Publishing Perspectives: “Winners Announced in Georgia’s 2016 Saba Prize“

Winners of this year's Saba Literary Prize in Georgia are the subject of a news piece by a leading book publishing review website today.

Publishing Perspectives is a "trade journal for the international book publishing industry", that reviews and writes about publishing houses and book markets.

Part of today’s news section was dedicated to the 10 winners of the 2016 Saba Prize, announced on September 18.

Contributing editor Dennis Abrams announced the names of the past year's top writers, critics and translators, as reported by Agenda.ge last week. 

The Saba Literary Prize, founded in 2003, honours the nation’s best authors, translators, and critics ‘for their efforts in developing the nation’s literature’ and is awarded to authors of prose, poetry, documentary writing, and more," said Abrams.

The story also revealed a new initiative of this year’s awards, which granted the public the ability to vote for the Literary Debut of the Year.

[In] a novel approach to this year’s awards, it was readers themselves who determined the winners of the prize for the Literary Debut of the Year through voting via social media," read the report.

Read the full article here: www.publishingperspectives.com