Weekly Roundup: April 21st - 27th

Happy Monday from Bologna Global Rights Exchange!

This week's roundup is full of big names and interesting opinion pieces. 

Personal favourite on the list is Michael Wood's review of Dino Buzzati's work, an Italian author of the 20th century tradition who has left us with some of the most profound and precious books. If you don't know much about him, Wood's article might be a good place to start.

Isabel Allende's interview is also an amazing piece, and comes at the right time as she is about to publish her latest work My Name is Emilia del Valle in May. 

Hope you'll  enjoy reading through these as you commute to work or sip your coffee in the morning. 

With that said, buona lettura!

 

• U.K. Study Finds ‘Growing Reading Crisis’

• Bestseller charts: The sun rises once again for Suzanne Collins

• Lagardere Publishing Sales Grew 8 Percent In the First Quarter, With Sterling Lifting HBG USA

 

• The Bookseller launches the New Adult Book Prize to celebrate one of the fastest growing areas of fiction

• The Young Publishers Association Is Nurturing the Industry’s Next Generation

• Here’s the shortlist for the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize

 

• ‘The Interview’: Isabel Allende Understands How Fear Changes a Society 

• JK Rowling’s journey from Harry Potter creator to gender-critical campaigner

• Michael Wood · Clean Machine: On Dino Buzzati

• The Edit: Beach Reads Edition 

 

• Non solo romance e fantasy: su BookTok la Gen Z legge molto di più. Ora anche le distopie

• Il marketing come culto, il culto come marketing: "Seguimi!", il nuovo libro di Gianluca Diegoli 

• "Smetonz", un racconto della Resistenza europea 

• Scurati: perché non possiamo (non) dirci antifascisti 

 

- Lara Abrahams