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The invitational opening of the 75th edition of Frankfurter Buchmesse and its Guest of Honor Slovenia pavilion is set for October 17. The post German Chancellor, Slovenian President To Open Frankfurt appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Ahead of its first fully-physical conference since 2019, the American Literary Translators Association announces its longlists. The post 2023 Longlists Named by American Literary Translators Association appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Orion Publishing Group has announced a string of editorial promotions across its imprints, with Tierny Witty, Claire Ormsby-Potter, Florence Filose and Laura Paton all stepping up with immediate effect.

The family and friends of poet Gboyega Odubanjo have raised more than £56,000 as part of a fundraiser launched to start a foundation for low-income Black writers in the writer’s memory. 

Unbound has achieved its first ever number one Sunday Times bestseller with 42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams edited by Kevin Jon Davies. 

When I heard Covid was keeping inmates in cells, I drove a car load of donated books to Pentonville. It became a project that now delivers thousands of books to British jailsIt all started during the first Covid lockdown in 2020. I saw a tweet from HMP Pentonville asking for book donations for the prisoners…

Siân Hughes’ Booker-longlisted novel Pearl, published by The Indigo Press, is now is it’s third re-printing. 

Nina Leon has joined Pérez Literary and Entertainment (PLE) as an associate agent while finance director Jack Mozley is now open for submissions for the first time.

Poet Laureate Simon Armitage and the Poetry School have announced a ‘world-class’ shortlist for the annual nature and eco-poetry prize, The Laurel Prize. 

Exploration company Viking will sponsor of the 2024 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards, run by map and travel book retailer Stanfords.