The newly named Sheikh Zayed Book Award winners come from Egypt, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, the United States and Lebanon. Translation funding is available for the literature and children's titles.

In its fourth year, the 2021 Aspen Words Prize goes to Louise Erdrich for her fiction on the Native American struggle for self-determination.

Of the six authors shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker, four are published in English for the first time.