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Mixed Book News: Summer, Autumn, Winter

18. December 2021Gesa StedmanColumn, Controversies, Events, News, Overview, Prizes, Reviewbibliodiversity, book fair, booker prize, climate change, racism, representation, Review

Gesa Stedman looks at recent and not quite so recent prize winners, Frankfurt book fair debates, special issues on disability and LGTBQI+ respectively, published by The Bookseller, and wonders where climate change has disappeared to – again. Read more

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Book News April 2020

27. April 2020Gesa StedmanAllgemein, Column, News, Overviewbooker prize, indie bookshops, publishing, reading, translation; distribution; Nibbies; imprint;, Women in Publishing

Gesa Stedman rounds up the most recent news from the literary field in the UK and in Germany, from Corona-affected bookshops Read more

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Book News – The Latest Developments from the Literary Field

28. February 2020Gesa StedmanAllgemein, Controversies, Initiative, News, Prizesactivism, bibliodiversity, booker prize, Brexit, prizes, representation

Gesa Stedman rounds up the most important news from the literary field from in-house audio production to more or less Read more

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Racism and the Booker Prize: Bernadine Evaristo is not “the other author”!

21. December 2019Gesa StedmanControversies, News, PrizesBernardine Evaristo, bibliodiversity, booker prize, racism, representation, stereotypes

While it was already doubtful whether Bernadine Evaristo as the first black woman ever to win The Booker Prize Read more

Bernardine Evaristo wins the 2019 Booker Prize

15. October 2019Sandra van LenteNews, PrizesBernardine Evaristo, booker prize

Bernardine Evaristo won the 2019 Booker Prize! Yesterday, on the evening of 14th October 2019, the Booker Prize judges announced that they awarded the prize to both Bernardine Evaristo and Margaret Atwood. My first reaction was an outburst of joy (and a little dance in front of my phone) – […] Read more

Literary Field Kaleidoscope | summer reading | Sandra van Lente

Summer Time

29. July 2019Sandra van LenteNews#namethetranslator, booker prize, Charlott Schönwetter, longlist, summer break, WITmonth

Dear readers, We’re going to take a break over the summer and hope you’ll be back for our next post in the fall. You can sign up on the bottom of the page to receive an email whenever a new post goes online. In case you’re still looking for more […] Read more

Interview with former Booker Prize judge Valentine Cunningham

26. January 2016Gesa StedmanInterview, Prizesbooker prize, interview

Gesa Steman interviewed former Booker Prize judge Valentine Cunningham on the judging process, the reading load, the ceremony and the opening towards American writers. Read more

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