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In Norway, YA Publishing Is On the Rise and 'Changing Fast'
With the young adult boom in full swing, Norwegian publisher and authors look to expand into the lucrative market.
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London Book Fair 2015: Decoding the Spanish Language Market
The Spanish language market is not the easiest one to break into. This highlights the importance of cultivating partnerships with international publishers.
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Greek Publishing Spotlight: An Agent's Perspective
Greek literary agent Evangelia Avloniti on how publishers in the economically embattled country are faring, fears of "Grexit" and why nonfiction has become so popular among Greeks.
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Debuts Top International Bestseller Lists
New titles dominated the top spots on bestseller lists across international markets in February.
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Four Questions for…Australian Agent Jenny Darling
We spoke with Darling about a new epic adventure she’ll be talking up at the London Book Fair, and how publishing is a "contact sport" in which it's more important than ever to maintain strong business relationships.
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Why Do English Language Pubs Lag on Translating Classics?
One of the greatest post-war Dutch novels, Gerard Reve's 'De Avonden' (or 'The Evenings'), which was originally published in 1947, is finally being translated into English. What took so long?
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Four Questions for…French Editor Caroline Ast
We spoke with the deputy editorial director at Paris-based Belfond about the importance of independent booksellers in her country, and the Irish debut novel she's publishing thanks a plug from to Colum McCann.
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HC Expands Spanish-Language Publishing Efforts
HarperCollins is creating two new Spanish-language publishing divisions: HarperCollins Español and HarperCollins Iberica.
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Plum Johnson Wins Canada's RBC Taylor Prize
Plum Johnson has won the C$25,000 RBC Taylor Prize, one of Canada’s top literary awards for nonfiction for her memoir, 'They Left Us Everything.'
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London's Calling for Foreign Pubs Who Want New Harper Lee
Andrew Nurnberg, the British agent who represents Lee, is taking an unusual approach to selling the foreign rights to her forthcoming novel, 'Go Set a Watchman.'
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Works In Translation: If They Publish Them, Will They Buy Them?
Tom Chalmers, managing director of IPR License, talks about some of the strongest markets for selling works in translation right now.
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Four Questions for...Italian Editor Giuseppe Strazzeri
We spoke with the editorial director of Longanesi Publishing about the problems with local price-cutting measures on books, and the debut by the "energetic and young" writer from Naples he's excited about publishing in May.
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First-Ever Canadian Authors for Indies Day Set for May
After hearing about the Indies First campaign in the U.S., Canadian author Janie Chang decided a similar initiative should be brought to Canada. The result is Canadian Authors for Indies Day, which will take place May 2, 2015.
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Houellebecq Ranks In France, Italy
New titles swept the top of France’s fiction bestseller list in January, led by Marc Levy’s "She and Him."
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Canadian Miniseries Boosts 'Book of Negroes'
The TV miniseries adaptation of Lawrence Hill’s award-winning novel is proving a major sales boost for the title, originally released in 2007.
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Behind the Peruvian Bestseller, 'The Distance That Sets Us Apart'
This novel about a famous Peruvian military leader has sold over 20,000 copies in Peru. In it, a well known journalist and author explores his father's legacy, grappling with difficult questions about whether his father was involved in state-sanctioned torture and murder.
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Native Tongues: Middle East Fiction in Translation: Middle East Books 2015
In an oft-cited statistic, Chad Post, publisher of Open Letter Books at the University of Rochester and an outspoken advocate for books in translation, estimates that 3% of fiction and poetry books published in the U.S. are translations.
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Audio: A Rights Market Heats Up
The rights marketplace has certainly seen 2015 begin with a bang and nowhere more so than through the glut of audiobook licensing deals being completed.
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Four Questions for…Kinneret Zmora's Ziv Lewis
We spoke with Ziv Lewis, foreign rights/acquisitions manager of Kinneret Zmora in Israel, about the difficulties of dealing with his country's new Fixed Price Law, the joy of reading 'Hebrish' and the 'game-changing' novel his house is releasing this year.
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Behind the Bestselling Danish Trilogy, the Missing Persons
Sara Blaedel's series about Louise Rick, a detective inspector on the hunt for a killer, has sold over 1.5 million copies in her native Denmark. It has also been optioned for TV in the U.S.