Weekly Roundup: May 12th-18th

Happy Monday from Bologna Global Rights Exchange!

This week's roundup gives us an opportunity to delve deeper in the consequences of AI in publishing and the relationship the industry has to politics and governamental choices.

Moreover, there is an array of new titles to look out for and freshly released paperbacks you must get a hold of.

Hopefully you can enjoy reading through these articles and get inspired...

With that said, buona lettura!

 

• Oh good, Audible is planning to start using AI narrators and translators

• Creators for Europe's 10,000 Signatures: Copyright and AI

• Russian authorities arrest employees of largest publishing house over alleged ‘LGBT propaganda’ in books

• UK Maintains Copyright Exhaustion Laws, Rejects Tech Transparency Amendment 

 

• Southgate Children's Festival reveals inaugural line up

• Abi Daré wins inaugural Climate Fiction Prize worth £10,000

• Victoria Amelina, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Mishal Husain shortlisted for Orwell Prizes

• 2025 British Book Awards: Margaret Atwood Wins the Freedom to Publish Award

 

• The Folio Society unveils Homer limited editions

• Brag and Humblebrag: Walt Whitman’s Encounters

• This month’s best paperbacks: Elif Shafak, Richard Ayoade and more 

• Vintage Classics launches Weird Girls series featuring Jewelle Gomez and Ottessa Moshfegh

 

• L'autrice italiana Nicoletta Verna vince l’European Union Prize for Literature 2025 con «I giorni di Vetro» (Einaudi)

• Il Premio Strega Europeo 2025 va a Paul Murray per "Il giorno dell’ape"

• È Luigi Abete il nuovo presidente di Confindustria Cultura Italia, Nicoletta Righi la nuova direttrice

• Intervista a Mathias Énard, flâneur della Storia 

 

- Lara Abrahams