Paul Baggaley will leave Picador after 11 years as publisher to become editor-in-chief for adult publishing at Bloomsbury UK early 2020, reporting to Emma Hopkin. Current EIC Alexandra Pringle will move up to executive publisher. Caitlin Meyer has been promoted to associate publicity director at Beacon Press. Catherine Cho will join the Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency…
Awards
Morgenstern’s The Starless Sea Tops November Library Reads
Erin Morgenstern’s The Starless Sea is the top pick for November’s Library Reads. Also on the list are The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams and Not the Girl You Marry by Andie J. Christopher, both excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2019 Romance sampler. The rest of the list: The Deep, by…
People, Etc.
Christopher Richards and Will Heyward have both been promoted to senior editor at Penguin Press. Leslie Cohen has been promoted to senior production manager, production services, at Chronicle Books. Elizabeth Breeden has been promoted to senior marketing manager at Simon & Schuster. At Simon & Schuster, Henna Cho has been promoted to sales associate on…
Booker Prize Awarded to Both Atwood and Evaristo
The Booker Prize judges broke with the award’s firm policy and jointly conferred this year’s award on two novels: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood and Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo. Evaristo is the first black woman to win the prize, and at 79 Atwood is the oldest winner. (Atwood won the award in 2000…
Nobel: English Version of Tokarczuk’s “Masterpiece” In the Works, PEN America Denounces Handke Awards
Nobel winner Olga Tokarczuk’s THE BOOKS OF JACOB will be published in English in late 2020 or early 2021 by Riverhead, again translated by Jennifer Croft, translator of FLIGHTS. Croft is still at work on the roughly 900-page book, winner of Poland’s Nike Literature Award in 2015, “delves into the life and times of the…
Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke Awarded Nobel Literature Prizes
The Swedish Academy announced that Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk is the winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature, and Austrian writer Peter Handke is the winner of the 2019 prize. They did not select a winner last year after a sexual misconduct scandal within the academy in 2017. The academy says Tokarczuk, 57, won…