‘The pressure on books and the industry is huge,’ says author-campaigner Nikesh Shukla, a rising star in diversity awareness. ‘Once they can get wi-fi on all public transport, that’s probably it for books.’
The UK’s CrimeFest 2019 Honors Shukla, Lippman, Rowling
Led by Nikla Shukla’s contemporary story of young people trying to work out corruption in an inner city housing scam, the CrimeFest awards are announced in Bristol.
England’s South Asian Desiblitz Literature Festival Plans a Hybrid Edition
The third staging of the Desiblitz Literature Festival in Birmingham will feature both published authors and workshop programming.
Interview: 2019 Star Watch Superstar Jennifer Baker of ‘Minorities in Publishing’
New York City-based Jennifer Baker, as the PW Star Watch program’s 2019 Superstar, prepares for Frankfurter Buchmesse as your text here.
Guy Gunaratne Wins the 2019 Dylan Thomas Prize for ‘Mad and Furious City’
The acclaimed debut novelist talks of his fellow-feeling for ‘aspiring writers, who are writing from a place similar to where I began.’ Gunaratne divides his time between London and Malmö.
The UK’s CrimeFest Awards Shortlists Include Clinton, Patterson, King
The UK’s crime fiction convention, CrimeFest, announced the shortlists in six categories for its 11th annual awards program.
The UK’s National Book Awards Announce Holiday Season Shortlists
Designed ‘to find the best popular books of the year in the lead-up to Christmas,’ the UK’s Specsavers National Book Awards will end with a consumer vote.
Foreign Correspondent Richard Lloyd Parry Wins £20,000 Rathbones Folio Prize
A veteran foreign correspondent and Asia editor to The Times, Richard Lloyd Parry has won the Rathbones Foiio for his examination of the worst catastrophe in Japan since the atomic bombings of World War II.
The Rathbones Folio Prize Shortlist Is Announced, as ‘Evolved’ Booker Debate Flares Again
In a contentious turn of events, the Rathbones Folio Prize shortlist announcement prompts criticism of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, while the Rathbones prize, itself, admits US entries, as the Booker does.
At FutureBook 2017: The Contributions of Publishing’s Conference Contrarians
At a time of political tumult, FutureBook 2017 was a comparatively steady event, rocked only occasionally by the contrarian views that make sparks fly.
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