JANUARY 2010
Early publication of Henning Mankell’s The Man from Beijing ebook to celebrate the start of Harvill Secker’s centenary year.
21st - Henning Mankell event at the Institute of Education, London
FEBRUARY 2010
27th - Harvill Secker International Writing Day at Foyles bookshop, featuring Joseph O’Connor, Nicholas Shakespeare, Clare Clark, Manuel Rivas, A. S. Byatt, Stuart Neville, Gene Kerrigan, Alon Hilu, Xiaolu Guo and Tim Parks.
28th - Jewish Book Week, featuring Alon Hilu and Philip Sington.
J. M. Coetzee’s Summertime shortlisted for regional Commonwealth Writers’ Prize
MARCH 2010
Celebrated Norwegian Crime Writer Jo Nesbo visits the UK to mark the publication of
The Snowman‘deserves comparison with the first volume of Steig Larsson’s Millenium Trilogy’ Sunday Times
Acclaimed Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o appears at events in London and Birmingham to celebrate publication of his childhood memoir Dreams in a Time O’ War
APRIL 2010
Launch of the Harvill Secker Translation Prize
Launch of www.internationalwriting.co.uk – an exciting new site dedicated to international writing
Publication of a special collectible edition of George Orwell’s Animal Farm to mark the 60th anniversary of his death, alongside an enlightening new collection of his letters, A Life in Letters
Danish writer Carsten Jensen visits the UK to mark publication of his gripping seafaring epic We, the Drowned
Gerbrand Bakker’s The Twin shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Julia Frank’s The Blind Side of the Heart shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
Clare Clark’s Savage Lands longlisted for the Orange Prize.
Ruth Dudley Edwards’ Aftermath longlisted for the Orwell Prize
C. K. Stead wins the Sunday Times Short Story Prize
MAY 2010
Publication of collectible limited editions of Lampedusa’s ,The Leopard Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Coetzee’s Disgraceto celebrate the centenary
The Hay festival featuring events by Joseph O’Connor, Carsten Jensen, Frank Westerman and Henning Mankell
Frank Westerman at Swindon Literature festival of Literature
Jane Feaver and A. L. Kennedy make the shortlist of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize
Summertime wins Australia’s most prestigious prize - Christina Stead Prize
CWA shortlist for the International Dagger announced Arnaldur Indridason’s Hypothermia and Ruth Dudley Edwards Aftermath are included
The Charleston Debate Orwell with Roy Hattersley, Simon Hoggart, David Horspool, Lisa Jardine and Simon Schama
JUNE 2010
1-6th - Dublin Writers festival featuring Joseph O’Connor discussing his new novel Ghost Light
3rd - Heffers translated fiction night featuring Carsten Jensen
8th - Frank Westerman as part of Go Dutch series at Free Word Centre
World Literature Weekend at the London Review Bookshop featuring acclaimed translator Robert Chandler discussing VasilyGrossman’s Everything Flows
Gerbrand Bakker wins the IMPAC for his debut novel The Twin
JULY 2010
1st and 5th - Tim Parks will be appearing in London on the 1st and at Toppings bookshop in Bath on the 5th to celebrate publication of Teach Us To Sit Still
9-15th - London Literature Festival featuring Joseph O’Connor
9-19th -Ways with Words Festival, Dartington, featuring prize-winning Norwegian author Per Petterson celebrating publication I Curse the River of Time
22-25th - Theakstons Old Peculiar Festival, Harrogate featuring Jo Nesbo and Stuart Neville
31st - Closing date for entries to the Harvill Secker Young Translators Prize.
AUGUST 2010
14-30th - Edinburgh International Book Festival featuring Joseph O’Connor, Carsten Jensen, Stuart Neville and Steven Amsterdam.
SEPTEMBER 2010
Harvill Secker Young Translators’ Prize award ceremony
OCTOBER 2010
8-17th -The Times Cheltenham Literature festival featuring Joseph O’Connor
Publication of beautiful hardback edition of new translation of Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
NOVEMBER 2010
Publication of Nobel Prize-winning author Gunter Grass’ The Box