Olivia Taussig has joined Viking Penguin as publicist. Previously she was a publicist at Other Press.
Yanni Kuznia has been promoted to managing editor and chief operating officer of Subterranean Press.
The Savannah Book Festival has hired Kim Bockius-Suwyn as its new executive director.
Rotraut Susanne Berner of Germany and Cao Wenxuan of China were named as the winners of the 2016 Hans Christian Andersen Award.