The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (Atlantic) has been named the winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Adiga, who was born in... Read more |
The Frankfurt Book Fair opens today and runs through this week until Sunday. The fair, celebrating its 60th birthday this year, is expecting one of... Read more |
By a unanimous show of hands, publishers from Canada, Australia and New Zealand voted to pursue closer cooperation between the three English-language markets at a... Read more |
The Supply Chain Specialists meeting is a stalwart of the Frankfurt calendar: this year’s meeting was the 30th annual get-together for the often unsung people... Read more |
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced it is partnering with the University of Melbourne Book Industry Study and Thorpe-Bowker to undertake ‘an online survey... Read more |
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2008. He is described by the Nobel committee as an ‘author of... Read more |
Fremantle Press has announced the appointment of Georgia Richter to the position of publisher, with responsibility for the adult fiction and poetry lists. ‘Georgia is well-known in... Read more |
Booksellers New Zealand has announced the resignation of CEO Linda Henderson. ‘It is with much regret that I announce the resignation,’ said Hamish Wright, chair... Read more |
The winners of this year’s Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards for women’s crime writing have been announced. Katherine Howell took out the Best Crime Novel... Read more |
Anita Heiss and Peter Minter are the winners of the 2008 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Deadly Award for outstanding achievement in literature. The award,... Read more |
BNZ Katherine Mansfield Short Story Award winners announcedThe winners of the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Awards for 2008 have been announced. The Awards celebrate New Zealand... Read more |
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: A ‘lacklustre’ year for the Book shortlist ‘Der Turm’ wins German... Read more |
Twilight is sitting pretty at number three in the Bestsellers, as Stephenie Meyer keeps the chart afloat with four of her titles in the top... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Frankfurt Book Fair, Germany, 15-19 October Belgrade International Book Fair,... Read more |
Ron Hanby, director of gay and lesbian sales at Bookazine (in America), has died. Before joining Bookazine, Hanby worked at Waldenbooks, B Dalton Bookseller and... Read more |
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