writer Nalo Hopkinson may not know each other yet but their worlds are about to collide on the Friendly Island. “Collide is...
by oes_news | May 13, 2016 | Book Fair News, BookFair 2016, News 2016
GREAT BAY, St. Martin (May 10, 2016)—How can the life of a writer, his or her books, and other facets of his or her life be made into an exciting movie? Surinamese film director Ida Does has already answered that question. Poetry is an island is a feature film about...
by oes_news | May 1, 2016 | Book Fair News, BookFair 2016, News 2016
by Ralph Cantave GREAT BAY, St. Martin (May 1, 2016)—The Peridot Foundation will contribute to the sponsorship of the 14th annual St. Martin Book Fair, June 2 – 4, 2016, said the Hon. drs. Gracita Arrindell. This is the third time that Peridot has teamed up with the...
by oes_news | Apr 8, 2016 | Book Fair News, BookFair 2016, News, News 2016
GREAT BAY – Dynamic speaker and leading space scientist Dr. Camille Wardrop Alleyne will deliver the keynote address of the St. Martin Book Fair, June 2 – 4, 2016, said Shujah Reiph, book fair coordinator. “The Science of It” is the theme of the literary...
by oes_news | Mar 30, 2016 | Book Fair News, BookFair 2016, News 2016
GREAT BAY, St. Martin (March 30, 2016)—The Virgin Islands Public Library has received a gift pack of books published in St. Martin as a promotion of the St. Martin Book Fair and of book publishing and literary readings in the Caribbean, said Jacqueline Sample,...
