The United States’ most prominent awards program for audiobooks turns 25 this year with a 24-category shortlist of finalists.
During Dubai’s Emirates Airline Program: A Festival of Festivals
Alongside its public events, the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature aims to establish a Global Alliance of Literary Festivals with a conference for organizers.
London Book Fair Names Its 2020 Trailblazers and Charity of the Year
The UK’s Royal Voluntary Service for the elderly is the charity of the year at London Book Fair, which is also honoring young publishing players.
Journalist Jack Fairweather Wins £30,000 Costa Book of the Year
What jurors call ‘an extraordinary and important book that people need to read,’ Jack Fairweather’s timely ‘The Volunteer’ wins the top Costa in London.
UK’s 2020 Portico Prize Goes to Jessica Andrews’ Debut ‘Saltwater’
The Manchester-based Portico Library Prize for Literature–focused on the country’s North– finds its winner in a native of Sunderland.
‘Canada Reads’: CBC’s 2020 Lineup Includes Cory Doctorow’s ‘Radicalized’
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.