The African Book Festival Berlin has been happening in the German city since 2018.
Apart from the two Covid years, the festival has run to much success with many new markets for African writers being introduced.
In January, the festival organisers announced that their curator for 2023 would be Mauritanian Mohamedou Ould Slahi Houbeini.
His memoir Guantánamo Diary (Canongate Books, 2017) first published in 2015 became an international bestseller.
While still in captivity, he wrote the novel The Actual True Story of Ahmed and Zarga (Ohio University Press, 2021) where he takes his reader on an epic journey through the geographical and spiritual terrain of the Sahara.
Slahi Houbeini was to put together a programme that included Mauritanian poetry, but also readings, concerts, panel discussions, and film.
InterKontinental e.V. takes over the artistic direction of the African Book Festival 2023.
