Canada's annual televised book event, Canada Reads, airs next week. The broadcast features celebrities defending their favorite books and aims to promote reading to the public.

 

The 2018 Festival Neue Literatur just opened in New York City with German- and English-language writers and readers are coming together to debate this year's theme of outsiders and insiders.

 

The London Book Fair introduces a fair illustrator and a fair poet in April. And translation press Tilted Axis forms a partnership for rights in Australia, New Zealand.