BookNet Canada uses BISAC code research to explore Indigenous-focused literature in the English-language Canadian market.
Guest of Honor Peru at Guadalajara: Overcoming a 30-Percent Pandemic Drop
Before the pandemic, only 5 percent of Peru’s publishers and booksellers had made digital sales. Peru was guest of honor at Guadalajara.
Kim Thúy and Michel Jean in Frankfurt: Canadians of Multiple Cultures
As part of Canada’s Guest of Honor program at Frankfurter Buchmesse, authors Kim Thúy and Michel Jean spoke about the role of identity in storytelling.
Canada’s Governor General, Mary May Simon, Announces She’ll Attend Frankfurt
Canada’s first Indigenous governor general, Mary May Simon, is to include Frankfurt Book Fair in her state visit to Germany this month.
Frankfurt’s Once and Future Guest of Honor: Canada on ‘Quite the Journey’
In praise of resilience, creativity, and its cultural ‘Singular Plurality,’ Guest of Honor Canada is looking for ‘where we discover the raw material of inspiration.”
Canada’s Indigenous Communities to Benefit from Emerald Project
The First Voices First project between Emerald and Canada’s Council of Prairie and Pacific Libraries opens research to Indigenous communities.
Canada’s Kids Can Press Opens a ‘Black Write’ Incubator with Nelvana
The children’s publisher Kids Can Press has partnered with Nelvana to develop content from Black writers, submissions opening now.
Words Without Borders: Paraguay’s Indigenous Guaraní-Language Poetry
An Indigenous language based in Paraguay yields poetic musings from a tongue in which ‘word’ and ‘soul’ are the same.
Canada’s Giller Foundation Donates $50,000 to Indigenous and Diaspora Literature
The Giller Foundation in Toronto issues two major grants to writing organizations working in Canada to support Indigenous literature.
Activist Teela May Reid Wins Western Australia’s Utemorrah Award
Teela May Reid, a Sydney-based attorney, will see her book ‘Our Matriarchs Matter’ published by Magabala Books as part of her Utemorrah win.