The annual PEN America Literary Awards this year have included three career-achievement awards and 11 book awards.
Children’s Rights Roundup: ‘Buy Ukrainian Book Rights’
Our Rights Roundup of young readers’ titles, authors, and illustrators ahead of Bologna.
China Bestsellers in January: A Three-Adaptation Problem
Now with three serial adaptations either on the air or in post-production, Liu Cixin’s ‘The Three-Body Problem’ rockets up the charts.
England’s Young Writer of the Year Award Names Its Shortlist
This four-title shortlist for the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Trust Young Writer of the Year Award is to yield a winner by mid-March.
Rights Roundup: Seeds of Peace
Our translation rights deals today are for fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books from Iceland, Sweden, Canada, the US, and England.
China’s Book Market in 2022: An 11.77-Percent Decline
Overall book sales in China decreased in 2022, but online sales driven by TikTok and other short-video platforms are growing rapidly.
NPD BookScan Sees 2023 US Book Market ‘Off to a Solid Start’
US backlist book sales grew in January, according to NPD Bookscan, with adult fiction helping to offset sagging adult nonfiction.
England’s Rathbones Folio Prize Announces 2023 Shortlists
Drawn from an international field of writers working in English, the Rathbones Folio Prize shortlists add up to 15 titles.
China Bestsellers in December: What the Kids Are Reading
With adults following the animated adaptation of ‘The Three-Body Problem,’ we look at the China’s bestselling children’s books for December.
Charles Tripp Chairs the British Academy’s £25,000 Book Prize Jury
The British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding will name its winner in October. Publishers are submitting now.