Formation of the Gibraltar National Book Council
Exciting news coming from Gibraltar. The Gibraltar Government has just formed a national book council. The council intends to become a focal point in Gibraltar for all book and literature related activity. Its aim is to encourage writing and reading as well as to support writers, illustrators, and publishers, while working to promote Gibraltarian literature locally and internationally and offering advice to international academics interested in Gibraltarian writing, language and culture. The Council will be supported by the Ministry of Culture, which will provide the Secretariat, and by Gibraltar Cultural Services and its CEO Seamus Byrne.
The council’s seven members are the Gibraltarian Minister of Culture Professor John Cortes, the poet and journalist Giordano Durante, the English school teacher Melissa Bosano, the writer and columnist Jonathan Pizarro, the lawyer and University of Cambridge academic Dr Jamie Trinidad, Gibraltar Cultural Services Development Director Davina Barbara and the writer M. G. Sanchez, a member of ViEW.
A website for the council is currently under construction and should be up and running soon. For more details about the council, see this press release in dual language format (English and Spanish):
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