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 the digital & online sales team. Kyla Pigoni has been promoted to senior marketing manager at Amazon Publishing. Trevor Ketner has joined Ladderbird Literary Agency. Ketner is the publisher and founder of Skull + Wind Press. In the UK, Kris Doyle and Sophie Jonathan have […]
Awards
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 for The Blind Assassin.) “We’ve both got curly hair,” Atwood said in receiving the prize, indicated she was surprised, thinking she was “too elderly, and I don’t really need the attention. It would have been embarrassing if I was alone here,” she said to Evaristo. […]
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 controversial historical figure Jacob Frank, leader of a heretical Jewish splinter group that ranged the Habsburg and Ottoman empires and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth seeking basic safety as well as transcendence.” Croft writes for the Paris Review, “Considered by many to be her masterpiece, The Books of […]
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 the award for “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.” Tokarczuk won the 2018 Booker International for Flights, which was also a finalist for the National Book Award for translated literature. Her book Drive […]
National Book Award Finalists Announced
The National Book Awards announced its 2019 shortlists, with the winners to be named on November 20. The fiction list includes titles from Pulitzer finalists Susan Choi and Laila Lalami and Booker winner Marlon James, while the Young People’s Literature list includes previous finalists Jason Reynolds and Laura Ruby. Four out of five fiction titles are published by Penguin Random House. The complete lists: Fiction Susan Choi, Trust Exercise (Holt) Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina (One World) Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (Riverhead) Laila Lalami, The Other Americans (Pantheon) Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth (Knopf) Nonfiction Sarah M. Broom, The […]
People, Etc.
Kristin Gilson joins Aladdin as editorial director. She was most recently editorial director at Puffin. Lisa Moraleda has been promoted to senior director of publicity at Simon & Schuster Children’s, Margaret K. McElderry, Atheneum, and Beach Lane. Caitlin Sweeny moves up to director of marketing at Simon Pulse, Aladdin, Little Simon, and Simon Spotlight. Anna Jarzab has been promoted to director of digital at Simon & Schuster Children’s, and Kate Bouchard to digital and social marketing coordinator. At the Simon & Schuster imprint, Emily Simonson has been promoted to assistant editor. Matthew Sciarappa has been promoted to marketing coordinator for Little Bee Books. […]