The London Book Fair International Excellence Awards 2015

Tuesday 14th April 2015 Olympia, London

A very warm welcome to you all, and welcome to the second London Book Fair International Excellence Awards, organised in partnership with The Publishers Association (UK).

Tonight is a truly international celebration. These awards showcase an increasingly global industry and honour the people behind the most successful companies and initiatives in world publishing – whether that might be a reading scheme in Sub-Saharan Africa, a new app developed in Korea, or a new content platform in China.

The first LBF International Excellence Awards had a fantastic reception last year and that has resulted in a huge increase in entries this year, with many more countries represented.

Globally, publishing is a 150 billion dollar industry, outstripping movies and video games.

There are innovations in technology and education, new players keep coming into the market and wherever you look, there is tremendous energy and creativity. It is a hugely exciting time to be in the business and I am very proud that The London Book Fair is at the heart of it all, enabling every side of the content business.

Congratulations to everyone shortlisted – you span the globe and are shining examples of innovation and success across the publishing industry.

Sit back, enjoy the evening – you are the vanguard of the industry.

Jacks Thomas, Director, The London Book Fair

The Publishers Association is a proud partner of the LBF International Excellence Awards as it demonstrates the exciting innovation occurring in publishing around the world. The Awards highlight the many ways in which publishers are pushing their traditional boundaries, moving into apps, video games and other forms of multimedia.

Congratulations to all those nominated and shortlisted and to the winners this evening.

Richard Mollet, CEO, The Publishers Association

Awards host: Peter Guttridge, novelist, journalist, broadcaster, critic and chair of literary festivals throughout the UK. Author of more than 10 crime novels he participates in crime writing events all over the UK. He is Co-Director of the Scarborough Book Festival and former Director of the Brighton Literature Festival. He regularly chairs events at the Edinburgh Book Festival and the Cheltenham Literature Festival.

Categories & Shortlists The International Education Initiatives Award Book Aid International (UK) Library for All (US) Via Afrika (South Africa)

The International Educational Learning Resources Award Caramel Tree (US) C.J. Fallon (Ireland) Uigeverij Van In (Belgium)

The International Academic and Professional Publisher Award IOP Publishing (UK) Sage Publications (US) Princeton University Press (US)

The Publishing for Digital Minds Innovation Award Gojimo (UK) Join Book Club (UK) Rook Labs (UK) Snapplify (South Africa) The Pigeonhole (UK)

The Publishers Weekly International Book Industry Technology Supplier Award BooXtream (Netherlands) Copyright Clearance Center (US) China National Publications Import and Export (Group) Corporation (China) De Marque (Canada)

Mexico Market Focus Outstanding Contribution Award Adam Freudenheim, Pushkin Press (UK) Daniel Hahn, Director of the British Centre for Literary Translation (UK) Pam Dix, IBBY UK (UK)

The Market Focus Achievement Award China National Import and Export (Group) Corporation (China) Encyclopedia of China Publishing House/DK China (China) Sharjah International Book Fair (UAE)

The Award for Best Use of IP across Multiple Media Platforms Aadarsh (India) Mojang (Sweden)

The Publishers Association Copyright Protection Award FILCOLS (Philippines) IPCC (China) Nigerian Publishers Association (Nigeria)

The International Literary Agent Award Anna Soler-Pont, Pontas Literary & Film Agency (Spain) Nicole Witt, Literarische Agentur Mertin Inh. (Germany) Pierre Astier, Astier-Pecher Agency (France) Tom Colchie, Thomas Colchie Agency (US)

The International Literary Translation Initiative Award Asymptote Journal (Singapore) Dutch Foundation for Literature (Netherlands) Paper Republic (China)

The Association for Publishing Education (APE) Dissertation and Project Prize Victoria Love, Anglia Ruskin University

The Association for Publishing Education (APE) Best Dissertation by a Postgraduate Nigel Graves, Anglia Ruskin University

The Association for Publishing Education (APE) Best Dissertation by an Undergraduate Sarah Wild, Oxford Brookes University

Accessible Books Consortium Award for Accessible Publishing – Publisher Cambridge University Press (UK) Elsevier (Netherlands) HarperCollins (US) Sage Publishing (US)

Accessible Books Consortium Award for Accessible Publishing – Initiative BooXtream (Netherlands) Libri Italiani Accessibili (Italy) Syndicat National de l’Edition (France) Young Power in Social Action (Bangladesh)

The Simon Master Chairman’s Award

International Trade Children’s and Young Adult Publisher Award Clavis Publishing (Belgium) Duckbill Books (India) Fondo de Cultura Economica (Mexico)

The Bookseller International Adult Trade Publisher Award Fraktura (Croatia) People's Literature Publishing House (China) Rupa Publications India (India)

The Montegrappa Lifetime Achievement Award

Previous Lifetime Achievement Winners:

Peter Usborne The London Book Fair is pleased to announce that the twelfth annual Lifetime Achievement Award in International Publishing is awarded to Peter Usborne, Founder and Managing Director of Usborne Publishing.

Peter Usborne set up Usborne Publishing in 1973 and has made it one of the most successful children’s publishers in the world.

With over 50 years of publishing experience, his contribution to the publishing world has been both broad and influential.

Peter is not only a key figure in children’s publishing; he is also a trustee of The Usborne Foundation, committed to the cause of improving children’s literacy worldwide.

2014 - Deborah Rogers, Rogers, Coleridge & White, UK 2013 - Michael Krüger, Hanser Verlag, Germany 2012 - Jorge Herralde, Editions Anagrama, Spain 2011 - Sonny Mehta, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., US 2010 - Antoine Gallimard, Éditions Gallimard, France 2009 - Drenka Willen, Harcourt, USA 2008 - Peter Mayer, Overlook Press and Duckworth, UK & USA 2007 - Lord Weidenfeld, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, UK 2006 - Christopher MacLehose, MacLehose Press, UK 2005 - Lynette Owen, Pearson Education, UK 2004 - John Lyons, Little,Brown, UK & USA