{"id":509,"date":"2014-05-04T13:48:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T13:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/?p=509"},"modified":"2015-04-27T13:49:10","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T13:49:10","slug":"from-japanese-heritage-to-sudanese-and-turkish-stories-of-crimepunishment-at-st-martin-book-fair-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/2014\/05\/04\/from-japanese-heritage-to-sudanese-and-turkish-stories-of-crimepunishment-at-st-martin-book-fair-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"From Japanese heritage to Sudanese and Turkish stories of \u2018Crime&Punishment\u2019 at St. Martin Book Fair 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

GREAT BAY\/MARIGOT, St. Martin (May 4, 2014)<\/strong>\u2014<\/span>The St. Martin Book Fair, with its classic literary teaser theme of \u201cCrime&Punishment,\u201d is geared for its 12th<\/span> annual edition on June 5 -7, 2014, said Jacqueline Sample, president of House of Nehesi Publishers (HNP).<\/p>\n

\u201cTurkey, South Sudan, Puerto Rico, St. Martin, are some of the places that writers will be coming from; meeting with St. Martin people and our visitors; exchanging exciting books; visiting schools; conducting free workshops; and giving live multilingual literary readings,\u201d said Sample.<\/p>\n

\u201cGarrett\u00a0Hongo, the much in-demand US poet and\u00a0Pulitzer Prize finalist,\u00a0will be here. Professor Hongo\u2019s Japanese and Hawaiian heritages make up only part of what we\u2019ll experience from him and his books on his first Caribbean trip,\u201d said Shujah Reiph, book fair coordinator and Conscious Lyrics (CLF) president.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrancis Bok, from South Sudan is coming with his book,\u00a0Escape from Slavery.<\/span> In his autobiography this dignified gentleman tells about how he was kidnapped as a child, on the way to the food market for his mother, and forced into slavery for ten years. Today he is a leading abolitionist against slavery and \u2018child soldier\u2019 kidnappings,\u201d said Reiph following Saturday\u2019s Book Fair Committee meeting.<\/p>\n

\u201cEce Temelkuran, an exciting novelist of 12 books is heading our way. She\u2019s one of Turkey\u2019s \u2018most read political columnists.\u2019 Her columns appear in international media such as\u00a0The Guardian<\/span> and\u00a0Le Monde Diplomatique<\/span>. Temelkuran, who delivered the 4th <\/span>Freedom Lecture in Amsterdam, has\u00a0seen the blood on the ground from the political murder of a fellow journalist and has been fired from the\u00a0Haberturk <\/span>newspaper for reporting on what this brave writer calls\u00a0\u2018the prime minister\u2019s war on journalists, and \u2026 on the rights of the Kurdish people\u2019,\u201d said Reiph.<\/p>\n

The St. Martin Book Fair is organized by CLF and HNP in collaboration with its strategic partner the St. Maarten Tourist Bureau and with the University of St. Martin (USM).<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the next few weeks, look out for the names of more heavyweight authors and upcoming writers heading for the St. Martin Book Fair, \u2018A book fair for the entire family\u2019,\u201d said Reiph.<\/p>\n

Talking about family, with the second carnival season just over, rest up the kiddies because \u201cOn Saturday, June 7, which is the main book fair day at USM, the annual Children\u2019s Room will fit the festival\u2019s theme as well. The Children\u2019s Room organizer plans to ask parents to have each child come dressed as the child\u2019s favorite super hero or heroine,\u201d said Reiph.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re also encouraging contributors and patrons of the nation\u2019s arts to join us in building up the literary festival on the Friendly Island. In describing the exciting sprouting of book fairs in the Caribbean region,\u00a0Caribbean Beat<\/span> magazine recently wrote that, \u2018the St. Martin Book Fair is international and multilingual to the core.\u2019 Over 16 book fairs are held in the region, and most of them are less than 10 years old,\u201d said Sample.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Francis Bok, author of\u00a0Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Francis Bok, author of\u00a0Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Francis Bok, author of\u00a0Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GREAT BAY\/MARIGOT, St. Martin (May 4, 2014)\u2014The St. Martin Book Fair, with its classic literary teaser theme of \u201cCrime&Punishment,\u201d is geared for its 12th annual edition on June 5 -7, 2014, said Jacqueline Sample, president of House of Nehesi Publishers (HNP). \u201cTurkey, South Sudan, Puerto Rico, St. Martin, are some of the places that writers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-fair-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}