The annual presentation of literary awards and career achievement honors was produced digitally for a second year.
Rights Roundup: The Pandemic Changes the Book Fair Calendar Again
Titles in our Rights Roundup come from Japan by way of Finland, as well as Slovakia, Sweden, Germany, Turkey, the United States, and France.
Simon & Schuster Signs Two-Book Deal With Mike Pence
Days before Republican John Boehner releases his party-pounding book from Macmillan, Trump’s vice-president gets a book deal of his own.
PEN America To Honor Five Career Achievement Prize Recipients
In Thursday’s program, special honorees are George C. Wolfe, Anne Carson, Daniel Alexander Jones, Kwame Dawes, and Pierre Joris.
German Nonfiction Prize Names Its First Round of Finalists
Eight titles now are in contention for the €25,000 honor, in the delayed first award cycle of the German Nonfiction Prize.
China Bestsellers for February: The Year of the Ox
Even as school reading lists and classics held sway on the charts, some ‘online literature’ also showed its popularity on February’s lists.
Finland’s 2020 Audiobook Sales Doubled, Ebooks Up 84 Percent
A new book market report on Finland’s book market shows the impact of the pandemic and looks at the bestselling Finnish books of 2020.
‘In the Dream House’: Carmen Maria Machado Wins the Rathbones Folio Prize
Author Carmen Maria Machado wins the Rathbones Folio Prize, which honors influential voices from American LGBTQ literature.
The US-Based Windham-Campbell Prizes Name 2021 Recipients
Supporting recipients with $165,000 grants, the Windham-Campbell Prizes honor critical thinkers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.
Enchanted Lion Books’ Claudia Zoe Bedrick on ‘Pushing the Form’
Nearly 20 years into its life as a publisher of international work for children, Enchanted Lion is planning picture books for older readers.