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International Translation Day – September 30th

The role of language professionals International Translation Day is meant as an opportunity to pay tribute to the work of language professionals, which plays an important role in bringing nations together, facilitating dialogue, understanding and cooperation, contributing to development and strengthening world peace and security. Transposition of a literary or scientific work, including technical work, from one language into another language, professional translation, including … Continued

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of Sept. 18-24, 2023

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Resisti, cuore. L’Odissea e l’arte di essere mortali/ Resist, heart: The Odyssey and the Art of Being Mortals Alessandro D’Avenia Mondadori 20.00 2 Il vento conosce il mio nome / The Wind Knows My Name Isabel Allende Feltrinelli 22.00 3 La morra cinese/ The Chinese Bramble Marco Malvaldi Sellerio Editore Palermo 15.00 4 Una ragazza d’altri tempi / … Continued

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of Sept. 11-17, 2023

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Il vento conosce il mio nome / The Wind Knows My Name Isabel Allende Feltrinelli 22.00 2 Una ragazza d’altri tempi / A Girl from Another Time Felicia Kingsley Newton Compton Editori 9.90 3 Accabadora Michela Murgia Einaudi 12.00 4 Holly Stephen King Sperling & Kupfer 21.90 5 La versione di Giorgia / Giorgia’s Version Alessandro Sallusti Rizzoli … Continued

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of Sept. 4 – 10, 2023

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Una ragazza d’altri tempi / A Girl from Another Time Felicia Kingsley Newton Compton Editori 9.90 2 Holly Stephen King Sperling & Kupfer 21.90 3 Tre ciotole: Rituali per un anno di crisi / Three Bowls: Rituals for a Year in Crisis Michela Murgia Mondadori 18.00 4 Accabadora Michela Murgia Einaudi 12.00 5 La portalettere/ The Postmistress Francesca … Continued

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of August 28 – Sept. 3, 2023

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Accabadora Michela Murgia Einaudi 12.00 2 Tre ciotole: Rituali per un anno di crisi / Three Bowls: Rituals for a Year in Crisis Michela Murgia Mondadori 18.00 3 La portalettere/ The Postmistress Francesca Giannone Editrice Nord 19.00 4 Una piccola formalità / A Small Formality Alessia Gazzola Longanesi 16.90 5 La guerra delle due regine: Blood and Ash/ … Continued

United States: Print Book Sales Dropped 8.3% Last Week

Unit sales of print books fell 8.3% last week compared to the week ended August 6, 2023 at outlets that report to Circana BookScan. Sales were down in all categories, including adult fiction where sales dropped 11.4%. Adult fiction has been by far the best performing category in 2023, but it is now struggling to keep pace with last year’s sales figures. A year … Continued

Italy: Publishers Call for Pandemic-Era Library Funds to Continue

Italy’s publishers are joined by their bookselling and library colleagues in an effort to make COVID-era library funding perpetual. As many of our professional world publishing readers will know, one post-pandemic issue in some markets has to do with “fading funding”—usually government allocated financial support for a cultural sector. This is normally a program of support that was made available to a given sector … Continued

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of August 21 -27, 2023

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Accabadora Michela Murgia Einaudi 12.00 2 Tre ciotole: Rituali per un anno di crisi / Three Bowls: Rituals for a Year in Crisis Michela Murgia Mondadori 18.00 3 La portalettere/ The Postmistress Francesca Giannone Editrice Nord 19.00 4 Come d’aria / Like Air Ada D’Adamo Elliot 15.00 5 Il cognome delle donne / Women’s Last Names Aurora Tamigio … Continued

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of August 14 -20, 2023

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Tre ciotole. Rituali per un anno di crisi/ Three Bowls: Rituals for a Year in Crisis Michela Murgia Mondadori 18.00 2 Come d’aria/ Like Air Ada d’Adamo Elliot 15.00 3 La portalettere/ The Postmistress Francesca Giannone Editrice Nord 19.00 4 Il cognome delle donne / Women’s Last Names Aurora Tamigio Feltrinelli 19.00 5 Donne che pensano troppo / … Continued

Michela Murgia, Italian writer and commentator, dies at 51

Anti-fascist and best-selling novelist was a campaigner for LGBTQ+ rights and had recently made her illness public. Novelist and playwright, Michela Murgia was a winner of the Premio Campiello and the Mondello International Literary Prize. She was an active feminist and left-wing voice in the Italian public scene, speaking out on themes such as euthanasia and LGBTQ+ rights. Murgia was born in Cabras, Sardinia … Continued

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  • The Bologna Children’s Books Fair will turn digital

    April 8

    The organizers (Ente Fiera) of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair announced on April 9th the cancellation of the 58th physical edition of the Expo, including the Licensing Trade Fair and the first Bologna BookPlus, expected for April 14 to 17 (2021) in order to stop the spreading of the Coronavirus. But the show must go on. In fact, according to Publishing Perspectives, the exhibition … Continued