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The best #worldliterature you have never heard of: one country at a time from A to Z. 📚🌎🌍🌏
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If you have read Zadie Smith, you should read Xochitl Gonzalez. If you have not read Zadie Smith, we are very disappointed in you.

Its #ENGUSA in the World Literature Cup. #BoycottQatar2022
https://t.co/KQavLXwqK7

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If you want to #BoycottQatar22 but hate missing out on the festival of world football? Try world literature instead. We will highlight great novels from around the world throughout the #worldcup. We start in Trinidad & Tobago...
https://t.co/ZobsvYqFLl

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#covidbookclub

[Thomas Coombes (he/him) @the_hope_guy]

dunno about you but Im feeling the need for a good novel to take me someplace else mentally. So here are five uplifting novels from my somewhat defunct @WorldRevBooks project that will take your mind off #Covid_19 for a while. thoughts and other ideas welcome.

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[Shiromi @blimundaseyes]

Please, anyone who's read my book and liked it, please can you vote for Plastic Emotions. You've got less than a week. Am counting on you. 🤞🏾🧡🙏🏽

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@teaspressaz Im looking for a novel from Kazakhstan for my “book from every country” project. Any tips? I was thinking of Olzhas Suleimenov but cant find anywhere to buy his books online.

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Brilliant initiative: you can vote for the alternative literature prize, from a longlist including Maryse Condé, Zadie Smith and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie!

https://t.co/H8gt6v9GG0

[Brant Public Library @brantlibrary]

One week left to vote for The New Academy Best Literature Prize 2018 (aka the alternative Nobel Prize). Tell the world who you think 2018's best author was (I voted for Canadian Kim Thuy): https://t.co/H32TQ5rBza

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African Writers Nominated for Alternative Nobel Prize https://t.co/FACofC0De8 #Africa #Nigeria

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So when #ENG arrive for their "Appointment in Samara" against #SWE tonight, having dodged the game of death against #BRA in Kazan (which #BEL showed wasn't so deadly after all), they may just find the end of their #WorldCup2018 journey waiting for them...

#SWEENG #ENGSWE

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Some literary musings on England's #WorldCup chances.

England play Sweden play today in the Russian city of Samara (#ENGSWE) . They avoided the deadly side of the draw, and a fixture with Brazil in Kazan, by losing to Belgium in the group, to set up an easy ride to the final...

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Death tells the man that his gesture that morning had been one of surprise to see the man in Baghdad, because he had an appointment with him in Samarra that evening....

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Poetic, poignant and burning with a quiet rage against injustice, @keimiller's Augustown proudly follows a long tradition of Caribbean tales of resistance https://t.co/ev5ZdeehA1

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Life from the perspective of the shop security guard, and a sardonic appraisal of European society and the origins of migration politics. All in this original novel from exciting French-Ivorian writer Gauz. https://t.co/EmtAU3ZAgr

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How does joining the army affect teenage women and girls? This unique novel from Israel gives a beautiful answer. https://t.co/Shxmmq2agl

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If you have never read Colm Toibin - Ireland's finest living writer - then you need to a run to a bookshop now. Go now. https://t.co/qrM3AMBWJj

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Rejoice! The @FTLifeArts summer book selection is out, including its unparalleledselection of fiction in translation. Gael Faye’s Small Country tops my list #summerreads
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Excited to see Zadie Smith, one of the great writers of our generation, talk this weekend @QPBookfest

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This is not just an important piece of history: it is beautiful radio: Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings dramatised for the first time @bbcradio4 https://t.co/UJlJISOt4J

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@DarfPublishers 2. In The United States of Africa by Abdourahman Waberi  (#Djibouti) - what if the refugees were from Europe, seeking asylum in Africa?

#WorldRefugeeDay2018 #WRD2018 @UnivNebPress https://t.co/SFjg4jNHm7

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#WorldRefugeeDay book thread: novels from around the world you should read to empathise with the experience of people on the move....

1. African Titanics, by Abu Bakr Khaal, a #mustread on the Med from #Eritrea @DarfPublishers https://t.co/LJwLAzDtpY