The 2020 edition of the ‘Canada Reads’ literary debate show rolls out a roster of five titles, each turning on contemporary social and/or political issues.
Wales in India: Dylan Thomas Prize Longlist Announced at Jaipur Festival
Thanks to the co-direction of the Jaipur Literature Festival by juror Namita Gokhale, the Dylan Thomas Prize is in India for its longlist announcement.
The British Academy’s 2020 Al-Rodhan Prize Opens; Wright Leads Jury
King’s College literature and history professor emeritus Patrick Wright has been announced as chair of the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2020
IPA Protests 2020 Cairo International Book Fair’s Exclusion of Tanmia Publishing
Organizers of the long-running book fair in Cairo cite security concerns in excluding jailed Prix Voltaire winner Khaled Lotfy’s Tanmia Publishing.
Bologna Publishers’ Prize Has January 31 Deadline; ‘Comics Corner’ Is New This Year
Bologna’s influential Best Children’s Publishers of the Year program has its deadline for submissions this year at the end of the month.
Helena Kennedy Stepping Down from the UK’s Booker Foundation
Kennedy is moving at the end of February to a new directorship at the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute.
Political Writings: The UK’s Parliamentary Book Awards Announce Delayed 2019 Shortlists
‘Issues that are important to the public today’ are examined in today’s three shortlists that the UK’s Parliamentary Book Awards held back—for the election.
The German Book Trailer Award 2020 Pushes ‘Play’ on Its Shortlists
The winners of the Deutscher Buchtrailer Award program will be named on January 30. The top prize winner’s book trailer will be seen in Berlin cinemas.
UK Costa Book Awards Names Short Story Finalists
A separate competition from the main category and overall award, the Costa Book Awards Short Story program uses public voting to choose its winner.
Inaugural German Nonfiction Prize Attracts 240 Submissions
The newly created German Nonfiction Prize has entries not only from German publishers but also from houses in Switzerland and Austria.