Tejaswini Niranjana, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Curzio Malaparte, and Archana Venkatesan win this year’s ALTA’s National Translation Awards.
Rights Roundup: A Winter Road Trip and News from Snowy Finland
In this edition of Rights Roundup, you’ll find work first published in Finland, Italy, Spain, the United States, Switzerland,and France.
Canadian Author Catherine Mavrikakis at Frankfurt: ‘Serious Thinking’
‘My mother didn’t want us to live wars,’ said Canada’s Catherine Mavrikakis in a conversation at Frankfurter Buchmesse.
Next Stop After Frankfurt Book Fair: Sharjah’s Publishers’ Conference
Some 520 publishing professionals are traveling to the UAE for the 40th Sharjah International Book Fair and its Publishers’ Conference.
Sheikh Zayed Book Award Today: Arabic and Children’s Books
On the final trade-visitor day of Frankfurter Buchmesse, the UAE’s Sheikh Zayed Book Award has several programming points to consider.
Frankfurt Studio: The $75,000 Cundill History Prize Names Its Finalists
The Cundill History Prize Lecture is set for December 1, with last year’s winner, Camilla Townsend, speaking.
During Frankfurt: Springer Nature Offers Auto-Translation for Research
The newly piloted program from Springer Nature translates into English from Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and Portuguese and French.
Rights Roundup: Frankfurter Buchmesse Straight Ahead
Swedish readers are finding themselves in a widening conversation around gender relations based in a debut, ‘Letters to Men.’
A Growing Breed in France: Literary Agents Find New Traction
Long under-appreciated in the French book business, literary agents are making headway in rights and representation. A new report looks at their gains.
Lydia White, Frances Clarke Win Germany’s €3,000 ‘GINT’ Translation Prize
The Börsenverein is announcing a digital ‘translation slam’ in which the winning translators’ work will be presented to the audience on November 9.