We are happy to announce that A House Full of People (“Una casa llena de gente”) by Mariana Sández has been selected to be pitched for screen adaptations at Iberseries & Platino Industria 2026.

Iberseries & Platino Industria is the leading international meeting point for professionals in the Ibero-American audiovisual sector. It brings together platforms, television networks, creatives, production companies, distributors, buyers, investors, and other key industry players, as well as organizations linked to tourism, education, and new technologies applied to the audiovisual field.
Its objective is to boost the visibility and global reach of content in Spanish and Portuguese, foster connections between talent and industry, promote international co-production, and drive the financing and commercialization of projects, generating new business opportunities.

A House Full of People is one of 16 titles chosen to be presented during this year’s sixth edition running from 29 September to 2 October in Madrid.

For further information, please see also the reporting in The Hollywood Reporter.

We are happy to share that Tatiana Salem Levy has been selected as one of three finalists for the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature 2026 for her novel “Vista Chinesa”.

Awarded annually by the Jan Michalski Foundation since 2010, the prize celebrates an outstanding work of world literature, regardless of genre or original language. Its distinctive international scope brings together works of fiction and non-fiction from around the world, with books nominated exclusively by the members of its international jury.

The winners of the Jan Michalski Prize receive a specially selected work of art, as well as CHF 50,000, enabling them to devote more time to their writing.

Previous winners of the prize include Guadalupe Nettel, Kate Beaton, Mia Couto, Zeruya Shalev and Olga Tokarczuk, among others.

> https://fondation-janmichalski.com/en/prix/edition-2026

After last year's positive feedback, Nicole Witt returned with a two day online workshop on Rights and Licences for the Frankfurt Global Network Programme.

The Frankfurt Global Network is a Frankfurter Buchmesse programme for the professional development and networking of publishers, rights managers and editors from around the world. It is a merger of the Frankfurt Fellowship Programme (launched in 1998) and the Frankfurt Invitation Programme (founded in the 1970s) and celebrated its premiere in 2025. This year's Programme includes 14 participants from all over the world and is open exclusively for publishers, editors, rights and licensing managers working on comics, manga and visual stories.

"Switching from delivering full-day seminars for the Invitation Programme in the days leading up to the Frankfurt Book Fair to the virtual format of the Frankfurt Global Network offers the advantage of being able to hold the workshop more in advance of the Fair and thus ensuring a better preparation", says Nicole Witt.

Some feedback from this year's participants:

"Thank you so much for the seminar on rights. It was really helpful. Being based in Southeast Asia often means it can already be quite a journey just to find the right rights holder or contact person, and then an even longer journey to get through the negotiation process. So hearing your perspective and experience was very useful for us."
Quynh Than, Co-Founder and Rights Manager & Editor at Du But Books, Vietnam

"Nicole Witt’s Rights & Licenses seminar is an essential tool for any publisher or agent involved in the buying and selling of rights. Nicole provides a meticulous overview of every stage of these processes, demonstrating—with both precision and a human touch—how to navigate the various aspects of drafting and signing contracts, maintaining a constructive approach during meetings, and effectively following up on agreements. As a professional, I highly recommend this seminar."
Diego Vázquez, Editorial Director at La Modernidad, Uruguay

"Thank you so much for the insightful and engaging Rights and Licenses seminar. It was truly enjoyable and very useful."
Ayşegül Utku Günaydın, Editor-in-Chief at Tudem, Delidolu/Desen, Turkey

"Thank you very much for the interesting presentation on ‘How to Frankfurt.’ I learned a lot."
Lucas Wetzel, Senior Editor at Andrews McMeel, USA

The National Library Foundation of Brazil (FBN) has announced the 2026 Support Program for the Translation and Publication of Brazilian Authors Abroad, in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Program works as follows: Foreign publishers submit their publication project to the FBN, according to the Public Notice and the Regulation for the Translation Program. Subsequently, a committee performs the screening of the documents submitted. Another commission, in turn, selects the projects.

All information (in Portuguese, English and Spanish) can be found here. To download the complete Regulations, please click here.

The Program will provide support for translation, editing, and/or publication proposals in both the humanities and the sciences, in the following genres: Anthologies of poems and short stories, in whole or in part; Short stories, chronicles, poetry, and novels; Essays (literary, social, popular science, etc.); Comics; Oral tradition stories; Children’s and young adult literature; Picture books.

Unless otherwise specified in the Call Notice, the FBN will provide financial support ranging from US$ 1,000.00 to US$ 6,000.00. Reissued projects may receive a support of up to US$ 3,000.00. The selected publisher commits to publishing the work within 24 (twenty-four) months from the date of signing the Term of Commitment.

Applications have to be submitted until 13 September (11:59 p.m., Brasília time) via the new official platform. The final results will be published on 24 November.

“The Red Earth” by Morgana Kretzmann is recommended on CrimeReads‘ Best International Crime Fiction of July 2026 list. The English translation by Daniel Hahn has just been launched in the US by HarperVia.

“The Red Earth is an ecothriller with supernatural elements that packs a serious emotional punch. (…) A tour de force of righteous fury that demands to be reckoned with, and an insightful dissection of a community on the precipice of destruction.”

CrimeReads is dedicated to the world of crime, mystery and thrillers, and maintained by LitHub.

You can find the complete list of four titles here.

The Feltrinelli Anagrama Foundation and Formentor Foundation will publish together The Formentor Canon. A History of Literature, with prefaces by Jorge Herralde, Antoine Gallimard and Basilio Baltasar.

The volume recounts the history of the prestigious literary prize originally founded in Formentor (Mallorca) in 1961 and revived 50 years later. From Samuel Beckett to Jorge Luis Borges, Annie Ernaux, László Krasznahorkai, Hélène Cixous and Gonçalo M. Tavares, the writers awarded the Formentor Prize have had a decisive influence on the history of the European novel.

Each awarded author is presented by an essay from well-known contemporary essayists, critics, translators and writers.

The book will be published on 9 September 2026.

El canon Formentor. Una historia de la literatura
Fundación Feltrinelli/Anagrama
Barcelona, 2026
Páginas: 736
Medidas: 20×26 cm.
ISBN: 978-84-339-5051-2

We would like to inform interested publishers that the application deadline for Translating Chile 2027 has been extended to August 31, 2026, at 23:59 Chile Continental Time.

All other terms and conditions of the call remain unchanged. Applications may still be submitted in English or Spanish, and results will be published via www.dirac.gob.cl/

We are delighted to announce that Tatiana Salem Levy has been included in the second selection for the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature 2026 for her novel “Vista Chinesa”.

Awarded annually by the Jan Michalski Foundation since 2010, the prize celebrates an outstanding work of world literature, regardless of genre or original language. Its distinctive international scope brings together works of fiction and non-fiction from around the world, with books nominated exclusively by the members of its international jury.

The second selection includes 5 titles chosen from the 14 works initially nominated for the prize.

The winners of the Jan Michalski Prize receive a specially selected work of art, as well as CHF 50,000, enabling them to devote more time to their writing.

Previous winners of the prize include Guadalupe Nettel, Kate Beaton, Mia Couto, Zeruya Shalev and Olga Tokarczuk, among others.

> https://fondation-janmichalski.com/fr/prix