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Barbara Kingsolver Becomes the Only Two-Time Winner of the #UK's Women's Prize for Fiction for 'Demon Copperhead' | @Porter_Anderson https://t.co/IkQvqlPYCE @WomensPrize @FaberBooks @HarperCollins | Kingsolver won her first Women's Prize in 2010 for 'The Lacuna.' @PulitzerPrizes https://t.co/RY8XstnSTa

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Mohsin Hamid To Speak at Frankfurter Buchmesse | @Porter_Anderson https://t.co/OLySfS9wNG @Book_Fair #FBM22 @penguinrandom @riverheadbooks | The Pakistani British author of ‘The Last White Man’ gives a keynote address on October 18 at Frankfurt's opening press conference. https://t.co/d7CI1MUgPu

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China Bestsellers: A Tall ‘Dune’ Appears on November’s Charts | @Porter_Anderson https://bit.ly/325fs7Y | The Frank Herbert series may be finding a footing in the Chinese market, where series and relatively recent ‘classics’ are prized. https://t.co/tZSobIr2O9

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Pam Allyn and Ernest Morrell: 'Every Child a Super Reader' | @Porter_Anderson https://t.co/EcBWdHZ6Gh @Scholastic @litworldsays @pamallyn @ernestmorrell As publishing heads for Bologna, top researchers talk about ‘a golden age of children’s literature.’ #Ukraine @BoChildrensBook https://t.co/bdz1iBp5jr

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Rights Edition: Canada’s Guernica Editions Acquires Ivan Baidak’s (In)visible | @Porter_Anderson https://t.co/9kacnlw8Ck @guernica_ed @HelpHeroesOfUkr | The release in September from Guernica Editions in September will be the first English translation published of a Baidak novel. https://t.co/oBp3A7xo2R

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Books at Berlinale: The Gaeb Agency’s Bettina Wißmann | @Porter_Anderson https://t.co/ywsDD43sEY @berlinale @Book_Fair #FBM23 | Germany’s 2023 Books at Berlinale program today includes Bettina Wißmann’s presentation of Fernanda Melchor’s ‘This Is Not Miami.’ https://t.co/z5akcbpxWc

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Susanna Clarke Is Named Winner of the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction | @Porter_Anderson https://bit.ly/3BNHW2g @WomensPrize #WomensPrize @BloomsburyBooks @CubaPictures @TheCBG_ | The £30,000 Women's Prize for Fiction goes to Susanna Clarke for her second novel, 'Piranesi.' https://t.co/nIzCP6JT4L

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Ukraine’s ‘The Orphanage’ Wins the 2022 European Bank Prize | @Porter_Anderson https://t.co/YXaWz1sxWt @EBRD @serhiy_zhadan and #translators Reilly Costigan-Humes & Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler #NameTheTranslator @yalepress | Set in modern-day eastern #Ukraine https://t.co/m7JS2j9q1m

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After 36 Intl. Rights Deals, ‘Station Eleven’ Is Headed for Television | @Porter_Anderson https://bit.ly/3HmGjMW @EmilyMandel @AAKnopf @SarahJPerillo @CurtisBrownLtd @Station11onmax @hbomax | Emily St. John Mandel’s ‘Station Eleven’ in December. 'Sea of Tranquility' in April. https://t.co/tBMHBEVLjg

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From the week: The Baillie Gifford’s Anniversary Winner: James Shapiro | @Porter_Anderson https://t.co/IzX9sYJBX1 @BGPrize | The 25th anniversary award from the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction goes to James Shapiro, who first won in 2006 for ‘1599.’ https://t.co/oy0RVU1CB0