Debate surrounds gender bias in publishing, with concerns about male authors being overlooked despite female dominance in book buying and the industry workforce. Literary awards and media coverage are scrutinized.
Fiammetta Rocco steps down as International Booker Prize administrator after 20 years, becoming emeritus director. The prize celebrates translated fiction and global literary conversations, impacting international literature.
It draws in a circle of urbane emigrés, including Mrs Ruxandra Hudişteanu, a viola player at the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, and Dr Antal Bródy, who has doctorates in philology and philosophy from Budapest and divinity from Vienna, but now works as a wholesale umbrella salesman.
