Freedom to Publish

On 22 October 2025, a coalition of state and national booksellers, publishers and authors has successfully secured an injunction on the READER Act in Texas....
In June I attended the African Publishers Network Conference in Casablanca, Morocco. As ever it was a great pleasure to visit Morocco and to see...
Banned Books Week UK returns from 5–11 October 2025 to celebrate the books that have been challenged, removed or silenced, and to stand with the...
Attacks in mid-June destroyed the Ukrainian Priority Publishing House and attacks on the night of 3rd July reduced the warehouse of Ukrainian PEN to rubble....
IPA President, Gvantsa Jobava, as well as IPA Copyright Committee Co-Chair, Catriona Stevenson, both attended the Beijing International Book Fair, speaking at a number of...
Nadia Kandrusevich (Belarus, exiled in Poland) and Dmitri Strotsev (Belarus, exiled in Germany)...
Belarusian publishers Nadia Kandrusevich (Koska) and Dmitri Strotsev (Hochroth Minsk) jointly awarded the 2025 International Publishers Association’s Prix Voltaire at the award ceremony World Expression...
Following the sentencing on Thursday 27 March of Franco-Algerian author Boualem Sansal to five years in prison, the IPA joins others in the book sector...
The International Publishers Association supports our publishing colleagues in Türkiye following reports of a series of arrests that crack down on freedom of expression....