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25th February 2021 is the first GRAY DAY, a celebration of the writer and artist Alasdair Gray, on the 40th anniversary of his masterpiece Lanark.

Cottongrass Summer (Saraband) and The Ring Ouzel: a View from the North York Moors (Whittles Publishing) were shortlisted for Best Bird Book of the Year 2020.

Congratulations to Barrington Stoke which has books on both the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals lists and to Canongate Books with a book longlisted for the Kate Greenaway medal.

The latest round of the Publishing Scotland Translation Fund saw a total of £23,000 awarded to 15 international publishers from 10 countries towards the translation of Scottish writers. Grants were awarded for works by Scottish writers to be translated into Arabic, Danish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Macedonian, Portuguese, Serbian and Turkish.

Publishers have until Monday 15 February 2021 to submit titles for the Indie Book Awards 2021.