| Siddhartha Mukherjee Wins Pulitzer Prize Winner 2011 |
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| Siddhartha Mukherjee, a Delhi-born cancer specialist doctor won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize. Mukherjee won this prize in general non-fiction category & become the fourth person of Indian origin to get the... Details |
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| The London Book Fair Announces Market Focus 2012: China |
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| The London Book Fair and the General Administration for Press and Publication (GAPP) have marked China as the Market Focus partner of The London Book Fair 2012 at an official signing event attended by... Details |
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| Could you make it up? Phone hacking in literature |
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| As the story of the scandal becomes ever more incredible, John Crace looks to fiction for some precedents
Plot twist after plot twist. Smokescreen after smokescreen. Resignation after resignation. Over... Details |
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| Diversity Rules at GABBS Boston |
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| Attendance at last week's Great American Bargain Book Show was down about 8%, something founder Larry May attributed to a weak retail market. Still, the number of exhibitors stayed just about the same... Details |
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| Delhi Book Fair 2011 |
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| The Delhi Book Fair 2011, beginning at the Pragati Maidan here Aug 27 and will continue upto 4th Sept'11. It will have travel and tourism as its theme, with a special focus on children’s literature and... Details |
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| Wikileaks reveals conversations over Assange memoir |
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| Julian Assange's literary agent and PFD m.d. Caroline Michel accused publisher Canongate of going "to war" with her client and "feeding the media myth" over how the Independent reported the publication... Details |
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| Science book deals at Frankfurt |
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| Popular science writer Simon Singh has accepted a six-figure world English language rights pre-empt made at Frankfurt by Bloomsbury for a book about mathematics and the long-running US TV hit "The Simpsons".
The... Details |
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| Julian Barnes wins the Man Booker |
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| Julian Barnes has won the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sense of an Ending (Cape). The author beat a shortlist comprising Carol Birch's Jamrach's Menagerie (Canongate); Esi Edugyan's Half Blood Blues... Details |
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| Jobs biog sells 379,000 copies Stateside |
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| Walter Isaacson's biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs sold 379,000 copies in the US in its first week on bookshop shelves, BookScan US data has revealed.
The $35 publication, published by Simon... Details |
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| Angry Robot to launch YA imprint |
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| Sci-fi and fantasy specialist Angry Robot is setting up a YA imprint, Strange Chemistry, with genre blogger Amanda Rutter appointed editor.
The imprint will launch in September 2012, with five titles... Details |
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| Vertebrate signs Boardman Tasker winner |
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| Vertebrate Publishing has snapped up Canadian author Bernadette McDonald’s Freedom Climbers, winner of the 2011 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature.
Vertebrate publishing manager John Coefield... Details |
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| RH Canada acquires entirety of McClelland & Stewart |
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| Random House Canada has become the sole owner of trade publishing house McClelland & Stewart, acquiring the 75% of the business it did not already own from the University of Toronto.
RHC will maintain... Details |
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| DSC Prize Longlist for 2012 |
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| Omair Ahmad: Jimmy the Terrorist (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin India)
U.R. Ananthamurthy: Bharathipura (Oxford University Press, India, Translated by Susheela Punitha)
Chandrakanta: A Street in Srinagar... Details |
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| Bloomsbury acquires memoir from ghetto survivor |
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| Bloomsbury has acquired a memoir written from the perspective of a child survivor of the ghetto in Przemysl, established during the Second World War in Nazi-occupied Poland. The story of "courage and hope"... Details |
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| 'Indian publishers alien to book copyrights' |
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| A copyright selling company of books which put up a stall at the World Book Fair for the first time in Delhi, was amazed to notice the ignorance among Indian publishers regarding the concept of buying... Details |
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| New Safran Foer to Penguin |
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| Penguin has acquired the new novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, called Escape From Children's Hospital, with the story born out of a real event which happened to the author when he was nine.
Hamish Hamilton... Details |
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| Pearson acquires Certiport |
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| Pearson has acquired professional testing company Certiport, paying $140m in cash for the US company from Spire Capital Partners.
The company is a provider of foundation-level certification programmes... Details |
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