Spotify takes its premium subscribers the option to buy 15 hours of extra audiobook listening time as a monthly add-on.
Spotify Opens French and Dutch Audiobook Production
Touting an investment of €1 million, Spotify builds on its French and Benelux audiobook operations to open a new production initiative.
The International Booker Prize Names Its 2025 Longlist
An ‘unconventional longlist’ opens the International Booker Prize’s cycle: authors and translators of 15 nationalities on five continents.
The Albertine Translation Prize Honors Two 2024 Award Winners
Eve Hill-Agnus and Gregory Elliott are the winners of the 2024 Albertine Translation Prize for French-to-English translation.
Translation: ALTA’s 2024 Winners in Prose and Poetry
Translations from French and Italian, by Cole Swenson and Jamie Richards respectively, win ALTA’s 2024 National Translation Awards.
Purses Totaling £28,000: The UK’s 2024 Translation Prize Winners
This year’s Society of Authors Translation Prizes honor literary translation into English from Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, French, Spanish, Arabic, and German.
The French-American Foundation’s 2023 Translation Prize Winners
The French-American Foundation’s Translation Prize is in its 36th year, and has three winners from its two categories of fiction and nonfiction.
The £50,000 International Booker Prize’s 2023 Longlist
Announcing its 2023 longlist of novels written in 11 languages, the International Booker Prize shares its sales impact on last year’s winner.
The Society of Authors: 2023 Translation Prize Winners
The Society of Authors names its 2023 winning translators of work from Arabic, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, and Spanish.
Beyrouth Livres: A First Staging in a Troubled Market
The new iteration of the francophone book fair in Beirut was designed ‘to have the author meet the public’ in beleaguered Lebanon.