Category: Awards
India’s Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi Honoured with the 2024 Asom Prakashan Parishad Literary Award
Thongchi’s recognition by the Asom Prakashan Parishad highlights the rich tapestry of Indian literature and underscores the importance of regional literary contributions on the global stage.
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Galician Poet Chus Pato Wins 2024 Spanish National Poetry Prize
Chus Pato’s works have been widely translated and published abroad, including in Argentina, Chile, Portugal, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Russia, France, and Belgium. One cannot help but notice no English-language countries make the list.
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Japanese laureate deals fatal blow to notion that AI will never write as well as a human
A book part-written by AI has won a prestigious literary award. A fatal blow to the AI Resistance, but also a whole load of trouble for lawmakers and AI regulators who thought they had the topic nailed.
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Nationality debates tilts an already uneven Booker Prize playing field
In other words, an author of immense talent who chooses to go direct to the consumer has zero...
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Congratulations to Storytel and B-Reel, both shortlisted for the One Show and Webby Awards
Books – in whatever format – need to get noticed to sell, and audiobooks, which tend...
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TNPS on LinkedIn – Round-up #5
With so much publishing industry news and debate, there’s never time for TNPS to cover it all. But...
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Storytel Awards attract 200,000 votes as audiobook fan engagement soars to record levels
Happening since 2015, the Storytel Awards grow in stature each year. Beyond the invaluable...
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TNPS on LinkedIn – a round-up
With so much publishing industry news and debate, there’s never time for TNPS to cover it...
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India – JCB Prize for Literature announces 2022’s longlist
Titles in Urdu, Hindi, and Nepali have been featured in the longlist for the first time....
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French-Moroccan novelist Leïla Slimani will chair 2023 International Booker Prize
At a time when many literary awards seems to be endangered species, it’s great to see the...
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The classic chicken and egg publishing problem the Nordics know the solution to
It wasn’t so very long ago when there was no audiobook market in the Nordics. The reason was...
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Ayobami Adebayo’s “Reste Avec Moi” is Prix Les Afriques 2020 winner
The winning novel, Reste Avec Moi, was first published in English under the title Stay with me...
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