Publishing Scotland will award ‘Go-Digital’ and translation-rights grants in their current rounds with August deadlines.
Rights Roundup: A New Look at Southern Italy’s Ancient Paestum
News from publishers and agents today comes from England, Norway, Italy, Germany, and Finland–where Max Seeck rules in rights sales.
Richard Charkin: A Publisher on the Translators’ Debate
The view from Richard Charkin on issues of translators’ credit and compensation is that translators ‘should be careful what they wish for.’
Ukraine’s ‘The Orphanage’ Wins the 2022 European Bank Prize
Yale University Press’ publication of Serhiy Zhadan’s book is translated by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler.
Frankfurt’s Guest of Honor Spain Meets With Madrid’s Press
As many as 450 Spanish works may be published in translation by the October 19 to 23 run of Frankfurter Buchmesse this year.
Sheikh Zayed Book Award Opens Its 17th Round of Submissions
After honoring its 2022 winners, the United Arab Emirates’ Sheikh Zayed Book Award issues a call for 2023 submissions.
European Federation’s New ‘Global Bookselling Report’: Markets Bearing Up
The European and International Booksellers Federation’s report sees growth trends of between 5 and 15 percent.
At France’s Maghreb Orient des Livres: The Algerian War Anniversary
Paris’ Maghreb Orient des Livres, which celebrates literature from the Middle East and North Africa, focused this year on the six-year Algerian War and independence from France.
In Canada, the $75,000 Cundill History Prize Names Its Jury
Four jurors join the chair JR McNeill for the 2022 Cundill History Prize competition, based at McGill University.
Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre Establishes Its New ‘Kanz Al Jeel’ Nabati Award
‘Enriching the local and Arab cultural and literary landscape,’ Dr. Ali Bin Tamim says, is a goal of the 1.5-million-dirham Kanz Al Jeel Award.