Mohammed Alnaas, from Libya, has become the youngest writer to win the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
Rights Edition: Aufbau’s Inka Ihmels on ‘Exchanging Ideas With Arab Publishers’
Abu Dhabi-bound rights director Inka Ihmels of Berlin’s Aufbau Verlag is looking to learn ‘what kinds of genres work in Arab markets.’
Rights Roundup: A Finnish Flash Point From 1961
Titles in this Rights Roundup come from Turkey, Spain, France, Finland, and Sweden, and include work for adults and young readers.
Rights Edition: Abu Dhabi Opens Its ‘Spotlight on Rights’
Abu Dhabi’s ‘Spotlight on Rights’ has provided some US$500,000 in translation publication and digital-conversion suppport.
German Nonfiction Prize To Offer NFTs With the Creatokia Marketplace
In a pilot program with Bookwire’s Creatokia, the Börsenverein offers NFTs related to the German Nonfiction Prize.
Children’s Books Edition: A Spring Rights Roundup
Our children’s and YA titles in this Rights Roundup come from South Korea, Spain, France, Estonia, Norway, and the UK.
Sharjah and Wroclaw Announce a New ‘Stand With Ukrainian Writers’ Fund With Translation Support
Translation funding as well as scholarships are to be supported by the Stand With Ukrainian Fund established by Sharjah and Wroclaw.
Georgia’s Iva Pezuashvili Wins the European Union Prize
The author-filmmaker Iva Pezuashvili wins the €10,000 European Union Prize for Literature in its newly evolved single-prize format.
Richard Charkin: On Trust and the Trade
In publishing, ‘Everywhere, our industry is seeing a plethora of legal or quasi-legal activity.’ Richard Charkin writes.
Ukraine: A Call to Buy Rights to Support Publishers
Oleksander Afonin presents ‘Books from Ukraine,’ asking the world book publishing industry to support Ukrainian publishers.