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China Publishing Group vice-president Jiang Jun has said it is
“business as usual” for the publishing house in acquiring foreign rights,
despite recent reports that a cap has been placed on the number of overseas
children's picture books Chinese houses can bring out.
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In the Mire, the
atmospheric Swedish debut which prompted a Europe-wide
frenzy for rights at last week's London Book Fair, has been snapped up
by Hodder & Stoughton after a three-way auction.
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Jacob Ross has won the inaugural Jhalak Prize for Book of
the Year by a Writer of Colour for his crime novel The Bone Readers (Peepal
Tree).
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The Mainstreet Trading Company’s Rosamund de la Hey has been
re-elected at the Booksellers Association president for a second year.
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The six-strong shortlist for this year’s £30,000 Sunday Times EFG Short
Story Award includes British writer and poet Richard Lambert and Irish
writer Sally Rooney.
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Nobel laureate prizewinning poet “gentle giant” Derek Walcott
has died aged 87 at his home in St Lucia after a long illness.
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W H Smith is celebrating its 225th anniversary year with a
classic ‘yellowback’ book collection similar to the ones sold in the
mid-1800s by the retailer.
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Leaf Arbuthnot, author of An Unmaimed Man, has won Tibor Jones'
2017 Pageturner Prize for unpublished novels.
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The Royal Society of Literature has elected Marina Warner as
its first female president.
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Author and broadcaster Anne Robinson is to chair the David
Vaisey Prize, a new £5,000 award launched to recognise an
"oustanding" Gloucestershire library initiative.
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