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A good disposal of a prize fund today: Alison Flood reports in The Guardian that the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award has been given to a Palestinian organisation that promotes literacy… Read more »

Women are far more avid readers than men, according to a new survey for the National Year of Reading Campaign. The study found “almost half of women are ‘page turners’… Read more »

A whole new model of bottom-up publishing is florishing in Argentina as a result of the economic collapse there of 2001. In 2003, a group of artists and writers wanted… Read more »

In a gripping, rivetting commentary for the Guardian’s book blog that proves utterly readable, Alastair Harper turns a gimlet eye that’s also somehow edgy on the language of blurbs. You’ll… Read more »