• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Login
  • Register

Publishers Lunch

The Publishing Industry's Daily Essential Read

  • Publishers Marketplace
  • Site Guide
  • Help

People, Etc.

April 21, 2017
By Erin Somers

Stephany Evans has joined Ayesha Pande Literary as an agent, where she’ll continue to represent her list of adult fiction and nonfiction. Previously, she was a principal at FinePrint Literary Management.

At Chronicle Books, Jeff Wiebe has been promoted to director of operations; Sarah Billingsley has been promoted to executive editor of food and lifestyle; and Lauren Lubell has been promoted to industrial designer.

Awards
The Booker International Prize has announced its six-title shortlist:

Mathias Enard, Compass, translated by Charlotte Mandell (Norton/Fitzcarraldo Editions)
David Grossman, A Horse Walks Into a Bar, translated by Jessica Cohen (Knopf/Jonathan Cape)
Roy Jacobsen, The Unseen, translated by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw (Maclehose)
Dorthe Nors, Mirror, Shoulder, Signal, translated by Misha Hoekstra (Pushkin Press)
Amos Oz, Judas, translated by Nicholas de Lange (HMH/Chatto & Windus)
Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream, translated by Megan McDowell (Riverhead/Oneworld)

Twelve winners of the European Union Prize for Literature were announced including, from the UK (which will be ineligible for the prize post Brexit), author of The Year of Runaways Sunjeev Sahota.

Filed Under: Free, Personnel

sidebar

Primary Free Sidebar

Login


Forgot password
Quick Pass users click here to log in
Get Full Access
The publishing industry's essential daily read

Each Publishers Lunch Deluxe subscription includes full access to our searchable multi-year archive of industry news, a nightly email reporting 10 to 50 deal transactions, and our database of industry contacts, scripts, and posting privileges.

Learn More

RSS Automat

  • Dublin Literary Award Shortlist Announced March 30, 2023 Prize site
  • Leigh Bardugo Signs with WME for Film/TV Representation March 29, 2023 Variety
  • Solid State Books Workers Announce Plans to Unionize March 28, 2023 Union website
  • Following Sale, America's Test Kitchen Lays Off 23 Employees, Including All of ATK Kids Staff March 28, 2023 Union instagram post
  • Acquire and Fire: Hachette UK In Consultations to Eliminate About Half the Staff of Welbeck March 28, 2023 Bookseller
  • Jefferson, de Kretser Win Folio Prizes March 27, 2023 Prize announcement
  • Harper UK Edits Agatha Christie Novels to Remove "Offensive" Language March 27, 2023 The Guardian
  • NYU Launches Five-Day "Advanced Publishing Institute" Program for January 2024 March 25, 2023 NYU site
  • Hachette UK to Publish "Spare Us!" Parody on April 6 March 23, 2023 Publisher site
  • Netflix to Stream Series Based on Ramit Sethi's Book, "How to Get Rich" March 23, 2023 THR
© 2023 Publishers Lunch. All Rights Reserved.