Poles on Shortlist for London Book Fair 2016
There is a strong Polish representation among nominees for the LBF International Excellence Awards 2016, with the Conrad Festival, Dwie Siostry, and SuperMemo World all in the running.
The International Excellence Awards, held by the London Book Fair together with the UK Publishers Association, are organised into 14 different categories recognising the best international initiatives and events in the publishing industry.
Poland has three representatives this year. The Conrad Festival has been nominated for the Literary Festival Award, while Dwie Siostry is competing for the Trade Children’s and Young Adult Publisher Award. Finally, SuperMemo World is in the running for the Educational Learning Resources Award, granted by the China Publishing & Media Journal.
Nominees for the International Excellence Awards include academic and scientific publishing houses as well as smaller publishers specialising in children's books, translations, and initiatives that are introducing digital innovations to literature. In each category, the nominees are selected by a group of experts.
The Conrad Festival will compete with the South African Open Book festival and Brazilian Flupp and FLIP festivals. Dwie Siostry Publishing House shares its category with the Chinese publisher Jieli as well as Il Castoro from Italy. SuperMemo World is in the running with companies from Australia and Belgium. The nominations come as a great honour for the Polish publishing industry – only China and Australia have more nominations this year.
The winners will be announced at the opening gala of the LBF on 12th April 2016.
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In addition, Poland has been declared the 2017 Market Focus of the London Book Fair. It should be a great opportunity for the Polish and British publishing worlds to establish new contacts and strengthen prior ones. The programme will include a number of cultural and professional events, featuring hotly-tipped names, popular genres, interesting topics, literary trends and nuances of the Polish book industry – in short, the best on offer from contemporary Polish literature.
The London Book Fair is a place where the entire publishing world comes to negotiate, sell and distribute copyrights across print, audio, TV, film and digital channels.
The 45th edition of the LBF will take place between 12th and 14th April at Olympia in London.
Source: The Book Institute, compiled by JRK, translated by OK, 13 March 2016
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