Autor: Andrea

The awards, which we have already reported on, were presented at a press conference at noon on Friday the 4th at the Cálamo bookstore in Zaragoza. Paco Goyanes, proud of the fact that his list of award winners boasts on its back covers of having the award given every year by the bookstore he runs with Ana Cañellas, warns: «The three winning books are not easy, they challenge us».

The Ministry of Culture and Sport has been awarded the Best Edited Books Awards for the year 2021. The purpose of this award is to recognize and stimulate the work of publishers in the edition of books and works. The prizes are not financially endowed, although they are highly valued by publishers for the recognition, and prestige they bring to their publishing work, as well as for the dissemination they entail since the winning books will subsequently be exhibited at the international book fairs LIBER, Frankfurt, and Leipzig.

Norma Editorial has been awarded the National Prize for the Best Cultural Publishing Work, corresponding to the year 2022, at the proposal of the jury that met today. The jury highlighted the publisher’s «notable and long-lasting cultural and social influence that has had a positive impact on the entire book value chain».

The independent publishing house Barrett has announced that in 2023 they will publish 8 books instead of 10 as they had been doing. Last Friday, September 12, two of its editors published a video on their social networks in which they shared the news in a humorous way. According to them, «in almost 90% of the cases, the life of a book lasts less than what «two ice fish last…», that is, the system makes that a book has no chance to be more than a month in a bookstore makes us sad and horrifies us in equal parts».