This is a new tranche of ad hoc awards, given out more like prizes, without applications, to writers, creatives, and intellectuals who are not supported by the current system of awards and grants, or who have been failed by such systems.

Could AI-powered video storytelling rejuvenate how publishers connect with younger audiences, or does the trend risk flattening the rich complexity of literature to mere visual spectacle ?

The fact is, traditional book promotion methods, such as book reviews, author events, static posts on social media platforms, barely make a dent among younger digital-native readers.

Devdas mirrors the ache of his emotional genius, and it is this novel that has arguably done more than any other single work to cement his immortality in the popular imagination.

By analyzing references in leading political science journals from 1990 to 2024, we reveal a notable shift: a decline in book references (52% to 28%) and a corresponding increase in journal article references (40% to 65%).

Moreover, whereas it is suggested that eBooks could mitigate these concerns, user tests reveal that readers consume eBooks differently than physical materials. Specifically, eBook readers rely on keyword searches to find “specific information,” spending an average of only 10 minutes engaging with a digital book

I think I am looking death in the face. Can’t get my head around this – impossible to imagine Pynchon or Cormac McCarthy, in early career, contemplating this with anything but horror.

Paramount, a Skydance Corporation, today announced the launch of its own publishing imprint, Paramount Global Publishing, marking a strategic expansion in how fans engage with the company's revered content while also creating new opportunities to develop original IP.

All this came with the big news, delivered by vice provost and University Librarian Ann Thornton, that literary theorist and University Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of several CUP authors in attendance, had just made the largest gift in the history of the press: $3 million for an endowed fund in honor of her parents. The fund, said Thornton, will enable CUP to publish English translations of historical, literary, and philosophical works in Bengali

In a survey of over 100 readers of African Literature, 93% of whom live in Nigeria, a staggering 73.5% indicated that they were strongly interested in reading older African literature, but only 11.7% of readers say that these titles are easy for them to find.

Written in a 5-7-5-7-7 syllable structure, tanka is one of Japan’s oldest poetic forms, with a history spanning more than 1,300 years. [...] And while haiku has gained global recognition, it is tanka that has recently captured the attention of Japan’s younger generations.

“Haiku is more descriptive of the environment … frogs jumping into ponds and such,” says Damiana De Gennaro, an academic at Stockholm University whose main area of research is tanka communities, referencing a classic haiku by Matsuo Basho (1644-94). “But what tanka does is communication between people.”

Translated into around 15 languages, The Camp of the Saints has sold several hundred thousand copies since its release, including around 50,000 abroad. Its most recent 2011 reissue in France alone accounted for nearly 80,000 sales. The book is still regularly reprinted. Many elevated Raspail, who died in 2020, to the rank of prophet, supposedly foreseeing before anyone else the significance of the migration phenomenon.

Netflix bought The Corrections from Paramount TV Studios, which is owned by Paramount, the company that recently outbid Netflix for Warner Bros.

For The Corrections, the roles were reversed, with Netflix outbidding Paramount+, among others. I hear PTVS pitched the project to its sibling streamer, which made an offer. HBO did not, having developed its own take on Franzen's book a decade and a half ago, sources said.

• Ben Lerner: ‘Screens are destroying us but we don’t know what they’ll open up’ by Will Pavia in The Sunday Times
• Ben Lerner and the Impossible Interview by Andrew Marantz at The New Yorker
• Ben Lerner’s Big Feelings by Kevin Lozano at Vulture

Before the war ended, Trygve Gulbranssen had sold over half a million copies of these books in Germany. No other translated works reached such a high circulation in the Third Reich.

Other books that sold well included Mikkjel Fønhus' Troll-Elgen (430,000 copies) and Knut Hamsun's Victoria (392,000) and Growth of the Soil (245,000).

Another, lesser-known Norwegian author who sold a great many books in Germany was Olav Gullvåg. His novel It Began on a Midsummer Night sold over 250,000 copies.

Fulsås points out that the German market was also very economically attractive.

There was a great demand for literature in Nazi Germany in the 1930s. It became even greater after the war started in 1939.

World War I had shown exactly the same thing: when there's war, people want to read books.

This also happened in Norway during World War II.

In 2004 she published The Red Queen, a historical novel set in 18th-century Korea. “Oh, that was a disaster,” she says. “Not my finest hour.” Accusations of cultural appropriation and a row with a translator left her feeling “unhappy” with the whole idea of writing fiction.

Still, she wrote three more novels, then, in 2017, her daughter, Rebecca, died of cancer, aged 53 — and she knew her life as a novelist was over. “I just realised that I simply didn’t want to do it any more. I was in the middle of something and I really had no wish to finish it.”

AI is going to change both education and literature. I think it’s going to be like B.C. and A.D. B.C. is about to end: the period during which all books were actually written by humans.

• Death and the Gardener by Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Angela Rodel
• Eye of the Monkey by Tóth Krisztina, translated by Ottilie Mulzet
• Ice by Jacek Dukaj, translated by Ursula Phillip
• We Computers by Hamid Ismailov, translated by Shelley Fairweather-Vega

• The Director by Daniel Kehlmann
• The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran by Shida Bazyar
• On Earth As It Is Beneath by Ana Paula Maia
• She Who Remains by Rene Karabash
• Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ
• The Witch by Marie NDiaye

In Hungary, Kertész had been making a name for himself primarily as a translator from German since 1980, with translations of plays by Tankred Dorst, Walter E. Richartz’s Büroroman (Office Novel), and above all the works of Hofmannsthal, Nietzsche, Elias Canetti, and Wittgenstein.

Since at least 2010, Orbán has represented everything Kertész opposed in the 1990s, and which ultimately drove him from the country after he received the Nobel Prize in 2002: hatred of the other, and particularly anti-Semitism.

“My novel, which had been described as ‘bland,’ became popular overseas during the pandemic, and then people began reading it in Japan. Maybe everyone was feeling worn out,” Yagisawa says.

“Sophisticated authors who want to evade the detection tools know how to edit their text, test it against these tools and revise again,” [assistant professor at Cornell Tech’s Jacobs Institute Nikhil Garg] said.