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An academic literary critic gets lost in the Age of Amazon.

Each month, Tobias Carroll shares a handful of recently released or forthcoming titles in translation that he’s especially excited about. This month's selection includes translated books from Mexico, Japan, Haiti, Argentina, and Norway.   From Deep Vellum Publishing | The

Amazon could be a major character in an antitrust suit over a proposed merger between two book publishers.

Nine years after initial interest in author Delores Redondo, NBCUniversal International Studios is taking four of her novels to film.

There’s no doubt that Amazon transformed the publishing industry. But has it done the same for literature itself?

ALTA has shortlisted work translated from Spanish, French, Arabic, Kannada, Bengali, Chinese, Italian, Croatian, Tamazight, and Korean.

Posted : 2021-08-04 13:43 New York-based literary agent Barbara Zitwer / Courtesy of Barbara Zitwer New York-based literary agent recently inked a flurry of deals with big Western publishers to release Korean novels globally By Kang Hyun-kyung Exporting Korean novels is a delicate and time-consuming job that requires network with big Western publishers as well as a significant level of knowhow in pitching translated books to them. Adding to the complexity, several different groups of people b...

The works featured in this installment in our Rights Roundup series include the tale of a famous pearl and ‘Magic Candies’ from Korea. Authors and illustrators whose work is featured in today’s Rights Roundup include, on the upper row from left, Magda Hellinger; Maya Lee; Carmen Posadas; and Jenny Jägerfeld. On the lower are, from left, Heena Baek; José Ovejero; Magdalena Hai; and Teemu Juhani A Rights Event Reminder: French Week As this is the last Rights Roundup we’ll have before it...

EBRD newsletter - Friday 07 May EBRD President makes first visit to Turkey EBRD President Odile Renaud-Basso made her first official visit to Turkey, virtually, on 3 and 4 May. She met representatives of central and municipal authorities, businesses, local banks, international financial institutions, the diplomatic community and civil society. Meetings focused on Turkey’s post-Covid-19 recovery and EBRD investments to support it. Istanbul joins EBRD Green Cities The President’s v...

Winner announced on 1 June 2021 Three novels have been announced as the finalists of the fourth EBRD Literature Prize, a €20,000 award launched in 2017 by the London-based European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), in collaboration with the British Council. The EBRD Literature Prize celebrates the very best in translated literature from the almost 40 countries where the Bank invests, from Central and eastern Europe to Central Asia, the Western Balkans and the southern and east...