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Tag: Book Trade and Publishing
Filippo Bernardini, Accused of Stealing Book Manuscripts, Expected to Plead Guilty
Filippo Bernardini was arrested by the F.B.I. last year. He is expected to enter his plea on Friday, ending a yearslong saga that captivated the industry.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Leading Light in German Letters, Dies at 93
Poet, essayist, journalist and social critic, he held wide influence among a postwar literary generation with works as intellectual as they were political.
Hong Kong Sentences 5 Over ‘Seditious’ Children’s Books
Tales about a sheep village resisting a wolf pack prompted the charges against leaders of a speech therapists’ union, extending a government crackdown on dissent.
Salman Rushdie Attack Recalls Murder of His Japanese Translator
Hitoshi Igarashi, who translated “The Satanic Verses,” was fatally stabbed at a university near Tokyo where he taught Islamic culture. The crime remains unsolved.
After Mocking France’s Literary Elite, a Fraught Invite Into the Club
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, a Senegal-born writer, has won high praise and top prizes from Paris’s insular publishing establishment. But the novelist wonders: Is it an endorsement or “a way to silence me”?
Through a Recession and a Pandemic, the Book Business Is Thriving in Buenos Aires
The Argentine capital has always been bookish. When hard times shuttered the big chain shops, book purveyors found a way to keep residents in fresh reading material.
This Spanish Village Has More Booksellers Than School Pupils
Urueña, in northwestern Spain, has fought depopulation by reinventing itself as a literary hub. The full-time population is still just 100, but there are 11 shops selling books.
An Author Wrote About Her Sister’s Murder. It Led to a Breakthrough.
Cristina Rivera Garza wanted to shed light on the life of her sister, killed 30 years ago. Her book, part of a larger call for justice by women in Mexico, helped locate the suspect.
Black Authors Shake Up Brazil’s Literary Scene
Young Black Brazilians are publishing on their own terms, achieving the critical and commercial success that eluded past generations of writers from marginalized communities.