Jurors say their shortlist for the 2021 Wolfson History Prize reflects the modern relevance of history. Shortlisted authors are in the Hay Festival program on June 2.
The UK’s £25,000 Al-Rodhan Prize Goes to Hazel Carby for ‘Imperial Intimacies’
The daughter of a Welsh mother and Jamaican father, Hazel Carby wins the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for her treatment of her family’s story.
The British Academy’s Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize Announces 2020 Shortlist
‘Converging in their concern with the legacies of empire,’ five titles are named by the £25,000 Al-Rodhan Prize program in London.
Industry Notes: HarperCollins on Caedmon Digital Audio; Yale Press Audio on First Titles
Industry Notes: Timely moves as the coronavirus pandemic propels interest in e-formats and audio in particular: Yale opens its own audio shop and HarperCollins issues digital Caedmon classics.
Carmen Bambach’s ‘Definitive’ Leonardo Study Wins AAP’s 2020 Hawkins Award
Yale’s publication of Carmen C. Bambach’s four-volumne Leonardo work takes the top honor in the Association of American Publishers’ PROSE Awards.
The UK’s Wolfson History Prize Announces its 2019 Shortlist
The Wolfson History Prize 2019 shortlist includes biographies of Wilde and Victoria, and studies in archeology, ornithology, seagoing wartime commerce, and ‘legacies of Nazi persecution.’
A Pre-Sales Record in India, an Unreadable Book in Spain
New book, old book: A quick-selling contemporary Indian book and a long-baffling ancient codex are in the news this week in international industry channels. By Dennis Abrams | @DennisAbrams2 At Amazon India: Record-Breaking Pre-Sales new record in India: the English-language daily broadsheet DNA India carries a report that author Chetan Bhagat‘s novel, One Indian Girl, has become the leading title for pre-order sales …
How Rabbi David Wolpe Wooed Hollywood
Beverly Hills rabbi David Wolpe seems tailor-made for silver screen stardom, but it took a book about a King David to convince Hollywood to call.
Patrick Modiano Wins 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature
Gallimard and publishers around the world celebrate Patrick Modiano’s 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature during the Frankfurt Book Fair.
You Too Can Start Your Own Translation Publishing House
Will Evans on the of his Dallas-based publishing house, Deep Vellum Press, and his intention to turn American readers into a community of translation lovers.