Calling Antje Rávik Strubel’s book literature ‘that opposes injustice and violence,’ the German Book Prize 2021 jury honors ‘Blaue Frau.’
Pre-Frankfurt: The Booker Prize Outlines Its Winner Ceremony, Partnered With BBC
The November 3 event this year makes wider use of the BBC’s visual, audio, and digital channels in a 45-minute program.
Lydia White, Frances Clarke Win Germany’s €3,000 ‘GINT’ Translation Prize
The Börsenverein is announcing a digital ‘translation slam’ in which the winning translators’ work will be presented to the audience on November 9.
Frankfurt Studio: Canada’s Cundill History Prize to Name Its 2021 Finalists
The historian Margaret MacMillan, a former Cundill History Prize jury chair, speaks with current chair, Michael Ignatieff, in a Frankfurt Studio event.
The US National Book Awards Announce the 2021 Finalists
The New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment points out that 20 of the 25 finalists were written or published in the city.
ALTA’s 2021 National Translation Awards: Shortlists in Prose and Poetry
ALTA has shortlisted work translated from Spanish, French, Arabic, Kannada, Bengali, Chinese, Italian, Croatian, Tamazight, and Korean.
The Salon du Livre Africain’s First Outing: A Hit in Paris
In its inaugural staging, the Salon du Livre Africain de Paris invited more than 150 authors and presented 30 French and African publishers.
‘The Spirit of the North of England’: The Portico Prize’s Longlist
Of the 14 titles named to the Portico Prize’s fiction-and-nonfiction 2021 longlist, eight are debut publications for their authors.
The 2021 Business Book of the Year Award Announces a Shortlist
Issue-driven nonfiction brings cultural and science topics into the business context in the 16th Business Book of the Year Award shortlist.
London Book Fair Delivers Its Lifetime Achievement Award to Margaret Busby
Voted one of the ‘100 Great Black Britons’ in 2020, Margaret Busby is fêted at London’s Hurlingham Club for her Lifetime Achievement International Excellence Award.