Books published in South Korea in 2012 GRANTA SELASI, WYLD AMONG GRANTA BEST Benedicte Page


Début novelist Taiye Selasi, whose tale of a fractured family Ghana Must Go was published by Viking just a fortnight ago, is among the newest names in literary fiction to feature on this decade’s Granta Best of Young British novelists selection. Selasi is joined by fellow newcomer Jenni Fagan,


whose début Te Panopticon (Wm Heinemann) was a Waterstones Eleven choice last year; Sunjeev Sahota, author of Ours Are the Streets (Picador, 2011); Evie Wyld, who won acclaim for her first novel After the Fire, A Still, Small Voice (Jonathan Cape); and Steven Hall, author of Te Raw Shark Texts (Canongate). Nadifa Mohamed, whose 2010 novel Black Mamba


Boy (HarperCollins) was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, also makes the selection. Among established names, two from the 2003 list


return: Zadie Smith, who has since published On Beauty and NW (Hamish Hamilton); and Adam Thirlwell, who has published novel The Escape (Jonathan Cape) and novella Kapow! (Visual Editions) since his last listing. Sarah Hall, Kamila Shamsie and Naomi Alderman also feature. Twelve of the 20 authors on the much-prized list, often taken as an indicator of future literary stardom, are women.


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NOVELISTS 2013 Naomi Alderman, Tahmima Anam, Ned Beauman, Jenni Fagan, Adam Foulds, Xiaolu Guo, Sarah Hall, Steven Hall, Joanna Kavenna, Benjamin Markovits, Nadifa Mohamed, Helen Oyeyemi, Ross Raisin, Sunjeev Sahota, Taiye Selasi, Kamila Shamsie, Zadie Smith, David Szalay, Adam Thirlwell and Evie Wyld.


RIGHTS IN BRIEF


MACCA BIO GOES TO W&N, LB US Philip Norman is to write a “fly on the wall, insider’s biography” of Sir Paul McCartney with the approval of the former Beatle. Alan Samson, Weidenfeld & Nicolson non-fiction publisher, and John Parsley of Little, Brown US bought world English language rights from Michael Sissons at PFD. W&N and LB will release the book in the UK and US simultaneously in 2015. PFD has foreign rights, with rights director Rachel Mills reporting sales to Brazil (Companhia das Letras), Holland (de Bezige Bij), Norway (Gyldendal), Poland (Foksal), Russia (Corpus) and Sweden (Forum).


Fagan Sahota Selasi Granta editor John Freeman said of the 2013 list:


“From satirists to humorists to sweeping epic- spinners, these writers have a command of language and their form which is simply astonishing. Tey show that the novel has a bold, brilliant future in Britain. I could not be prouder of the list.” Freeman judged the prize alongside Granta deputy


editor Ella Allfrey, publisher Sigrid Rausing, novelists Romesh Gunesekera and A L Kennedy, Scotland on Sunday literary editor Stuart Kelly, and Gaby Wood, head of books at the Telegraph Media Group.


KOREAN PUBLISHERS URGE SUPPORT FOR SEOUL BOOK FAIR


The Korean Publishers Association has told publishers that current tensions in North Korea should not discourage partnerships with South Korean businesses or attendance to the Seoul Book Fair later this year. Seung Hyun Moon, director of


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the International Project Department for the Korean PA, told the Bookseller Daily: “It is a possibility that UK and Western businesses will be put off going to SBF and linking up with Korean companies because of what is


going on at the moment. [South Koreans] are used to this ‘theatre’ [from the North], so we are not worried, but most foreigners are not used to it. I want to assure them that all things are in control and I do not think there will be any of this drama in June.” The Seoul Book Fair was launched in 1995 and will take


heard that Korea printed 39,000 new titles and 87 million books throughout 2012 from its 38,170 publishing companies. Like the UK, publishing executives in Korea were being troubled by an increasing decline in bricks-and- mortar bookshops as a result of an uplift in online shopping. Digital e-books only account for 1%–2% of the South Korean book market currently though, Moon said.


RANDOM, HC SCATTER THE COMPETITION Début novel The Scatter Here is Too Great by Bilal Tanweer has been signed in three territories so far, with deals in the UK, US and India, following a hotly contested auction. Random House India batted away the competition to scoop English language rights in the Indian sub-continent, in a deal with Clare Alexander of Aitken Alexander in the UK and Shruti Debi at the agency’s India operation. Meanwhile, Alexander has also sold UK rights to publisher Dan Franklin at Jonathan Cape, and US rights to Tim Duggan at HarperCollins.


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place between 19th–23rd June. Hyun Moon spoke at


yesterday’s (15th April) London Book Fair, and gave an overview of the Korean publishing market. South Korea is the 2014 LBF Market Focus country. During the session, delegates


DIGI/PRINT BACKLIST PROMO FOR BALDACCI’S THE HIT Pan Macmillan has launched David Baldacci’s latest novel, The Hit, with a unique code on the front endpapers which readers can use to claim a free copy of one of his backlist titles. The nine-digit code was printed on the pages during the binding process by printers CPI. Readers can log in to www. panmacmillan.com/thehit and choose from one of three backlist titles. Marketing and communities director Lee Dibble said the innovation would enable Pan Mac to “cross pollinate” Baldacci readers across the globe.


TRIPLE PLAY FOR MIRCHANDANI Atlantic editor-in-chief Ravi Mirchandani has signed three US titles. Mirchandani bought UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) in non-fiction title Moral Tribes by Joshua Greene. Meanwhile, he also snapped up two novels (including UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada) from Stephanie Cabot at the Gernert Company, for Babagaya by Toby Barlow; and the same territories for The Good House by Anne Leary, from Arabella Stein at Abner Stein on behalf of Maria Massie.


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