Publishers formerly with Hachette and Simon & Schuster open politically conservative All Seasons Press ‘to take head-on the cancel culture’ decried by Trump’s advocates.
Sheikh Zayed Book Award: A Call for 2022 Submissions
The program opens its 16th prize cycle with a call for submissions in all nine of its categories, with translation funding expanded.
‘Amplified Publishing’: Kate Pullinger Leads a New Exploration
The author, university professor, and evolving-media specialist opens a new project in creative work and the digital context.
Jürgen Kaube Receives Inaugural German Nonfiction Prize
Nonfiction books ‘deserve a big stage right now,’ says the Börsenverein’s Karin Schmidt-Friderichs as this program names a first winner.
Sudhir Hazareesingh Wins 2021 Wolfson History Prize for ‘Black Spartacus’
‘Black Spartacus’ is a biography of Toussaint Louverture, a slave rebellion leader who died before he could see his revolution completed.
‘Sometimes I Am Furious’: Rights Roundup
The titles featured in this Rights Roundup include work from Sweden, Estonia, France, and the United Kingdom.
Sheikh Zayed Book Award Winner Iman Mersal: ‘Reading the Past’
A lost novelist, ‘her whispering voice, fleeing depression,’ led this Egyptian poet to one of the biggest literary prizes in the world.
Rights Roundup: Arianna Papini on ‘Rediscovering Happiness’
This edition of our Rights Roundups includes work from Canada, Finland, Italy, Sweden, the United States, and Germany.
Canada’s $75,000 Cundill History Prize Names 2021 Jury
The four jurors joining Michael Ignatieff for the Cundill Prize this year are based in India, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
China Bestsellers: April’s Slow Ride on the Spring Charts
The pandemic ‘year of the backlist’ appears to be still in force in China, the fiction and children’s charts gliding especially slowly.