The French-American Foundation’s Translation Prize is in its 36th year, and has three winners from its two categories of fiction and nonfiction.
The £50,000 International Booker Prize’s 2023 Longlist
Announcing its 2023 longlist of novels written in 11 languages, the International Booker Prize shares its sales impact on last year’s winner.
The Society of Authors: 2023 Translation Prize Winners
The Society of Authors names its 2023 winning translators of work from Arabic, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, and Spanish.
Beyrouth Livres: A First Staging in a Troubled Market
The new iteration of the francophone book fair in Beirut was designed ‘to have the author meet the public’ in beleaguered Lebanon.
Juan Pirlot de Corbion on YouScribe: Betting on Africa
‘Every mobile can became a pocket library,’ according to digital book distributor Juan Pirlot de Corbion at YouScribe.
Nielsen BookData Opens a Third Annual Industry-Wide Awards Survey
Looking at how industry professionals see the dynamics and value of book awards, Nielsen opens a new 10-minute survey.
Québec Édition Opens Applications for Its 2022 Rendez-vous Fellowship
This fellowship, planned for November, hosts international publishers during the Salon du livre de Montréal.
Edwige-Renée Dro and Côte d’Ivoire’s ‘1949’ Library of Women’s Writings
International Women’s Day: Côte d’Ivoire has a library centered on literature written by African and Black women.
Russian Court Closes Memorial International, 2021 Michalski Prize Winner
In what France’s foreign minister terms ‘a terrible loss,’ Moscow’s high court closes the organization and publisher Memorial International.
An Exposé of the ‘Ostarbeiter’ Wins Switzerland’s 50,000-Franc Jan Michalski Prize
The Jan Michalski Prize for Literature honors Georgia Thomson’s new translation of the title about East European victims of Nazi forced labor.