Annelies Verbeke, author of Thirty Days and Writer in Residence at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, will deliver the Abraham Kuyper Lecture on Tuesday 21 May in the Zuiderkerk Church in Amsterdam....
The Last Poets, subjects of Christine Otten's biopic of the same name, have been selected as one of the opening acts for this year's Poetry International Festival, held in Rotterdam on 13-16 June....
World Editions author Mia Couto, author of Woman of the Ashes (‘enchanting’ – The Guardian) will be in the UK in May 2019, speaking at two major events.He’ll be in conversation with Maya Jaggi at the British Library on 22 May, and interviewed by Daniel...
This March Tatiana de Rosnay’s blog tour took her to some of the UK’s most highly-regarded book blogs, to launch her new novel, The Rain Watcher.The Rain Watcher is set in Paris, but a very different city to the one we like to imagine. The...
Multiple prizewinner has already sold 180,000 copies in first months of publication in FranceInternational literature specialists World Editions are to publish the English translation of Adeline Dieudonné’s bestselling Real Life, ‘a fierce and bitingly funny debut on surviving the wilderness of family life,’ translated...
The book centres around a family reunion in Paris, for the 70th birthday of Paul Malegarde.But Paris is flooding, the Seine is about to burst its banks, and the family are facing a crisis of their own; Paul suffers a stroke and is taken to...
The English translation of Mozambiquan author Mia Couto’s novel, Woman of the Ashes, translated by David Brookshaw, received its first review in the Sunday Times in February 2019, with reviewer Nick Rennison describing it as "an original, occasionally perplexing but always intriguing work of fiction."You...
The Rain Watcher, already a bestseller in France, launches in the UK this month! Join Tatiana de Rosnay’s blog tour from 7 March onwards at these top literary blogs....
Pierre Jarawan and Tatiana de Rosnay paid a flying visit to London booksellers ahead of publication to showcase their forthcoming books, The Storyteller and The Rain Watcher.Tatiana will be back for a public event in May, and Pierre will be at the Edinburgh Book Festival in...
Colombian superstar Héctor Abad visited the UK for three days, 10-13 October 2018, to launch the UK edition of The Farm, translated by Anne McLean.The Farm, a captivating story of three closely-knit siblings thrown into conflict over the fate of the family home received stunning reviews...