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Giménez-Bartlett wins La Baccante award at the Women's Fiction Festival.
(Sept 26) The Women's Fiction Festival is held in Matera, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, every September. This year the festival highlighted mysteries, thrillers and suspense novels. -
Missive from Three Lives & Company, New York
(Sept 5) Unusually some publishers are as popular as individual books with Three Lives' clientele. "We have customers coming in and asking, 'What did New York Review publish recently?' " said... -
Stunning Success of Jane Gardam's Old Filth
After little more than a month on the shelves, Jane Gardam's Old Filth goes to a second printing. Critics and readers have lauded the British author's latest novel, which M.A. Orthofer from the Philadelphia... -
Med Noir finds a home away from home in the US
Last month, the Boston Phoenix ran a full page article on the Mediterranean Noir movement, and Mystery Readers Journal, after the success of its first issue on the same theme, devoted a second issue to... -
Erlbruch wins Andersen Award for Illustration
The Jury of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) has named Wolf Erlbruch winner of the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration. The award will be presented at the... -
Europa Editions and Jean-Claude Izzo featured on NPR's The World
The first installment of the acclaimed Marseilles trilogy, Total Chaos is a dark novel that explores the intersections of law and order, love and death, immigrant experience and the challenges to tradition... -
Monday, January 23 at 6pm
The Italian Cultural Institute in New York hosts a presentation of The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein) with film director Roberto Faenza, translator Ann Goldstein... -
LA Weekly sings the praises of Europa Editions
Tough Guys, Effete Snobs and Mad Women Introducing Europa Editions In the late 1960s, American publisher Kent Carroll was visiting French West Africa when he noticed something strange going on. A... -
Publishers Weekly Talk of the Trade is... Europa Editions
Europa Editions, helmed by Carroll and Graf co-founder Kent Carroll, has its first indie bestseller, Elena Ferrante's Days of Abandonment, thanks to good reviews in the New York Times and the New Yorker. A... -
Found In Translation
For a lot of readers (myself, all too often, included), the phrase “novel in translation” sounds an awful lot like “homework,” or “eating Grape Nuts,” or “itemizing...