The Indian writer Arundhati Roy, who won the Booker Prize in 1997 with The God of Small Things, has been awarded the Pen Pinter Prize 2024 for her “unparalleled contribution to literature”. She will receive the award in at a ceremony at the British Library in London in October. The announcement comes weeks after officials […]
The desk of the writer Dr Samuel Johnson is to be returned to his former London home for the first time in more than 260 years. But it has emerged that its owner is now uncertain whether it really is the desk of the famous 18th Century dictionary author. It’s been suggested that despite many […]
The US Authors Guild has announced a partnership with a new grassroots organisation called Authors Against Book Bans (AABB) to mobilise authors and illustrators in the fight against the growing number of book bans and challenges across the US. Founded by bestselling and award-winning children’s and young adult authors David Levithan, Andrea Davis Pinkney, […]
Più Libri Più Liberi, Italy 4 – 8 December Più libri is the first Italian fair dedicated exclusively to independent publishing where every year around 500 publishers, coming from all over Italy, present their news and their catalog to the public. Website:...
Paraty International Literary Festival (FLIP), Brazil Website: https://www.flip.org.br/
Sharjah International Book Fair, UAE 3 to 17 Nov Website: https://sibf.com/en/home
