India – JCB Prize for Literature announces 2022’s longlist
Titles in Urdu, Hindi, and Nepali have been featured in the longlist for the first time....
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Category: Awards
French-Moroccan novelist Leïla Slimani will chair 2023 International Booker Prize
At a time when many literary awards seems to be endangered species, it’s great to see the...
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The classic chicken and egg publishing problem the Nordics know the solution to
It wasn’t so very long ago when there was no audiobook market in the Nordics. The reason was...
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Ayobami Adebayo’s “Reste Avec Moi” is Prix Les Afriques 2020 winner
The winning novel, Reste Avec Moi, was first published in English under the title Stay with me...
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The 2020 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Translation announces shortlist
The five-book shortlist “covers the full span of the Arab world, from Morocco to Iraq” and a “a...
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Shortlist announced for 12th Etisalat Award for Arabic Children’s Literature
With 221 submissions from 22 countries, the judging panel for 12th edition of the Etisalat Award...
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Shortlist announced for the 2020 African Writers Awards and the Wakini Kuria Award for Children’s Literature
The African Writers Development Trust is an NGO that provides publishing grants, educational...
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“Let there be more films based on books by contemporary Ukrainian authors”
“It’s great that we have so much literature spanning different genres. Let there be more...
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Ten years after self-publishing took off in the UK, The Bookseller still excludes indie authors from its awards
The Bookseller 2012: “For years the publishing industry has ignored self-publishing. The...
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Authors from Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Syria make the shortlist for the 2020 ArabLit Story Prize
The Arabic Literature in English site ArabLit has revealed its short list of five blind-selected...
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Singapore Book Awards 2020 held online. Dedicated awards for Best Ebook, Best Audiobook and Best Digital Marketing. Cookery book takes the main prize
A cookery book takes the big prize at this year’s Singapore Book Awards, held online this year...
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The StreetLib-TNPS global-perspectives newsletter Publish MENA #9 is now available
The free StreetLib-TNPS B2B global-perspectives newsletter for Middle East North Africa authors...
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