Alysia Shewchuk has been promoted to senior designer at House of Anansi Press. Caroline Hayes has left Barnes & Noble, where she was most recently manager, cataloging and metadata. She may be reached at carolineahayes@gmail.com. Sarah Crichton will leave her position as publisher of Sarah Crichton Books at FSG at the end of this year. She…
Awards
Briefs: Tokarczuk Wins The Booker International, and More
Awards Flights by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft, won the Booker International Prize. (Riverhead is scheduled to publish in the US on August 24.) Initiatives Hachette Book Group has launched an online community for mystery and thriller fans, Novel Suspects. “The centerpiece will be the very best books in the genre–from HBG as well as…
People, Etc.: Roth Dies at 85
Philip Roth, 85, died Tuesday night in a New York hospital of congestive heart failure. The NYT calls him “the prolific, protean, and often blackly comic novelist who was a pre-eminent figure in 20th-century literature…. Mr. Roth was the last of the great white males: the triumvirate of writers — Saul Bellow and John Updike…
People, Etc.
Liz Stein has moved over to the William Morrow group as senior editor. Previously she was with Park Row Books. Rachel Crawford joins Naval Institute Press as production editor. She was most recently production editor/coordinator for Springer Nature. Awards The SFWA announced the Nebula Award winners over the weekend, with NK Jemisin‘s The Stone Sky awarded…
People, Etc.
Penguin Random House Australia conducted “a review of our structure ” and found they “no longer require the role of publishing director-Penguin Random House Literary” (comprising Hamish Hamilton, Vintage, Knopf, Viking and Penguin). As a result, Penguin veteran Ben Ball has left the company. The team for the Literary division (created last year) will now…
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Samantha Fabien has joined Laura Dail Literary Agency as international rights manager. Former associate publishing manager at Viking Children’s Leila Sales has relocated to Austin, TX, where she will continue to edit select projects on Viking’s list, along with working on other editorial and writing projects. Awards The British Book Awards were presented on Monday, honoring…