In Catalyst news, Barbara Boswell’s new nonfiction book And Wrote my Story Anyway (Wits University Press) was just shortlisted for the South African Humanities & Social Sciences Award in the Best Non-Fiction Single Authored Monographs category! We are proud to publish Barbara’s novel Unmaking Grace in North America.
Another of our authors, Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, will be (virtually) appearing on April 9 at 2:00 pm EST at Mercer University for a reading and discussion of her new book The Theory of Flight. Check our event calendar for more info and the event Zoom link.
In other awards news, the National Book Critics Circle Award winners were announced this week, and Kenya’s Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was just nominated as author and translator for the International Booker Prize, making his novel The Perfect Nine the first work written in an indigenous African language to be longlisted.
The book business was in the headlines a lot this week, thanks to a Seattle law firm suing Amazon for colluding to fix book prices and a bill in the Maryland state senate that’s pitting libraries against publishers (and Amazon, of course). Scholastic made the decision this week to pull a book by Captain Underpants author Dav Pilkey on account of the book’s harmful racial undertones, and if you need a new writing gig, Chinese tech giant China Literature wants to hire 100,000 North American writers to help boost its web fiction mega-business sales in the US and Canada. Continue reading “This Week in Literary News: Week of March 28”