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Global Trade Talk: No Winner for Nigerian Book Prize; Planeta Prize Shortly

By Edward Nawotka At a gala held in Abjua, Nigeria Saturday night, twelve judges failed to settle on a winner for the $50,000 Nigeria Prize  … 

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Global Trade Talk: Is the Nobel too Eurocentric?; America Gets Film of Dragon Tattoo

By Edward Nawotka Peter Englund, the new permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy told the Associated Press that the Nobel Prize is too “Eurocentric,” noting  … 

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German Buch News: Bertelsmann Founder Mohn Dies; Roth Wins Die Welt Lit Prize

By Siobhan O’Leary Reinhard Mohn, the post-war founder of German media giant Bertelsmann, has died at the age of 88 (as reported in a press  … 

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What’s the Buzz: Alarcon Wins Berlin Lit Award; Rizzoli Speaks French

By Edward Nawotka Deutsche Welle reports that Daniel Alarcon has won the inaugural International Literature Award from Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt (House of  … 

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German Buch News: German Book Prize Finalists

By Siobhan O’Leary With the Frankfurt Book Fair just around the corner, the jury for the German Book Prize has announced its shortlist of six  … 

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Bonus Material: What Can Publishers Learn from Oddsmakers?

By Edward Nawotka No other country in the world has so many people betting on their top book prize as does the UK, where the  … 

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German Buch News: Indie Award “Hotlist” Criticized as Not Inclusive Enough

By Siobhan O’Leary The decision by a band of independent German publishers to launch their own book “Hotlist” as an alternative to the German Book  … 

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German Buch News: International Lit Prize Shortlist; Youths Spurn Bookselling

By Siobhan O’Leary Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt has announced the shortlist for its first ever “International Literature Prize”, which will be awarded on September  … 

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German Buch News: Indie Pubs Launch Award to Challenge German Book Prize

By Siobhan O’Leary A group of independent publishers are protesting the dominance of conglomerate publishers among the books longlisted for the year’s German Book Prize  … 

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German Buch News: German Book Prize Longlist; Bertelsmann Cancels Frankfurt Party

By Edward Nawotka The seven member jury of the German Book Prize has narrowed down an initial 150 submissions to 20 semi-finalists. A shortlist of  … 

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