The Nobel laureate, who is a vocal critic of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was nominated for the honour while writing screenplay about Bosnian warThe city of Sarajevo has abandoned plans to make Orhan Pamuk an “honorary citizen” of the Bosnia-Herzegovina capital, with critics blaming the move on fears of offending Turkey.Pamuk had been nominated for the honour by local publisher and bookshop Buybook, which suggested the Nobel laureate be made an “honorary citizen of Sarajevo” as he was planning to visit the city this spring while working on a screenplay about Bosnia during the war. According to Buybook director Damir Uzunović, while the council commission initially voted seven to zero to make the Turkish author an honorary citizen, a second vote saw Pamuk’s candidacy rejected by four votes to three. Related: Orhan Pamuk and Nicole Krauss - books podcast Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2018-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author Juno Dawson has won the Visionary Honours Book of the Year for Proud, published by Little Tiger Press. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-07 10:59:40 UTC ]
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As states relax their provisions to cope with the spread of Covid-19, bookstores will begin to reopen—and the logistical and practical issues bookstores will face as they prepare to do so are numerous. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-05-01 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Hodder & Stoughton has acquired two works from behavioural economist Dr Sheheryar Banuri about making decisions. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-22 01:52:13 UTC ]
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The UK Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) has announced that it will move on to a Phase Two investigation of the proposed merger between Cengage and McGraw-Hill, after concluding in its first probe that the move could result in higher-priced university textbooks. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-24 16:41:27 UTC ]
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Libraries Connected is calling on the government to issue "clear" guidance about closing libraries in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, highlighting "it is equally important that library staff are safeguarded during this period". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-18 08:33:36 UTC ]
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The use of libraries for community activities rather than just as a repository for books has led to a fall in their use rather than an increase, according to a new report by campaigner Tim Coates. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-10 22:33:22 UTC ]
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Murdoch mastheads point finger at ABC, Facebook and the Guardian, among others. Plus: what KFC and bidets say about the state of journalismThe demise of AAP has unexpectedly ignited a war of words between media companies over who is to blame.According to News Corp – one of the major shareholders... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-03-06 02:34:45 UTC ]
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Journalist Christopher Caldwell laments that the changes of the 1960s left nonelite whites behind. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-03-05 19:23:51 UTC ]
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The author of Catch and Kill says he won't work with Hachette Book Group after it announced plans to publish his father’s book. Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2020-03-04 19:50:27 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House has today withdrawn from the London Book Fair, following the move made by Hachette Livre earlier in the day. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-02 23:26:51 UTC ]
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Steven Levy mines the company’s history and talks to its leaders to figure out where things went wrong. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-02-28 13:00:00 UTC ]
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Redesign inadvertently breaches international humanitarian law. Plus, News Corp unruffled by consumer campaign on climateThe ABC has been forced to ditch a new logo it designed for the relaunch of Q+A with Hamish Macdonald after inadvertently breaching the international humanitarian law that... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-02-28 01:08:37 UTC ]
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Michael Lind says elite “managers” have stoked the resentments of the working class. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-02-21 13:00:00 UTC ]
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Books from Bernardine Evaristo and Malorie Blackman have been nominated for the Visionary Honours 2020, celebrating the voices that are having a cultural impact in the UK today. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-02-20 23:09:34 UTC ]
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The bookseller planned to promote classic novels with covers featuring people of color for Black History Month. Critics accused it of “literary blackface.” Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2020-02-05 23:31:49 UTC ]
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Award-winning author Benjamin Myers and the Society of Authors (SoA) have criticised the pressure on writers to become “personalities” rather than be judged on their work as literary events increase. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-01-09 07:55:03 UTC ]
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Marketing consultancy firm Ebiquity has purchased Digital Decisions in a bid to further its digital media monitoring capabilities as it aims to better help brands evaluate their online media spend. The deal between the Europe-based pair will begin with an initial consideration of 700,000 euros... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2020-01-08 09:05:25 UTC ]
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Novelist Rose Tremain has been made a Dame in the New Year's Honours list. Meanwhile poet and novelist Jackie Kay, the Scots Makar, receives a CBE. Sir Elton John, author of autumn memoir Me (Macmillan), is made a Companion of Honour. Among those receiving OBEs are artist and author David... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-27 17:04:32 UTC ]
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A biography by the late Edmund Morris paints a grand portrait of the prolific inventor. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-11-27 18:40:00 UTC ]
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Last night’s 70th National Book Awards in New York saw Susan Choi, Sarah M Broom, Arthur Sze, Laszlo Krasnahorkai and Martin W Sandler annnounced as winners, respectively, in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people’s literature. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-21 10:45:49 UTC ]
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