Weekly Roundup: May 5th - 11th

Happy Monday from Bologna Global Rights Exchange!

This week's roundup includes plenty of news from the US, a selection of amazing prize winners and inspiring book reviews.

Hopefully you can read through these under the sun, enjoying the weather as it gets warmer and summer seems to be ever so close.

With that said, buona lettura!

 

• Industry leaders urge Prime Minister to enforce copyright law after AI amendment rejected

• Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden Fired by White House

• NEA Literary Grants Terminated, Staff Depart as Trump Proposes Eliminating the Agency

• Amazon now has a ‘Get book’ button in its iOS Kindle app | The Verge

 

• Here are the 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners

• Batsford Prize reveals 2025 shortlists

• Willkommen, bienvenue! New festival celebrates translated fiction from Cameroon to Slovakia as sales boom

• Submissions open for The Bookseller's fifth annual Black issue

• Indie Book Awards Shortlist 2025 features Jacqueline Wilson, Elif Shafak and David Litchfield

 

• Given up on reading? Elif Shafak on why we still need novels 

• It’s in the eyes: Hanne Ørstavik’s ‘Stay with Me’

• Dianaworld by Edward White review – why we’re still obsessed with the people’s princess 

• Friend, Foe, Family, Stranger: Fourteen Books on Black Motherhood by Black Daughters

 

• Carlo Levi non ha mai ostentato la sua grandezza 

• Allarme editoria: crollo delle vendite nei primi tre mesi dell’anno 

• Inaugurato il Padiglione italiano della Fiera del libro di Salonicco, dove l'Italia è Ospite d'Onore

• "L'autoreinvisibile": gli incontri per traduttrici e traduttori al Salone del Libro 2025

 

- Lara Abrahams