France’s Prix Goncourt has gone to Atiq Rahimi’s STONE OF PATIENCE (Syngue Sabour), “the story of a woman whose husband suffers brain damage from a bullet wound” according to publisher Editions P.O.L. Born in Afghanistan in 1962, Rahimi fled to Pakistan in his 20s and then received asylum in France before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 after the ejection of the Taliban. The author (also a filmmaker) told French television, “All I can say is: I’m so happy that I’ll need many dictionaries, many encyclopedias to find the word or words, the expressions, to express this reaction.” In the US, […]
People: Hudson Joins Bertelsmann Board
Bertelsmann has named Random House UK deputy ceo Ian Hudson to the company’s Supervisory Board. He fills the slot vacated by Richard Sarnoff in May Manager of training and employee development for Random House Ann Weinerman will take over as chair of the AAP’s Diversity, Recruit & Retain Committee as Bridget Marmion moves over to chair the Trade Executive Committee.
Malcolm Gladwell: Mainstream "Outlier"
One title headed for the top of bestseller lists this season is Malcolm Gladwell’s forthcoming OUTLIERS, written in the same style as his previous works but with a more earnest focus. As he puts it: “This is very specifically not a self-help book. It’s a book that’s very much about collective and social organized change. I am explicitly turning my back on, I think, these kind of empty models that say, you know, you can be whatever you want to be. Well, actually, you can’t be whatever you want to be. The world decides what you can and can’t be. […]
Lunch Weekly for Monday, November 10
Deal Reports Just e-mail to deals@PublishersMarketplace if you aren’t using the online form linked below. Report a deal using the online form The Key As usual, the handy key to our Lunch deal categories. While all reports are always welcome, those that include a category will generally receive a higher listing when it comes time to put them all together. “nice deal” $1 – $49,000 “very nice deal” $50,000 – $99,000 “good deal” $100,000 – $250,000 “significant deal” $251,000 – $499,000 “major deal” $500,000 and up FICTION Debut Sujatha Hampton’s EVERMORE, the saga of a sprawling Indian-American family and […]
Turner's Book Lands
The AP went first this weekend with a story based on an advance copy of Ted Turner’s book CALL ME TED, landing this week. Turner says he wasn’t upset by former Jane Fonda’s conversion to Christianity; “he was upset because Fonda didn’t talk to him about it.” (He doesn’t mention “the infidelities alleged against him by the Academy Award-winning actress.”) In reviewing his career, “he still insists he was ‘fired’ by Gerald Levin in the wake of Time Warner’s 2000 merger with AOL, and Levin, allowed to offer his side, still denies it (They no longer speak, Levin adds, regretfully).”AP […]
Collins and WSJ Announce Partnership
The Collins Group has announced a three-year publishing partnership with their corporate News Corp. sibling at the Wall Street Journal “to develop books written by the Journal’s expert editors and reporters across a variety of topics for a wide range of readers.” Collins group president Steve Ross had previously published a line of WSJ books when he was publisher at Crown. HarperCollins ceo Brian Murray notes in the release, “Through this partnership we will build a branded list of guides from the editors of the Journal and enduring narratives from The Wall Street Journal reporters that will stand the test […]