Publishers Lunch
Now that Penguin Random House owns all of
the Spanish-language company founded and still operating as Random House
Mondadori, they are taking the logical step of renaming the unit. It will be
called Penguin Random
House Grupo Editorial. Additionally, the group's Literatura Mondadori
imprint will change its name to Literatura Random House. Aside from the new
names, there are no other changes at the division, which remains under the
leadership of ceo Núria Cabutí.
She says in the announcement, "Today we
begin our life as Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, bringing with us the
fantastic legacy of our history in Spanish-language publishing and the pride of
being part of the first truly global trade publishing company. We will continue
to publish with passion a wide array of authors, and our priority will be to
continue to grow as both a print and digital publisher."
Laura Ferguson
will join Open Road Media later this month as vp, special markets. Previously,
she was director of premium, corporate and customer driven publishing at Simon
& Schuster.
Emily Keyes has
joined Foreword Literary as an agent. Previously she was an agent at the L.
Perkins Agency.
French spy novelist Gerard de Villiers,
83, died
Thursday in Paris of pancreatic cancer. De Villiers was the author of 200 novels
featuring CIA contractor Malko Linge, the first appearing in 1964 and the last
published in France last month. Five of his novels will be published by Vintage
beginning in 2014, which marks the first major launch of his fiction in English
in the US and Canada.
Pierre Lemaitre
has won
France's most top literary award, the Prix
Goncourt, for his World War I epic Au Revoir Là-Haut. Quercus recently
introduced Lemaitre to English-speaking audiences with ALEX,
part of a projected trilogy (excerpted in our free Publishers Lunch Buzz Books
Fall/Winter free
ebook).
The shortlist was announced for the UK's
biggest nonfiction award, the Samuel
Johnson Prize:
Margaret
Thatcher: The Authorised Biography, Charles Moore
Under Another Sky, Charlotte Higgins
The Pike, Lucy Hughes-Hallett
A Sting In The Tale by Dave Goulson
Empires of the Dead: How One Man's Vision Led to the Creation of WW1's War Graves, David Crane
Return of a King, William Dalrymple
Under Another Sky, Charlotte Higgins
The Pike, Lucy Hughes-Hallett
A Sting In The Tale by Dave Goulson
Empires of the Dead: How One Man's Vision Led to the Creation of WW1's War Graves, David Crane
Return of a King, William Dalrymple
In other awards news, Goodreads is
conducting the "opening
round" of public voting for their Best Books of 2013.
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