The inaugural rights center at Nairobi International Book Fair featured B2B meetings and an issue-driven panel discussion.
Nairobi International Book Fair: Publishers’ Viewpoints
African publishers at Nairobi International Book Fair look at market challenges: the desire to produce fiction and local-language literature.
Frankfurt Fellowships: Karla Kutzner of Germany’s InterKontinental
A Frankfurt-Paris Fellow, Karla Kutzner is the founder of Berlin’s InterKontinental press with a bookstore and literature festival.
Cassava Republic: A $30,000 Nonfiction Prize for Black Women
Bibi Bakare-Yusuf’s new nonfiction award for Black women writers offers a contract and advance to the author of an unpublished manuscript.
Winners in the South Africa Book Awards: Voted for by Booksellers
The SA Book Awards program bases its shortlist on the bestseller date of Nielsen BookScan in a program now 23 years old.
Nairobi International Book Fair Introduces Rights Trading
The 24th edition of Kenya’s Nairobi International Book Fair this year adds a ‘Rights Café’ for business meetings and networking.
Rights Roundup: Warming Up for Frankfurt Book Fair
Titles in this Frankfurt-bound Rights Roundup include work originally published in New Zealand, Taiwan, South Korea, the United States, France, and Norway.
Nigeria’s Aké Festival Wins First Aficionado Award
A project of the Frankfurt Book Fair and Torino Book Fair, the first Aficionado Award goes to Lola Shoneyin and her Aké Arts and Book Festival
British Independent Publisher HopeRoad Opens Fundraising Appeal
London’s 13-year-old HopeRoad Publishing, focused on Caribbean, African, and Asian work, announces it’s having cash-flow struggles.
At Torino’s Book Fair in Italy: The Aficionado Award
Three inaugural shortlistees are to be honored at Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino in the new Aficionado Award program.