At a lunchless lunchtime presentation at the London Book Fair today, longtime Knopf Publishing Group chairman and editor-in-chief Sonny Mehta was honored with the LBF’s Lifetime Achievement Award in International Publishing. In accepting the honor, Mehta said: “My own view is that awards should be given to writers, not publishers, so today I want to celebrate the writers I’ve had a hand in publishing, recognize the agents who brought their works to me, and trumpet the heroic efforts of my colleagues, first at Pan and Picador, and now at Knopf and Doubleday.” More broadly, Mehta suggested that “the universality and […]