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Book News Spring and Summer 2022

23. August 2022Gesa StedmanAllgemein, digitisation, Initiative, News, Overview, Prizes, receptiondiversity, prizes, publishing, representation, UK

Gesa Stedman rounds up the news, from defunct as well as new literary prizes to delivery crises, slow successes in the North to the huge impact of TikTok on publishing. Read more

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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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Summer Break!

27. July 2020Sandra van LenteInitiative, News, Prizes#WiT, AKO Caine Prize for African Writing, Have you read...?, summer break, WITmonth

Dear readers, We hope this last post before the break finds you healthy and safe. We look forward to a wee break and shall be back with new posts in due time. Two more recommendations before we go: August is Women in Translation Month, founded six years ago by blogger […] Read more

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Book News for May and June 2020

9. July 2020Gesa StedmanBookshop, Controversies, News, Overview, Prizes, Statisticsbibliodiversity, bookselling, diversity, Jhalak Prize, publishing, representation

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

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

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Fire and Fury – The (British) Literary Field in 2018

2. March 2019Gesa StedmanAllgemein, News, Overview, Prizesgenre; sales; prizes; literary field

Gesa Stedman takes a look back at trends and developments which dominated the literary field in the UK in 2018. While non-fiction was on the up, fiction was less important Read more

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Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival

30. July 2018GuestEvents, News, PrizesAgatha Christie, crime fiction, Denise Mina, Harrogate, literature festival, New Blood, Scandi Noir, Val McDermid

The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival took place in Harrogate from 19-22 July 2018. Lynn Parkinson reports from North Yorkshire for the Literary Field Kaleidoscope. Read more

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Jhalak Prize for Reni Eddo-Lodge’s Why I No Longer Talk to White People about Race

18. March 2018Gesa StedmanControversies, News, Prizesbibliodiversity, Jhalak Prize, racism, writers of colour

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

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