Gesa Stedman goes on a round-trip and gives you the latest on sales figures, endemic racism in the literary field, bookselling during a pandemic, and more. The next Book News will be published after the summer break. Read more
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Book News – The Latest Developments from the Literary Field
Gesa Stedman rounds up the most important news from the literary field from in-house audio production to more or less Read more
Racism and the Booker Prize: Bernadine Evaristo is not “the other author”!
While it was already doubtful whether Bernadine Evaristo as the first black woman ever to win The Booker Prize Read more
Summer Break & Reading Initiative #indiebookchallenge
Before we go on a summer break, we would like to draw your attention to the #indiebookchallenge. Introduced in March 2018, it offers weekly challenges around books made by independent publishers. You can join in any time – why not over the summer break?! Read more
Jhalak Prize for Reni Eddo-Lodge’s Why I No Longer Talk to White People about Race
Gesa Stedman explains one of the most recent attempts to diversify the literary field in the UK, the Jhalak Prize, which was awarded for the second time on 15 March 2018. Read more
Bibliodiversity, Fair Speech and Cultural Resilience –
an Interview with the Feminist Author and Publisher Susan Hawthorne
This spring, I had the great pleasure to meet Susan Hawthorne, who was invited to Berlin by the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin and spoke on account of the publication of the German translation of her book “Bibliodiversity”, translated by Doris Hermanns and published by Verbrecher Verlag in March 2017 (link). In […] Read more
