Edgar Allan Poe Awards 2018 winners announced
Monday, 30 April 2018
In the US, the Mystery Writers of America has announced the winners of the 2018 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, which honour ‘the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television’ published...
Waterstones sold to hedge fund Elliott Advisors
Friday, 27 April 2018
British bookstore chain Waterstones has been sold to hedge fund Elliott Advisors for an undisclosed amount, reports the Bookseller. Following exclusive talks that began in January 2018, Elliott Advisors bought...
Nasrallah wins International Prize for Arabic Fiction
Thursday, 26 April 2018
Jordanian-Palestinian author Ibrahim Nasrallah has won the 2018 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) for his novel The Second War of the Dog (Arab Scientific Publishers). The Second War of...
PEN America launches Online Harassment Field Manual
Thursday, 26 April 2018
PEN America has created an online field manual resource to address the rapid rise in the harassment and trolling of US writers and journalists. The manual was created in response...
Shortlist announced for Women’s Prize for Fiction 2018
Tuesday, 24 April 2018
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced. The six shortlisted titles are: The Idiot (Elif Batuman, Penguin) The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock (Imogen Hermes Gowar,...
UK academics vote on most influential books in history written by women
Monday, 23 April 2018
In the UK, academics, booksellers, publishers and librarians have voted on a list of the top 20 ‘books by women that changed the world’. Covering a variety of topics such...
UK report finds growing vocabulary deficiency among students
Friday, 20 April 2018
In the UK, a report commissioned by Oxford University Press (OUP) has found the number of students with 'limited' vocabularies is increasing, with the majority of teachers blaming this 'word gap'...
UK report finds ‘class pay gap’ in publishing industry
Thursday, 19 April 2018
A new UK report on representation in the arts has revealed a ‘class pay gap’ in publishing of £23,000 (A$41,900) a year, and found that people of working-class origins make up just...
Water Scott Prize 2018 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 18 April 2018
In the UK, the Water Scott Prize 2018 shortlist has been announced. The titles shortlisted for the £25,000 (A$46,000) prize for historical fiction are: Manhattan Beach (Jennifer Egan, Corsair) Sugar Money (Jane...
Greer wins 2018 Pulitzer Prize for fiction
Tuesday, 17 April 2018
In the US, Andrew Sean Greer has won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novel, Less (Lee Boudreaux Books). Less is the comic story about the misbegotten adventures...
Educational publishers win multimillion-dollar counterfeit textbook lawsuit
Monday, 16 April 2018
In the US, Book Dog Books—an importer and reseller of counterfeit textbooks—has been found guilty of multiple counts of copyright and trademark infringement, and in breach of a previous cease...
New York Rights Fair partners with BookExpo
Friday, 13 April 2018
BookExpo and the inaugural New York Rights Fair (NYRF) have formed a partnership that will make NYRF the official rights fair of BookExpo. BookExpo will move its rights centre to...
Man Booker International Prize 2018 shortlist announced
Friday, 13 April 2018
The shortlist for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Vernon Subutex 1 (Virginie Despentes, trans by Frank Wynne, MacLehose Press) The White Book (Han Kang,...
New nonfiction prize launched for books on contemporary India
Thursday, 12 April 2018
The New India Foundation has announced the establishment of the New India Foundation Book Prize for nonfiction books. The annual prize, worth Rs 15 lakhs (A$29,600), will be awarded to...
‘Exit West’ wins inaugural Aspen Words Literary Prize
Wednesday, 11 April 2018
In the US, Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West (Hamish Hamilton), about the turbulent lives of refugees, has won the inaugural US$35,000 (A$45,100) Aspen Words Literary Prize, reports NPR. ‘Exit West is...
Three Nobel Prize judges resign over mishandling of sexual misconduct allegations
Wednesday, 11 April 2018
Three members of the Nobel Prize committee, which selects the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, have resigned from their positions in protest over how sexual misconduct allegations were...
UK audiobook sales double over past five years; men drive growth
Tuesday, 10 April 2018
Audiobook sales in the UK have doubled over the last five years, reports the Bookseller. While book purchases across all formats in the UK last year fell by three percent...
Nemens appointed editor of ‘The Paris Review’
Monday, 9 April 2018
Writer and illustrator Emily Nemens has been appointed as the editor of the Paris Review, following the resignation of Lorin Stein last year amid allegations of sexual misconduct, reports the...
Egmont UK sales down in 2017; Australian market performed ‘according to plan’
Friday, 6 April 2018
Egmont UK has reported a 1.4% drop in sales to £50 million (A$91.3 million) in 2017, reports the Bookseller. The UK arm of Danish media corporation the Egmont Group said...
International Dublin Literary Award 2018 shortlist announced
Friday, 6 April 2018
The shortlist for the International Dublin Literary Award 2018 has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Baba Dunja’s Last Love (Alina Bronsky, Europa Editions) The Transmigration of Bodies (Yuri Herrera,...
Silber wins 2018 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Thursday, 5 April 2018
In the US, Joan Silber has won the 2018 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her novel Improvement (Counterpoint), reports the Washington Post. Silber's novel was selected from a shortlist of five...
UK bookstores form Independent Bookshops Alliance
Wednesday, 4 April 2018
A group of around 130 independent booksellers in the UK have formed the Independent Bookshops Alliance to give independent bookstores a louder voice in the industry, reports the Big Issue....
Bernard wins 2018 Ted Hughes Award
Tuesday, 3 April 2018
In the UK, London-born poet Jay Bernard has won the 2018 Ted Hughes Award for their multimedia performance Surge: Side A, reports the Bookseller. Surge: Side A explores the 1981 New Cross fire,...
Quarto’s profits decline by 58% despite children’s sales growth
Tuesday, 3 April 2018
Global illustrated book publisher the Quarto Group has reported its operating profits declined by 58% to US$7.2 million (A$9.4 million) last year, while its sales declined marginally by 1.4% to...
Revenue flat at PRH in 2017
Thursday, 29 March 2018
Penguin Random House (PRH) parent company Bertelsmann has reported revenue at the publisher in 2017 was stable, down a marginal 0.1% to €3.36 billion (A$4.39 billion) compared to €3.4 billion...
Dylan Thomas Prize 2018 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 28 March 2018
The shortlist for the 2018 International Dylan Thomas Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Kumukanda (Kayo Chingonyi, Chatto & Windus) Her Body & Other Parties (Carmen Maria Machado,...
US author Woodson wins Astrid Lindgren Award
Wednesday, 28 March 2018
In Sweden, US author Jacqueline Woodson has been announced as the winner of the five million krona (A$789,920) 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA). Woodson is the author of 30...
Winners of the 2018 Hans Christian Andersen Awards announced
Tuesday, 27 March 2018
The winners of the 2018 Hans Christian Andersen Awards have been announced at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, administered by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY). The...
Irish booksellers contribute €132 million to economy
Monday, 26 March 2018
A report commissioned by Bookselling Ireland has found the bookselling and supply chain sector contributes €132 million (A$211.7 million) to the Irish economy, reports the Irish Times. The report by...
More UK publishers report gender pay gaps
Friday, 23 March 2018
Hachette, HarperCollins and Springer Nature are among the latest UK publishers to report gender pay gaps as part of new government regulations that require companies with 250 or more employees...
