Spain’s Premio Planeta de Novela, the single most valuable literary award in the world given for a single book, has been won by Dolores Redondo for her novel Todo esto te daré. The award is valued at €600,000. Redondo has found fame internationally with her Baztan Trilogy, with the first volume, The Invisible Guardian, published in English by HarperCollins this year.
Tom Oxtoby, a former editor of the Woking News and Mail, has helped to launch a new hyperlocal title covering the City of London, called City Matters, ‘the brainchild of publisher Roy Court, a former proprietor of the City of Islington News,’ holdthefrontpage website reported.
Athens will be the World Book Capital for 2018 hosting a programme to include events for writers, translators, illustrators, concerts, exhibitions as well as the promotion of poetry via readings and workshops.