The shortlist for The London Book Fair International Excellence Awards 2018 has been announced, with Brazil leading the way with five nominations, closely followed by USA with four, and a record-high 27 countries represented overall.
The awards, which are held in partnership with the UK Publishers Association (PA) and sponsored by Hytex, celebrate excellence in seventeen categories, including international publishing, bookselling, academic and scholarly publishing, children's publishing, literary translation and digital innovation. In each award category, the judging panel comprised of experts in that sector.
The first-ever Audiobook Publisher Award will see a battle between KaihShu Story Media & Culture Co (China), Penguin Random House (USA) and Ubook.com (Brazil). Biblo Tøyen (Norway), Dokk1 (Denmark), National Library of Latvia (Lativia) and São Paulo Library (Brazil) will all hope to take home the crown for the new Library of the Year Award.
Retailers from across the world are nominated for the Bookstore of the Year Award, sponsored by Gardners, with Carturesti (Romania), Timbooktoo (Gambia) and The Uppsala English Bookshop (Sweden) all shortlisted.
Brazil (5), USA (4), Canada (2), Australia (2), Poland (2) and the MF Baltics countries Lithuania (5), Latvia (5) and Estonia (3) all received multiple entries. Gambia is represented for the first time in the award's five-year history, for Bookstore of the Year, sponsored by Gardners.
The winners of several other Awards will also be presented on the night including: The Simon Master's Chairman Award, The Market Focus Baltics Cultural and Literary Initiative Award, The Association for Publishing Education (APE) Student Awards and The LBF Trailblazer Awards.
The London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award will also be presented at the ceremony.
The LBF International Excellence Awards ceremony is an invitation-only event, and takes place on April 10, 2018 in The Conference Centre, Olympia, London.
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