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Tina Makereti longlisted for the New Zealand Book Awards 2019
Tina Makereti’s novel THE IMAGINARY LIVES OF JAMES PONEKE has been longlisted for the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize 2019 at the New Zealand Book Awards. The $50,000 Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize for 2019 will be judged by novelist and More...
Hallgrimur Helgason awarded the Icelandic Literary Prize
Hallgrímur Helgason has been awarded the Icelandic Literary Prize for his novel SEXTÍU KÍLÓ AF SÓLSKINI/SIXTY KILOS OF SUNSHINE. The Icelandic Literary Prize is an award which is given to three books each year by the Icelandic Publishers More...
Dunya Mikhail's THE BEEKEEPER OF SINJAR a finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award
Dunya Mikhail’s highly acclaimed non-fiction debut, THE BEEKEEPER (UK title – THE BEEKEEPER OF SINJAR), has been selected as one of five finalists for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Non Fiction 2019. The winner will be announced More...
Elena Varvello's CAN YOU HEAR ME? shortlisted for the TA First Translation Prize
The English translation of Elena Varvello’s LA VITA FELICE (CAN YOU HEAR ME?) by Alex Valente is shortlisted for the TA First Translation Prize, one of the seven categories of the 2018 Society of Authors’ Translation Prizes. This is an More...
SOMMERBY has been awarded the Zürcher Kinderbuchpreis 2018
We are delighted to announce that SOMMERBY by Kirsten Boie has been awarded the Zürcher Kinderbuchpreis 2018 prize. This is an important annual Swiss Children’s Book Award, the jury for which consists of both adults and children. Here is what More...
Anthea Bell, translator of Funke, dies aged 82
Anthea Bell was an extraordinary translator, and will be much missed. It was an immense pleasure and honour to have her translate the works of Cornelia Funke, and her work will continue to inspire readers and fellow translators.
Antony Beevor’s major history of the Russian Revolution and Civil War to Weidenfeld & Nicolson
We are delighted to announce that leading military historian Sir Antony Beevor has begun research on his next work, Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921. The book was commissioned by Alan Samson at Weidenfeld & Nicolson, to join Beevor’s More...
THE NEVER-ENDING BIRTHDAY and THE CLOAK OF FEATHERS nominated for the Fantastic Book Awards
We’re delighted to announce that THE NEVER-ENDING BIRTHDAY by Katie Dale and THE CLOAK OF FEATHERS by Nigel Quinlan have been nominated for the 2018 Fantastic Book Awards. The FBA is an annual book event designed to support children aged 9-11 years More...
THE BEEKEEPER OF SINJAR longlisted for the National Book Award
We’re delighted to announce that THE BEEKEEPER OF SINJAR, by acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail, has been longlisted for the inaugural National Book Award for Translated Literature 2018. Established in 1950, the National Book Award is an More...
Eleanor Anstruther’s debut novel A PERFECT EXPLANATION acquired by Salt Publishing
We’re thrilled to announce the acquisition by Salt Publishing of Eleanor Anstruther’s debut novel A Perfect Explanation. Described as a “monumental tale of family dysfunction”, A Perfect Explanation is set in the early to More...
