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maltatoday | SUNDAY • 19 SEPTEMBER 2021 7 BOOKS Malta Book Festival 42 exhibitors are participating in this year's edition includ- ing Malta's leading publishers, bookshops, cultural institutes, NGOs, public entities and self-published authors, each of whom will be bringing their newest titles to the 2021 Malta Book Festival. Most have an es- tablished online presence facil- itating online book purchasing. Agenda Bookshop (Miller) Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat BDL Bookends (Miller) ĊAK - Reliġjon u Ħajja Carmen J. Schembri Creative Europe Desk Malta Daniel Schembri Dar tal-Pubblikazzjoni QUM Deer Publications Dunstan Hamilton Ede Books / Kixott Faraxa Publishing Fondazzjoni Sagħtar French Embassy Friends of the National Ar- chives of Malta German-Maltese Circle / UOM - Department of Ger- man Għaqda tal-Malti - Università Heritage Malta Publish- ing/L-Akkademja tal-Malti Horizons Inizjamed Istituto Italiano di Cultura La Valletta Kite Group Kiwi Publications Midsea/Klabb Kotba Maltin Midsea/Klabb Kotba Maltin Bargains Lara Bezzina Librerija Preca Malta Libraries Malta University Press Mario Saliba Marvellous Malta Matthew Schembri Mellieha Local Council Merlin Library Merlin Publishers Merlin Publishers (backlist stand) Narcy Calamatta Paul Fenech Gonzi Peter Calamatta SKS Publishers Teatru Malta Wirt iż-Żejtun The 2021 Malta Book Festi- val runs from Wednesday 3 to Sunday 7 November between 9 am and 9 pm. For more information visit the Malta Book Festival Facebook page and ktieb.org.mt. Exhibitors raising the profile of poetry in Malta and honour the best po- etry written in Maltese. On Fri- day 5 November at 7 pm. NEW MALTESE WRITING IN ENGLISH On Friday 5 November at 5:30 pm Peter Owen Publish- ers are launching The Exodus of the Storks, the first english translation of Walid Nabhan's L-Eżodu taċ-Ċikonji (2013). Managing Director at Peter Owen Publishers Nick Kent will be presenting Albert Gatt's translation of the 2017 Euro- pean Union Prize for Litera- ture winning novel together with the author Walid Nabhan. Book your seat on ktieb.org.mt. On Saturday 6 November at 5:00 pm, London-based Praspar Press will be present- ing two new publications of Maltese literature in English and English translation: Scin- tillas: New Maltese Writing - an anthology of contemporary Maltese fiction, poetry and essays; and What Will it Take for Me to Leave, the upcoming translation of short stories by Loranne Vella.