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QL 2.0 already in its second print run
Marc-Uwe Kling // We're happy to announce that Ullstein launched QualityLand 2.0 on 12 October with a total of 120,000 copies so far. An English working translation of the entire text is already available. www.ullstein-buchverlage.de
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CNN TV series Africa Avant-Garde
José Eduardo Agualusa // CNN International has included José Eduardo Agualusa in its TV series Africa Avant-Garde. For this special episode they're featuring novelists, poets and playwrights that explore literature as an art form for expressing ideas. > edition.cnn.com
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Invitation to Toronto Festival of Authors 2020
Gonçalo M. Tavares // Gonçalo M. Tavares has been invited to the Toronto International Festival of Authors 2020, taking place from October 22 to November 1, to talk about his Plague Diary (“Diário da Peste”). > festivalofauthors.ca
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Invitation to Brooklyn Book Festival 2020
Mia Couto and Marcial Gala // We are proud to announce that two of our authors have been invited to participate in the renowned Brooklyn Book Festival 2020: Mia Couto and Marcial Gala. The Festival was held virtually from September 28 to October 5. Mia Couto Links > brooklynbookfestival.mia-couto > brooklynbookfestival.org/event/under-the-skin-traces-of-history/ [...]
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Nomination for Dublin Literary Award 2020
Héctor Abad Faciolince // Héctor Abad is nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award 2020 with his novel The Farm ("La Oculta"). The title has already been published in twelve countries. > dublinliteraryaward.ie
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Short story @ New York Times Magazine
Mia Couto // Mia Couto's short story An Obliging Robber (“Um Gentil Ladrão”) has been launched as part of The Decameron Project in The New York Times Magazine: > nytimes.com For international rights, please get in touch with us.
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Rights sold for the Nocilla Project
Agustín Fernández Mallo // We are proud to announce that the rights for the Nocilla Project (“Proyecto Nocilla”) by Agustín Fernández Mallo have been sold to The Netherlands, Sweden and Turkey. An English edition has been published at Fitzcarraldo in the UK and at FSG in [...]
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Brown and Yellow selected by the English PEN
Paulo Scott // Brown and Yellow (“Marrom e Amarelo”) by Paulo Scott has been selected as one of 19 titles to win the flagship translation awards of the English PEN. The novel, translated from the Brazilian Portuguese by Daniel Hahn, is forthcoming at And Other Stories in [...]
