Authors protest withdrawal of Nelly Sachs award
Earlier this month British-Pakistani author Kamila Shamsie was awarded the Nelly Sachs award (which comes with a €15,000 prize). Alison Flood reports for the Guardian that the jury specifically cited… Read more »
Western authors take stand in Israel/Palestine conflict by refusing to be published in Israel
An Israeli publisher is finding it increasingly difficult to acquire translation rights to some of the year’s most important novels, mostly due to the reinvigorated support many writers are feeling… Read more »
This year, there’ll be a Man Booker Prize for best Man Booker Prize-winner
All that glitters is gold. The folks behind the Man Booker Prize, the UK’s leading prize for novels, has announced that this year they’ll be awarding a “Golden” Man Booker, a one-time-only… Read more »
Oregon publisher Not a Pipe is “foolish enough to buck the system”
Well, reader, we goofed. Last week, we mistakenly reported that but ONE mighty publisher had taken up Kamila Shamsie’s challenge to make 2018 the year of publishing women, but it turns out… Read more »
2018 won’t be “the year of publishing women” after all
In the more innocent days of June 2015, we wrote about novelist Kamila Shamsie’s call to make 2018 the year that publishers around the world only published books written by… Read more »
Lionel Shriver calls the Year of Publishing Women “rubbish”
Last year we reported on novelist Kamila Shamsie’s call to make 2018 the “Year of Publishing Women”—an effort to correct the gender imbalance among authors who win and judge major… Read more »