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Shortlist LiBeraturpreis 2023
Tatiana Salem Levy // "Vista Chinesa" by Tatiana Salem Levy is on the shortlist of the LiBeraturpreis 2023. The prize is awarded annually for an outstanding title by a female author from Africa, Asia, Latin America, or the Arab world in German translation. The winner will be announced on 14 [...]
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Shortlist Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial Prize
Héctor Abad // Héctor Abad‘s “Except for My Heart, All Is Well” is one of 6 finalists of the Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial Prize for Novels 2023. It consists of 100,000 dollars. The award ceremony will be held between 25 and 28 May 2023, at the Conjunto Santander de Artes [...]
Evolution of the Translator (LBF 2023)
At this year´s London Book Fair 2023, Nicole Witt has been invited to contribute to the panel "Evolution of the Translator". The panel will take place in the Literary Translation Centre on Wednesday 19th April 2023, from 11:05 until 11:50 am. How has the role of the translator evolved over the [...]
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Finalist of PEN Translation Prize 2023
Marcial Gala // Marcial Gala's Call Me Cassandra is one of the finalists for the 2023 PEN Translation Prize, the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Fiction, and the 2023 Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ fiction. > https://pen.org/literary-awards/ > https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/ > publishingtriangle.org/finalists-2023-triangle-awards/
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Bestselling Title in Colombia
Héctor Abad // "Except for My Heart, All Is Well", the most recent novel by Héctor Abad, occupies the 1st place of the bestselling list of the leading Colombian newspaper El Tiempo for 23 weeks since its publication in October 2022. "La Oculta" is currently number 3 on the list. [...]
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Visão Júnior selects Best Books of 2022
Maria Inês Almeida and Flávia Lins e Silva // The prestigious magazine Visão Júnior considers "The Mystery of the Stinky Sock" by Maria Inês Almeida and Flávia Lins e Silva, illustrated by David Pintor, winner of the Andersen Prize 2015, as one of the Books of the Year 2022 for [...]
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National Prize Sara Gallardo 2022
Paula Perez Alonso // Paula Perez Alonso wins the National Prize for Novels Sara Gallardo with her work Kaidú. The aim of the contest is to recognise the creation and literary quality of Argentinean women authors -cis, lesbians, transvestites, transsexuals and transgender people- and to award the best novel published [...]
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Book charts 2022 of L’Indiscreto
Agustín Fernández Mallo // Agustín Fernández Mallo's novel Trilogy of War reaches the 1st place of the book charts for the whole year 2022 of Italian's legendary magazine “L’Indiscreto”. Other authors on the list are Michel Houellebecq, Patricia Lockwood, Jennifer Egan, and Paul Auster. Three times a year, L'Indiscreto compiles [...]
