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The Man Booker International Prize 2017 Shortlist Revealed

The Man Booker International Prize, which celebrates the best works of translated fiction from around the world, has revealed its shortlist for 2017:

• Mathias Enard (France), translated by Charlotte Mandell (U.S.), Compass (Fitzcarraldo Editions)
• David Grossman (Israel), translated by Jessica Cohen (U.S.), A Horse Walks Into a Bar (Jonathan Cape)
• Roy Jacobsen (Norway), translated by Don Bartlett (U.K.) and Don Shaw (U.K.), The Unseen (Maclehose)
• Dorthe Nors (Denmark), translated by Misha Hoekstra (U.S.), Mirror, Shoulder, Signal (Pushkin Press)
• Amos Oz (Israel), translated by Nicholas de Lange (U.K.), Judas (Chatto & Windus)
• Samanta Schweblin (Argentina), translated by Megan McDowell (U.S.), Fever Dream (Oneworld)

Each shortlisted author and translator will receive £1,000. The £50,000 prize for the winning book will be divided equally between its author and translator.

The winner of the 2017 prize will be announced on June 14. There will be a number of public events in London leading up to the announcement. For more information, visit the Man Booker Prize website.

Ingram Content Group Promotes, Adds Associates

Nick Yates has been promoted to manager of operations analysis for the Ingram Content Group in Nashville, Tennessee. Previously, Yates served as a logistics manager for the company.

Christy Johnson has joined the company as a client relations manager for Ingram Academic Services in New York City.

Rich Thomas Joins HarperCollins Children’s Books as Publishing Director

Rich Thomas will join HarperCollins Children’s Books on Monday, May 1, as vice president and publishing director. He will be reporting to Kate Jackson, senior vice president, associate publisher, and editor-in-chief of HarperCollins Children’s Books.

Most recently, Thomas served as associate publisher and editorial director at Disney Publishing Worldwide, where he led the editorial and design teams for Disney Press, Marvel Press, and LucasFilm Press. He has also held several editorial positions at DC Comics and Macmillan General Reference.

Thomas will lead the Harper Festival, I Can Read, and licensing programs and will also work on celebrity and middle grade titles and intellectual property development.

YouTuber Connor Franta Joins BookCon Lineup

YouTube star and author Connor Franta is joining the lineup at this year’s BookCon, ReedPOP announced on Monday.

On Saturday, June 3, the Internet personality, bestselling author of the 2015 memoir A Work in Progress (Atria/Keywords Press), LGBTQ+ philanthropist, and entrepreneur will be featured on a Main Stage panel titled “Connor Franta’s Note to Self Journey” to discuss his latest project.

BookCon takes place June 3–4, immediately following BookExpo, at the Javits Convention Center in New York City. The programming schedule and ticket information can be found at TheBookCon.com.

Jacqueline Woodson and Jeanette Winterson to Be Honored at Lambda Literary Awards

This June, authors Jacqueline Woodson and Jeanette Winterson will receive awards at the 29th Annual Lambda Literary Awards (also known as the “Lammys”), which were founded in 1989 to celebrate excellence in LGBTQ literature.

The two authors will be honored along with all of the winners in 23 LGBTQ literary categories. Woodson will receive Lambda’s Visionary Award; she is the author of the Newbery Award-winning Brown Girl Dreaming (Nancy Paulsen Books) and the recent adult novel Another Brooklyn (Amistad).

Winterson will receive the Trustee Award; she is the author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Grove Press), which won the Costa First Novel Award, and other award-winning novels and short stories.

The awards ceremony will take place on Monday, June 12, in New York City at the NYU Skirball Center for Performing Arts. Tickets for the VIP cocktail reception, ceremony, and after-party can be purchased on the Lambda website.

L.A. Times Book Prize Winners Announced

The winners of the 37th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced at a ceremony on Friday, April 21.

The L.A. Times reported the list of honorees, which included Wesley Lowery, winner of the Christopher Isherwood prize for Autobiographical Prose for They Can’t Kill Us All (Little, Brown); Nathan Hill, winner of the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction for The Nix (Knopf); and Svetlana Alexievich, winner in the Current Interest category for Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Random House).

The ceremony, hosted by comedian Tig Notaro at the University of Southern California, took place the day before the opening of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, which brought together more than 400 authors on Saturday, April 22, and Sunday, April 23.

The complete list of prize winners is available on the L.A. Times website, which links to IndieBound for book purchases.