Trade

Azadeh Parsapour, the Iranian publisher and champion of work censored by Tehran, talks about the dangers her company and its authors must navigate to bring  suppressed writings to a Persian-language audience. The post Freedom To Publish: Interview with Iranian Publisher Azadeh Parsapour appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Highlighting people and projects in digital publishing, the FutureBook of the Year Award is sponsored by the Frankfurter Buchmesse. The post Frankfurter Buchmesse To Sponsor FutureBook of the Year Award appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Penguin Random House CEO Markus Dohle names Thomas Rathnow as Verlagsgruppe Random House's new chief, replacing Frank Sambeth. The post Frank Sambeth Out at Verlagsgruppe Random House, Thomas Rathnow In appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Penguin Random House CEO Markus Dohle names Thomas Rathnow as Verlagsgruppe Random House's new chief, replacing Frank Sambeth. The post Frank Sambeth Out at Verlagsgruppe Random House, Thomas Rathnow In appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Hurst Publishers has commissioned a history on Afro-Europeans from Professor Olivette Otele, the first black female professor of history in the UK.

Mitchell Beazley has acquired a second book from upmarket paint and paper brand Farrow & Ball.

Picador has acquired Empire writer Nick de Semlyen's history of '80s comedy movies, Wild and Crazy Guys.

Scholastic UK has acquired UK and Irish rights to I Need a New Bum, written by Dawn McMillan and illustrated by Ross Kinnaird. 

Saqi Books is publishing a newly discovered collection of short stories by the late author Naguib Mahfouz, who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature.

In this week's pictures round-up, Akala joins Stormzy to launch #Merky Books and CLPE celebrate its new crowdfunded literacy library.