With marketplace-impact data of its winner to follow, the UK’s Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction names its 2024 shortlist at Cheltenham.
UK: The £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize’s 2024 Longlist
The Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction has released its 12-title 2024 longlist, with its shortlist expected from the jury on October 31.
Hachette’s David Shelley Names Sally Kim to Lead Little, Brown
David Shelley, in naming Sally Kim as publisher of Hachette division Little, Brown, says he has admired her work ‘from across the Atlantic’.
Circana BookScan: A Holiday-Season Boost in US Print Sales
Circana Bookscan reports that in week 51 in the U.S., 31 million print books were sold, marking a 1-percent holiday season growth over 2022.
AAP’s International Freedom to Publish Award Casts a Wide Net
Citing concern among publishers about retaliatory governments, AAP opts not to name a specific winner of its 2023 International Freedom to Publish Award.
AAP Names Venezuela’s Editorial Dahbar its International Freedom to Publish Winner
The 2022 AAP Jeri Laber Award honors Venezuela’s Editorial Dahbar, ‘one of the few publishers still operating in the country.’
Awards: The International Booker Prize 2022 Longlist
The 13-title 2022 International Booker Prize longlist includes three books each from Tilted Axis Press and Fitzcarraldo Editions.
Awards: Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu Wins the PROSE Hawkins Honor
Seeing what the Vietnamese experienced ‘narrated through their skin,’ NYU’s Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu wins the AAP’s 2022 RR Hawkins Award.
Gold House Issues a New Asian and Pacific Islander Reading List
Tasked with bringing more cohesion to the Asian and Island Pacific communities in diaspora, Gold House names the first six of its 2022 books.
Guatemala’s F&G Editores Wins AAP’s Freedom to Publish Award
Raúl Figueroa Sarti, thanks AAP for helping to expose ‘the risks that freedom of expression and publication are experiencing today.’