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Ellen Clifford has won the Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing with her book The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe (Zed Books).
The eagerly anticipated third novel by Hanya Yanagihara envisions three different versions of America.
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.
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.
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.
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…
Hachette UK saw its revenues fall 3% in the third quarter of 2021 compared to the same period last year, although c.e.o. David Shelley said sales were still “extremely strong" and ahead of forecasts, with increased market share.
Lightning Books has scooped the debut novel by award-winning Scottish playwright and rising screen star Kenny Boyle.
White Rabbit has signed a new memoir by Mark Lanegan, described as a “terrifying account” of Covid-19, which left the songwriter slipping in and out of a coma.