Archive for March, 2010
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
Anna Ascolies and Marc de Gouvenain attended the 30th edition of the Paris Book Fair (26-31 March 2010), representing Pontas as, for the first time, a rights center was opened. The Salon du Livre is the world’s largest French-language book-related event, a six-day fair that attracts about 200,000 people each year, ...
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
Mornings in Jenin is a heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel that could do for Palestine what The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini did for Afghanistan. Pontas represents Palestinian-American author Susan Abulhawa worldwide and is also developing a film adaptation, as was recently informed through Screen Daily. Just some weeks ago the ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
On the 21st of January 2010, Marc de Gouvenain was awarded the badge of Knight First Class of the Swedish Order of the Polar Star.
The ceremony took place at the Swedish ambassador’s residency in Paris, where on behalf of his Majesty Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden, Mr. Per ...
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Saturday, March 6th, 2010
The Abu Dhabi International Book Fair took place from 2-7 March 2010 to bring together over 823 exhibitors from more than 63 countries from across the world. Besides the publishing business going on, the fair organised a cultural programme with more than 150 workshops and readings with international authors and ...
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