Citing 6-percent growth in Africa's cumulative book market, the president of the Nigerian Publishers Association urged the continent's publishers to combat piracy and think globally.

 

This year's Dylan Thomas Prize goes to a poet whose focus is on black masculinity and the experiences of young black men in contemporary British society–'immensely relevant,' as the jury chair puts it.

 

A program that provides more than 27,000 educators with weekly poetry and teaching materials to support it has won the 2018 Innovations in Reading Prize from the National Book Foundation.