Twenty writers from the United Kingdom and Ireland have been chosen from an initial pool of 708 Costa Book Award entries.
Rights Roundup: It Is Good To Be Finland’s Max Seeck
Markets represented in our Rights Roundup today include Finland, Italy, USA, Norway, the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, and Switzerland.
Yu Miri, Morgan Giles, Charles Yu Win 2020 US National Book Awards
Yu Miri and translator Morgan Giles win the 2020 National Book Awards category for translated literature, and Charles Yu wins for fiction.
Bologna Children’s Book Fair Joins London Book Fair in Moving to June
An even busier Bologna Children’s Book Fair than in the past will feature a new parallel general-publishing conference, ‘BolognaBookPlus.’
Rights Roundup: Summer Dreams in November
With a couple of summer themes, our entries here are from Italy, South Korea, Norway, Iceland, Canada, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
Turkish-German ‘LiteraTür Kids’ Opens November 16 Online
This series of events includes programming for children as well as for interested consumers and publishing professionals.
This Week: Discussions on Children’s Books in México and Germany
A cooperative effort produces series of international discussions on children’s book markets, author-illustrator relations, and bookselling.
Vietnam’s Ehomebooks Launches Children’s Picture Book Award
Looking to celebrate undiscovered authors and illustrators, Ehomebooks launches the International Children’s Picture Book Award.
Books to Film Rights: France’s TeamTO Studios To Animate ‘Ninn’
French animation studio TeamTO has acquired TV, film and licensing rights to the ‘Ninn’ graphic novel from Belgian publisher Kennes Éditions.
Penguin Random House Canada: Adrienne Tang to Build In-House Rights Business
Adrienne Tang, longtime rights director with Kids Can Press, moves to Penguin Random House Canada to create ‘an entirely new in-house rights operation,’ says CEO Kristin Cochrane.