With three of five titles coming from Hoopoe Books, the 15th annual iteration of the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize names its shortlist.
Translation Rights: Italy Has 238 Books Going into 40 Languages
Having ramped up its rights trade for five years, the Italian market now looks to a new translation fund to support its overseas sales.
Rights Roundup: It Is Good To Be Finland’s Max Seeck
Markets represented in our Rights Roundup today include Finland, Italy, USA, Norway, the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, and Switzerland.
Yu Miri, Morgan Giles, Charles Yu Win 2020 US National Book Awards
Yu Miri and translator Morgan Giles win the 2020 National Book Awards category for translated literature, and Charles Yu wins for fiction.
Rights Roundup: Summer Dreams in November
With a couple of summer themes, our entries here are from Italy, South Korea, Norway, Iceland, Canada, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
Publishing Scotland Opens a New Round in Its Translation Fund
The second of two rounds in translation funding of works from Scottish by international publishers has opened for proposals.
UK-Born Lucy Moffatt Wins Norway’s 2020 NORLA Translator’s Award
The Norwegian Literature Abroad program, NORLA, honors Norwegian-to-English translator Lucy Moffatt with its annual prize, and lists this month’s international trade meetings.
Vintage Español Joins PRH Grupo Editorial USA To Create PRH Español
Headquartered in Miami, Penguin Random House Español dedicates more than 20 employees to PRH’s Spanish-language content.
‘Let’s Talk’ Program Opens Monday, Aligned with the Thessaloniki Book Fair
Frankfurter Buchmesse presents seminars on COVID-era bookselling, translation, and publishing, in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut and the Hellenic Foundation for Culture.
Many Elections Ago: The First Translation from Amazon Crossing
The first Amazon Crossing translation was released 10 years ago today. Born into a political season, the imprint is widening its own campaign.