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The comic strip series "Bob and Bobette" wins The Golden Pencil 2010 award (04/08/2010)
The authors, Luc Morjaeu and Peter Van Gucht, handed over the award to Leen Vandersteen. She is the daughter of Willy Vandersteen who invented Bob and Bobette. In this way they payed tribute to all the artists and scriptwriters who work and have worked for Studio Vandersteen.
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Patrick De Bruyn and Pieter Aspe awarded in Bruges. (14/07/2010)
The Hercule Poirot Award is awarded every year to the best Flemish thriller. Patrick De Bruyn won this award in 2010 for his book Deadly desire (Dodelijk verlangen).
Pieter Aspe received the Hercule Poirot Lifetime Achievement Award. After Jef Geeraerts, he is only the second writer who receiv ...
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Standaard Uitgeverij and De Bezige Bij establish a new publishing house (29/06/2010)
De Bezige Bij Antwerpen opens its doors on January 1, 2011.
De Bezige Bij and Standaard Uitgeverij have taken the initiative to establish a new literary publishing house in Antwerp. With the new publishing house, de Weekbladpersgroep (WPG) sees its goal achieved to occupy a prominent position in Be ...
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Thriller for young adults by two top talents released! (30/04/2010)
Helen Vreeswijk and Dirk Bracke are both top authors with a wide readership. Helen Vreeswijk, who works for the police, writes youth novels based on her day-to-day experience with young people who get on the wrong side of the law. Dirk Bracke has also written a string of successful youth novels on t ...
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Graphic novel 'Years of the Elephant' nominated twice for Eisner Award (12/04/2010)
Willy Linthout was nominated twice for an Eisner-award, the highest recognition in the world of comic strips, cartoons, and graphic novel for the English translation of his book 'Years of the Elephant'. Linthout is best known as the author of the graphic novel Urbanus. 'Years of the Elephant' receiv ...
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Helen Vreeswijk is 'talk of town' on Bologna Book Fair (29/03/2010)
From the 23rd to the 27th of March, Standaard Publishing Company was present at the Bologna Children's Book Fair 2010 where authors of our children- and youth books were actively promoted in over 50 meetings with publishers from all over the world. Helen Vreeswijk was a much-discussed author on the ...
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Fantastic press reviews for German edition 'Woman Country' (18/03/2010)
'An interesting new voice in European literature.' Elisabeth Knoblauch's review of Frauenland in Die Zeit hails Rachida Lamrabet as a skillful and daring literary author tackling the big themes of contemporary life in Europe.Read this review in full.
Heike Baryga translated Rachida Lamr ...
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To be expected april 2010: Omega Mineur (18/03/2010)
Editions Cherche Midi will launch the long-expected French translation of 'Omega Minor' by the awardwinning Paul Verhaeghen: 'Omega Mineur'
'Omega Minor' ,in every sense, is a big novel that describes the history of the twentieth century as a large palette of stories and characters that a ...
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Sneak-preview cover 'With a sword in my hand' (18/03/2010)
In April 2010, the Australian publishing company Allen&Unwin will release the English translation of the historical youth novel 'Jonkvrouw' (My Lady) by Pat van Beirs and Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem. We are proud to present to you the English cover of this beautiful book... ...
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Modrijan releases Slovenian translation of 'Great European Novel' (18/03/2010)
The Slovenian publishing company Modrijan releases the translation of Koen Peeters' Great European Novel (Grote Europese Roman). The Great European Novel describes how we, strangers, can find each another anyway in conference centres, airports and hotels. How we, Europeans, feel each other out with ...
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Fazi Editore releases second Aspe: 'Caos a Bruges' (18/03/2010)
The Italian publisher of best selling thriller author Pieter Aspe has released the second book in the 'Van In'-series. 'Caos a Bruges' is the Italian translation of 'Midasmoorden'. Faz Editore undertakes a lot of efforts to launch Pieter Aspe in Italy. After a hughe promotional campaign for the ...
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Kane/Miller's translation of 'Rik bij de dieren' gets good reviews (18/03/2010)
The American publishing company Kane/Miller released the English translation of 'Rik bij de dieren' in the fall of 2009. The funny seek-and-find book by Liesbet Slegers has got good reviews so far: "The sunny cartoons and enthusiastic child narrator make this an especially inviting diversion.&q ...
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Loewe Verlag releases second 'Helen Vreeswijk'
The German publishing company Loewe Verlag has released the second book by best selling youth author Helen Vreeswijk. The German readers of these reality crime books will find the translation of 'Loverboys' as 'Die Masche Liebe' in the German bookshelves.
'Die Masche Liebe' is the second book (of at least four) by Helen Vreeswijk released by Loewe Verlag. The translation of 'Chatroom': 'Chatroom Falle' was released in the fall of 2009.
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