Today’s Rights Roundup features work originally published in German, Catalan, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Polish, and English.
Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah on Displacement, and ‘Ready Readers’
The 2021 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature reflects on his experience of being a refugee, and ‘the continuation of a colonial narrative.’
A Digital Festival Neue Literatur 2021: ‘Turn and Face the Strange’
Delayed from spring 2020, New York City’s Festival Neue Literatur runs November 11 to 14 with German and American writers and translators.
At Sharjah: Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre Releases Harari’s ‘Homo Deus’
The Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre has released its new Arabic translation of Yuval Noah Harari’s ‘Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow’ as part of its Kalima project.
Sharjah Book Fair’s Guest of Honor Spain: ‘Our Roots are Deep and Close’
Stressing that culture is a bridge between nations, Spain opens its guest of honor program at Sharjah International Book Fair.
Denmark’s New Saga Kids Imprint: Focused on Translation
The emphasis in the new children’s imprint at Saga Egmont is on translation of audio works into as-yet unexploited languages and territories.
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr wins the 2021 Prix Goncourt
The publishing house Philippe Rey has its first Prix Goncourt winner: Senegalese author Mohamed Mbougar Sarr. Rights are selling extremely quickly.
Sheikh Zayed Book Award: 3,000+ Submissions, a New Record
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award reports a 76-percent rise in submissions of work by women, and a 47-percent jump in entries of men’s work.
Polish Business Book Publisher Looks for Foreign Expansion
The focus of Poland’s MT Biznes is on small companies’ needs. A title the house has translated for sales in the UK has gone well.
Exuberant Rights Trading Highlights Sharjah’s Publishers’ Conference
Sharjah International Book Fair’s fully physical 40th edition hums with eager trading activity and a three-day conference.