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Ahmed Saadawi awarded the Golden Tentacle
Many congratulations to Ahmed Saadawi, whose novel Frankenstein In Baghdad was awarded the Golden Tentacle for a debut. The Kitschies reward the year’s most progressive, intelligent and entertaining fiction that contain elements of the More...
A Perfect Explanation longlisted for literary prize
Eleanor Anstruther’s A PERFECT EXPLANATION has been longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2019. Congratulations Eleanor!! The prize, named after literary agent and publisher, Desmond Elliott, is given each year to a debut novel. The shortlist More...
2019 - The year of Gustaw Herling
We are celebrating the courageous life and work of Polish writer Gustaw Herling, read below to find out more.
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...
