The annual presentation of literary awards and career achievement honors was produced digitally for a second year.
WIPO Will Present Its 2021 Accessible Publishing Award at Frankfurter Buchmesse
In its new partnership with Frankfurt, the World Intellectual Property Organization will award its Accessible Publishing honor on October 20.
Audio Publishers Association Names Its 2021 Audie Awards Winners
The 2021 Audie Awards include two wins for NK Jemisin’s ‘The City We Became’ and two for ‘The Autobiography of Malcolm X.’
Sheikh Zayed Book Award Shortlists: ‘Arab Culture in Other Languages’
The Sheikh Zayed Book announces its 2021 shortlists in ‘Arab Culture in Other Languages,’ ‘Publishing and Technology’ and Translation.
British Book Award Issues Its 2021 ‘Book of the Year’ Shortlists
This British Book Awards’ new ‘page-turner’ category is included in the ‘book of the year’ shortlists, with an awards event planned on May 13.
In London, Nielsen Announces Its 2021 Bestseller Awards
UK book sales tracked by the Nielsen Bestseller Awards in 2020 produced eight new platinum-sellers, bringing the total since 2000 to 149.
Sheikh Zayed Book Award Shortlists: Literature, Children’s Literature, and Young Author
The three shortlists announced today comprise nine titles selected from a total 39 longlisted works. Winners are to be named in May.
The US-Based Lambda Literary Awards Program Names Its 2021 Finalists
Moving this year to digital submissions, the 33rd annual Lambda Literary Awards program names 120 titles in its shortlists.
Sheikh Zayed Book Award Announces Its First Translation Grant of 2021
The Syrian author Khalil Sweileh’s ‘Remorse Test,’ winner of the 2018 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in Literature, is to be translated into Ukrainian by Nora-Druk Publishers.
Audio Publishers Association Names the 2021 Audie Awards Finalists
The annual Audie Awards program for audiobooks, now in its 26th year, prepares for a digital awards ceremony on March 22, having started with some 1,500 submissions in the pandemic year.