News
- You’ve just missed the window for the Iskanchi Book Prize. Open to emerging and established African writers anywhere in the world. Prize is publication of a full-length MS and $1,500! Maybe next year?
- The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa, one of my favourite novels, is coming to the big screen. I’m not completely sure how I feel about that, but Lily Gladstone will be in it. Ogawa’s next book is *The Museum of Silence,* from Pantheon.
- From Brittle Paper: a poem by Mariama Ba has been rediscovered, and was published here.
- Lots of new deals for children’s books, including Diana Anyakwo’s My Life as a Chameleon for the North American market.
- John Banville’s next book is The Drowned and will be published by Faber. He wrote, if you didn’t know, the amazing The Sea, which won the 2005 Booker Prize. If you like literary fic and you haven’t read it, get it!
- Vanessa Kisuule’s non-fiction debut, Neverland, will be published by Canongate in July 2024.
- Fantagraphics have called for an end to Israel’s war on Gaza.
- Here’s a list from ArabLit and thread from Words Without Borders of short stories from Palestine.
- Another Palestinian read: a new book, My Brother My Land, from Sami Hermez.
- Zines, books and more from Palestine.
- Here’s a thread of upcoming releases from Seagull Books and Wakefield Press.
- Vanderbilt University has launched the Global Black Writers in Translation series. The Global Black Writers in Translation series will publish a variety of texts by authors of African descent translated from their source languages into English. The goal is to amplify a body of writing that introduces anglophone readers to the range and complexity of Black literary and cultural production, history, and political thought. Series editors will be Vanessa K. Valdés (CCNY), Annette Joseph-Gabriel (DUke) and Nathan H. Dize (WUSTL).
- Yuval Harari’s Nexus will be published by Fern Press in September 2024.
- Elizabeth Strout’s next book, Tell Me Everything, will be published by Viking books on September 19, 2024.
- Here’s the cover reveal from Carnelian Heart Publishing for Primrose Chindundundu’s children’s book, How Zebra Got Her Stripy Coat.
- Paolo Bacigalupi also did a reveal of the gorgeous cover of his next novel, Navola.
- And Akwaeke Emezi did a cover reveal for their novel, Little Rot, out in June.
- Do you enjoy cover reveals?
- The 2023 Palestine Book Award winners were announced; link here.