Publishing News [Global]

Kathleen DuVal has been announced as the 2024 winner of the USD$75,000 Cundill History Prize for Native Nations: A Millennium in North America at a prestigious gala in Montreal, where the prize is administered by McGill University. The…

Returning to the British Library, Nicola Dinan, Jon Ransom and Sarah Hagger-Holt were announced as the winners of the 2024 Polari Prizes at a sparkling winners’ ceremony. Nicola Dinan took home the Polari First Book Prize for her tale of…

The London Book Fair (LBF) has revealed the Authors of the Day line-up for the 2025 Fair (March 11-13, 2025), which will feature: best-selling novelist and chair of judges for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024 Monica Ali as Adult Author…

The BolognaRagazzi Award – BRAW - is BCBF’s prize for the most outstanding and innovative picture books on an international level.There are five main award categories: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Opera Prima (a Debut Work by an unpublished…

The 34th International Publishers Congress, held from the 3-5 December 2024 in Guadalajara Mexico closed with an official declaration of commitments and the announcement of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as the host of the 35th Congress in 2026.…

Bodour Al Qasimi inaugurates 14th Sharjah Publishers Conference and honours winners of the ‘Rights Connection’  SheikhaSheikha Bodour bint Sultan Al Qasimi, Chairperson of the Sharjah Book Authority (SBA),…

Veristage has been honored with the 2024 dpr digital publishing award in the Process/Technology category for its AI platform for publishers, Insigh. The dpr digital publishing award, under the patronage of the German Federal Ministry for…

Cliobooks.ai has been launched into the market to democratise the art of book writing for authors, and make more high-quality, original works available to publishers. Founded by Georgia Kirke in 2023, ClioBooks.ai sits alongside her…

The Cundill History Prize, the world’s leading prize for a work of history written or translated into English, has named its 2024 finalists. Gary J. Bass, the William P Bowell Professor of World Politics of Peace and War at Princeton…

Han Kang has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature. Han Kang’s innovative and experimental narratives have resonated with readers worldwide. Her publications span across the globe through esteemed imprints: Hogarth in the United…