Digital Solutions in India, 2013
Our complete 2013 print and online supplement on digital solutions in India. more...International Titles Finding New Ways into the U.S.
According to the University of Rochester’s translation database, 413 translated works of fiction and poetry were released in 2012, up from 370 the previous year. more...cookbooks and more. Sign up here!
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Book News
Mysteries, Exposés Dominate Europe
Roberto Saviano’s ZeroZeroZero, an examination of the cocaine trade, debuted at #1 in his native Italy in April, knocking another famous Italian writer, Andrea Camilleri, from #1 to #5.
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Book News
International Titles Finding New Ways into the U.S.
According to the University of Rochester’s translation database, 413 translated works of fiction and poetry were released in 2012, up from 370 the previous year.
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Book NewsA ‘Perfect’ American Novel Strikes Gold Overseas
Why isn’t this book more famous?” asked the writer C.P. Snow about John Williams’s Stoner in 1973, eight years after it was first published by Viking Press.
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Book News
‘Stoner’ Finds Overseas Success
The most surprising bestseller in international markets in March was in the Netherlands, where John Williams’s classic novel Stoner reached #1.
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London Book Fair
London Book Fair 2013: Defining the New Role for Literary Agents
The specific question at a late day panel on the Tuesday of the London Book Fair was not about whether literary agents matter, but about their future.
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London Book Fair
London Book Fair 2013: Young Debut Authors Fetch Big Advances
It was all about young, debut authors at this year’s London Book Fair. Some of the most talked-about books were by writers whose own back stories were as talked about as the books they sold.
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London Book Fair
London Book Fair 2013: New Agency, Resolution, Makes Appearance
Jeffrey Berg’s new agency is still young, but it’s looking to the future and, to that end, had a presence at this year’s London Book Fair.
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London Book Fair
London Book Fair 2013: New Swedish Agency Touts Local Thriller
In a buy before the London Book Fair officially got underway, Laura Tisdel at Little, Brown bought world English rights, in conjunction with Ed Wood at Sphere in the U.K., to Chain of Events, a Swedish thriller that’s being shopped by a new agency.
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London Book Fair
The London Book Fair Show Daily Day 3: April 17, 2013
Keep up with all the day 3 goings-on at the 2013 London Book Fair with the complete PW Show Daily.
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London Book Fair
London Book Fair 2013: Dealing Starts Early
The dealing started early at this year’s London Book Fair with a number of titles drawing interest from multiple houses. Among the deals that closed, Simon & Schuster bought a debut novel for seven-figures and, just before the fair opened, paid six-figures for a nonfiction work by a hedge fund founder. There was also lots of interest from around the world in a debut novel by a young British novelist.
