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Shining a spotlight on the art of translation

Feb 11 2022: Jennifer Croft, who translates the Nobel Prize-winning Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk, is leading a push for her peers and their work to receive more recognition.

Olga Tokarczuk's “Flights” was a labor of love for Croft, who spent a decade trying to find a publisher ...

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Texas book ban prompts school librarians to launch #FReadom Fighters

Feb 09 2022: In response to Texas Rep. Matt Krause’s published list of 850 books on race and sexuality that he targeted for their subject matter —many of which were pulled from school library shelves—a group of Texas school librarians has decided to push back. Last November, they ...

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Oscar nominations based on books

Feb 09 2022: The Power of the Dog and Dune led the nominations for the 94th Academy Awards, which featured several movies based on books or with book connections.

Other book related films nominated in at least one category include:

Drive My Car, based on a short story by Haruki ...

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Publishers, agencies start receiving subpoenas as DoJ-PRH case ramps

Feb 01 2022: As Penguin Random House and the Department of Justice continue to prepare for an August trial in which PRH hopes to block the government’s effort to kill its acquisition of Simon & Schuster, professionals throughout the industry are finding themselves pulled into the ...

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Wordle bought by New York Times

Feb 01 2022: The inventor of word game sensation Wordle has spoken of being overwhelmed by its success, following a sale to the New York Times.

Software engineer Josh Wardle released the free simple online game in October, and has now sold it for an undisclosed seven-figure sum. ...

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BookTok giving bookshops a boost not seen since Rowling

Jan 31 2022: BookTok is seeing more young people embrace reading than ever before, translating into shops “full of teenagers and young adults” in a trend not seen since the heyday of J K Rowling and Harry Potter, according to Waterstones m.d. and Barnes & Noble c.e.o. James Daunt......

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Tennessee school board bans Pulitzer prize-winning Holocaust novel, Maus

Jan 27 2022: A Tennessee school board has banned a Pulitzer prize-winning novel from its classrooms over eight curse words and an illustration of a naked cartoon mouse.

The graphic novel, Maus: A Survivor’s Tale by New Yorker Art Spiegelman, uses hand-drawn illustrations of mice ...

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U.S. book sales up 12% in 2021

Jan 27 2022: Total net book sales in 2021 in the U.S. rose 12.2%, to $15.4 billion, compared to 2020, representing sales of 1,369 publishers and distributed clients as reported to the Association of American Publishers. In December, total net book sales were up 2.8%, to $1.1 billion...

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