There’s little that sends the literary world into overdrive like when Sally Rooney announces a new book. For avid fans, the publication day is marked in calendars, and scraps of information about the characters and plot pored over. The hype around the release of her fourth book, Intermezzo, has been hard to miss. But after […]

Director Fernando Trueba’s career has been steeped in music. His first narrative films, Ópera Prima (1980) and Sal Gorda (1983), had musicians for protagonists. All his documentaries, too, from Mientras el Cuerpo Aguante (1982) to El Milagro de Candeal (2004) have revolved around music or artists like Chucho Vales and Michel Camilo. More recently even, […]

The Booker Prizes, The British Book Awards, The Orwell Prizes, The Women’s Prize, The Hugo Awards, Waterstones Book of the Year – the list goes on. With thousands of book awards worldwide, the exact number is hard to pin down. Book Award Pro, the world’s largest database of book awards and reviews, tracks over 10,000 […]