Pleased with Guest of Honor Canada at Frankfurt, PRH Canada CEO Kristin Cochrane talks about the trade show and her in-house rights office.
After 36 International Rights Deals, ‘Station Eleven’ Is Headed for Television
As Emily St. John Mandel’s ‘Station Eleven’ premieres in its HBO Max adaptation, her new ‘Sea of Tranquility’ is set for April from Knopf.
Rights Roundup: A 102-Book Deal With Storytel in Stockholm
Today’s Rights Roundup features work originally published in German, Catalan, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Polish, and English.
Canada’s 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize Goes to Omar El Akkad
The Egyptian-Canadian author of ‘American War’ takes the CA$100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize, as Aspen Words longlists his ‘What Strange Paradise.’
Aspen Institute Names Its 2022 Aspen Words Literary Prize Longlist
Now in its fifth award cycle, the $35,000 Aspen Words Literary Prize names 16 books to its 2022 longlist, with a shortlist to come February 23.
French Youth Books: Glénat Acquires Hugo Companies for Romance, Comics
One goal of Glénat’s acquisition of Hugo, says Arthur de Saint Vincent, is a complementary use of licenses, heavy on romance and comics.
In the United States: Sourcebooks Acquires BES Publishing
‘Our children’s book business now accounts for more than half our annual sales,’ says Sourcebooks’ Kay Birkner as the company buys BES Publishing.
South Africa’s Damon Galgut Wins the 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction
Calling himself ‘a writer fascinated by the edge of the map,’ South Africa’s Damon Galgut finally wins the Booker on his third shortlisting.
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr wins the 2021 Prix Goncourt
The publishing house Philippe Rey has its first Prix Goncourt winner: Senegalese author Mohamed Mbougar Sarr. Rights are selling extremely quickly.
Sheikh Zayed Book Award: 3,000+ Submissions, a New Record
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award reports a 76-percent rise in submissions of work by women, and a 47-percent jump in entries of men’s work.