The National Book Council is appealing directly to the Government and to the Prime Minister to ensure that […]

The winners of the 2020 Doreen Micallef National Poetry Contest were announced and read on the evening of […]

The 2020 Malta Book Festival, being held online for the first time, has officially opened this evening with […]

Following months of preparation, the 2020 Malta Book Festival – virtual edition kicks off Wednesday 11 November with […]

With just over a week to the start of the 2020 Malta Book Festival, featuring a varied events […]

The 2020 Malta Book Festival – virtual edition is now almost here. With around 60 events spread over […]

Among the international guests at the 2020 virtual edition of the Malta Book Festival, the National Book Council […]

The National Book Council is pleased to present the cultural programme for the 2020 Malta Book Festival, taking […]

The Malta Book Festival is an opportunity to develop the basic skills related to the appreciation of books […]

One of the events featuring Sir Salman Rushdie, this year’s special guest of the Malta Book Festival, is […]

The National Book Council is pleased to announce that Sir Salman Rushdie – one of the most celebrated […]

In view of the risks posed by hosting a mass event during the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Book […]

The National Book Council is pleased to release the official poster of the Malta Book Festival 2020, which […]

The National Book Council would like to announce the launch of a media scheme for prospective exhibitors of […]

The National Book Council (NBC) is proud to announce the dates of the Malta Book Festival 2020, which […]

After much consideration, it is with disappointment but with a sense of public spirit that we must announce […]

While thanking the Arts Council Malta for its valuable contribution towards the visibility of Maltese writing over the […]

The 2020 Campus Book Festival will be benefitting from a greater international presence over previous years. The Festival […]

The National Book Council is announcing the dates and the special guests for this year’s Campus Book Festival. […]

Yesterday evening the National Book Council announced the results of its 2019 Film Adaptation Fund following the premieres […]

The award-giving ceremony of the 2019 Doreen Micallef National Poetry Contest was celebrated on Friday 8 November at […]

The Malta Book Festival has now established itself as the most prestigious event in Malta revolving around books. […]

F’dan l-episodju mis-sensiela Taħt il-Qoxra Rachelle Deguara tkellmet ma’ Simona Cassano, Matthew Borg u Andrew Ricca, it-tim li pprepara […]

The Malta Book Festival has now established itself as one of the biggest cultural events revolving around books […]

The Malta Book Festival 2019, the most prominent and prestigious book celebration of the year, will take place […]

The National Book Council is pleased to present Judge Rosemarie Aquilina as the special guest of the 2019 […]

The adjudication board of the 2019 National Book Prize has been hard at work this summer to select […]

The popular comedy duo Danusan and the National Book Council have teamed up once again to present a […]

The biggest book celebration in country’s cultural calendar, the Malta Book Festival, will be opening with a literary […]

  The National Book Council is hereby announcing the shortlist of books, published in 2018, contending for the […]

The Executive Chairman of the National Book Council Mark Camilleri, in the presence of the Minister for Education […]

Applications for exhibitors wishing to participate in the upcoming edition of the Malta Book Festival 2019 are open. […]

The Campus Book Festival, organised by the National Book Council in collaboration with Għaqda tal-Malti – Università, is […]

The National Book Prize is the highest literary prize assigned to authors, publishers and illustrators for work published […]

  The National Book Council is hereby releasing the National Book Prize 2018 Shortlist for books published in […]

The National Book Council would like to notify the public that the adjudication board for the 2018 edition […]

The opening conference of the Malta Book Festival has been a permanent feature of the Festival ever since […]

The Cospicua Book Festival for Children, a new collaborative project by the National Book Council and the Cospicua […]

The Book Festival on Campus kicks off this Wednesday at 9:00 am at the University quadrangle. It will […]

The National Book Council will be taking part in the London Book Fair 2018, a yearly 3-day event […]

Girl bands Fuzzhoneys and Cryptic Street will be closing off the Campus Book Festival on Friday 23 March the […]

As 2018 celebrates the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the National Book Council is organising the screening […]

Artist Gabriel Buttigieg takes cue from his father Alfred’s controversial book Dik il-Qtajra (The Droplet) and uses it […]

Award-winning Slovenian writer Jasmin B. Frelih is the special guest of this year’s Campus Book Festival, which will […]

As part of the Campus Book Festival, Inizjamed will be organising an Open Mic session on Friday 23 […]

Up and coming young musician and song writer Noah Fabri will be playing during the Campus Book Festival […]

Authors Leanne Ellul and Clare Azzopardi will come together to discuss the common threads in their books Gramma […]

A talk on the socio-cultural importance of fairy tales within their social, living context will be given by Dr Veronica […]

What does it take to make a book by hand? Artist and poet Glen Calleja will be holding […]

Visual artist Jesmond Vassallo will be giving a talk about William Blake’s art of print-making, as part of […]

The National Book Council and Għaqda tal-Malti – Università are proud to present the fifth edition of the […]

The National Book Council thanks all members of the public who visited the Malta Book Festival 2017 and took part in the various activities that were set up for them. The NBC also thanks the exhibitors and all those who took part in the organization of the Festival. At the...

The winning project of this year’s edition of the NBC Literary Short Film Contest is a 15-minute film […]

A special treat in this year’s edition of the Malta Book Festival is an event set up by […]

The National Book Council is proud to present one of its better-known guests for the Summer Book Festival […]

The second and last day of the Summer Book Festival, 15 July, will be a day dedicated to […]

A highlight event of the first day of the Summer Book Festival in Gozo, due on 14 July, […]

The Literary Contest – Novels for Youth, which is set up annually by the National Book Council in […]

The first day of the Summer Book Festival on 14 July will be dedicated to youth and literature. […]

The Summer Book Festival, due on 14 and 15 July, will open with a book donation to Sir […]

The National Book Council announces it has prepared a treat for all book lovers this Summer: the Summer […]

The National Book Council has opened applications for exhibitors to participate in the upcoming edition of the Malta […]

The National Book Council is issuing a call for artists to submit artwork for a Literary Art Contest, […]

Yesterday evening the Book Festival on Campus came to an end with an event in honour of author […]

The second day of the Book Festival on Campus opened with an event that appeals strongly to those […]

The Book Festival on Campus opened yesterday at 10:00 am with a book presentation for primary school children: […]

This year’s highlight for Malta at the London Book Fair was Walid Nabhan with his novel “L-Eżodu taċ-Ċikonji”, […]

The National Book Council is publishing the programme of events for the Book Festival on Campus 2017, which […]

The National Book Council would like to announce that during the London Book Fair 2017, which is taking place […]

As was announced in a press release earlier this week, the special guest for the 2017 Book Festival […]

  The National Book Council and l-Għaqda tal-Malti – Università would like to announce that preparations for the […]

The National Book Council would like to announce that for the third year in succession, it will participate […]

The National Book Council would like to announce some of the most important dates in its cultural calendar […]

Below please find the Winners of the ‘MONS’ AMANTE BUONTEMPO’ Poetry Contest 2016 as announced in an official […]

The National Book Council would like to thank members of the public who visited the Malta Book Festival […]

The National Book Council is proud to announce the winners of the Terramaxka Prize 2016 – a national […]