Publishers Lunch

Awards
R.L. Stine is the winner of the Chicago Tribune Young Adult Literary Award.

The Paris Review's Plimpton Prize for Fiction honoring a new voice published in the magazine goes to David Szalay for his novellas Youth and Lascia Amor e siegui Marte, and their Terry Southern Prize ("recognizing humor, wit, and sprezzatura") goes to Chris Bachelder for his novel The Throwback Special.

Obituary
Booker Prize-winning author of Hotel Du Lac and 23 other novels Anita Brookner, 87, died on March 10. A notice in the Times indicated she had asked not to have a funeral.

Initiatives
NetGalley has launched its service in German at Netgalley.de, as previously announced last October. The platform is a collaboration between NetGalley and vorablesen.de.

Distribution
Penguin Random House India will distribute Pushkin Press in the Indian subcontinent as of April 1.