See our news and videos, or contact us••/••Rights Edition: April 2021

World Book Day: A Rights Roundup From Five Markets

Today's Rights Roundup, coinciding with World Book and Copyright Day, includes titles from Germany, Finland, Canada, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

French Week: New Rights and Networking Meetings Set for May

A series of virtual rights meetings and presentations featuring some 75 French publishers, BIEF's French Week is set for May 17 to 28.

Words Without Borders' Earth Day Issue: Iceland 'On the Edge'

Guest editor and translator Larissa Kyzer's curation of Icelandic writings from the past five years describes 'a harbor both outward- and inward-looking.'

More Reporting from Publishing Perspectives:

The Authors Guild Releases Its Model Translation Contract

Canada’s Wattpad Has First Film Project With Netflix

Richard Charkin: Chronicling Publishing’s Digital Disputes

Scribd Audio Introduces Spanish Audiobooks in Mexico

Amazon Crossing Kids’ Marilyn Brigham on Children’s Books in Translation

Book Picks: Croatian Literature from Fraktura

Fraktura is an award-winning, independent, internationally acclaimed publishing house with nineteen years of experience on the Croatian and regional cultural scene. Written by established authors or emerging voices, our stories are worth telling and we believe in each one of them.

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Love Me More than Anything in the World

By Mira Furlan (to be published November 2021)

Furlan is best known as Satai Delenn in the series Babylon 5 and Danielle Rousseau in the series Lost, with a wide range of fandom. Her memoirs give us an inside look at a person that left an indelible trace in so many ways.

By Igor Štiks (2019)

Written in the manner of best Scandinavian thrillers and masterful plotting, full of intrigues, W offers us a cross-section through the last half of the century of the international left, its struggles, lapses and dead ends.

My Heart

By Semezdin Mehmedinović (Me’med, crvena bandana i pahuljica, 2017)

Poetically explosive, purified to the core, My Heart is a cocktail of human strengths and weaknesses with a clear-cut reflection and expression of the most important issues on everyone’s mind – love and death, leaving and staying.

His Father's Son

By Dino Pešut (Tatin sin, 2020)

Uncompromising, quick, His Father’s Son is a novel about the 90s generation, worse off than their parents, about young people who are exceptionally sensitive and educated, but society obstinately refuses to give them a chance.

Invisible Woman and Other Stories

By Slavenka Drakulić (Nevidljiva žena i druge priče, 2018)

Honestly and delicately written, Drakulić’s stories depict the gradual disappearance of a person. Invisible Woman is read as a manifest of irreversible life loss or internalized rebellion against the injustice of aging.