With a focus on Ukraine and daily keynotes each morning, London Book Fair’s programming is beginning to take shape.
Ukraine’s Lviv Book Forum: A Hay Festival Hybrid
The 29th Lviv Book Forum is being presented next month in a digital partnership with Hay Festival and British Council support.
Ukraine’s ‘The Orphanage’ Wins the 2022 European Bank Prize
Yale University Press’ publication of Serhiy Zhadan’s book is translated by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler.
British Council Names 12 Winners of Its New India-UK Fellowships
Translation is at the heart of this extensive program for publishers, featuring study trips, networking, skill training, and more.
British Council Announces London Book Fair’s Sharjah Market Focus Program
Twelve Emirati writers appear during London Book Fair as part of the Market Focus Sharjah program, produced with the British Council.
In Support of Export: The UK’s International Showcase Features LGBTQI+ Content
The UK’s International Literature Showcase presents its second curated listing of British authors, in a program devised to promote export and rights sales of UK writing.
Sharjah Is Named London Book Fair’s Market Focus 2020
In an announcement made at Sharjah Publishing City this morning (April 25), Sharjah has been named the 2020 London Book Fair Market Focus.
The UK’s Young Writer Prize Opens for Submissions and Remixes Its Sponsors
The newly renamed Sunday Times/University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award opens today (April 12) for submissions as it announces its new sponsorship regime.
London Book Fair’s Market Focus Indonesia: Creative Industries and a Spice Café
Not just books: Laura Prinsloo, who chairs Jakarta’s National Book Committee, says Market Focus Indonesia will stress ‘everything from film, games, animation and apps, to character, entertainment, and intellectual property.’
London Book Fair Names Singapore’s Jeremy Tiang ‘Literary Translator of the Fair’
Translation now has an official representative at the London Book Fair, with Jeremy Tiang as the first named to the honor.