Trade

From pledges to action
October 30, 2021 at 1:45 am

The Bookseller‘s recent Climate Issue (October 15th) successfully addressed the intertwined problem of commercial and environmental sustainability from a range of perspectives. This is vital to encourage broad engagement and hopefully commitment to change. But is the action the publishing industry is taking fast and far-reaching enough?

ALTA’s US National Translation Award Winners
October 29, 2021 at 5:01 pm

Tejaswini Niranjana, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Curzio Malaparte, and Archana Venkatesan win this year's ALTA's National Translation Awards. The post ALTA’s US National Translation Award Winners appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

ALTA’s US National Translation Award Winners
October 29, 2021 at 5:01 pm

Tejaswini Niranjana, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Curzio Malaparte, and Archana Venkatesan win this year's ALTA's National Translation Awards. The post ALTA’s US National Translation Award Winners appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Rights Roundup: A Winter Road Trip and News from Snowy Finland
October 29, 2021 at 1:09 pm

In this edition of Rights Roundup, you'll find work first published in Finland, Italy, Spain, the United States, Switzerland,and France. The post Rights Roundup: A Winter Road Trip and News from Snowy Finland appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Franz Kafka drawings reveal ‘sunny’ side to bleak Bohemian novelist
October 29, 2021 at 4:00 am

Surreal drawings by author of The Trial – which he demanded be burnt after his death – to be publishedStricken with self-doubt, paranoia and existential despair, the writings of Franz Kafka have taken generations of readers on what the author called “the descent into the cold abyss of oneself”.A trove of 150 drawings, retrieved from…