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Peter Usborne, founder and
MD of Usborne Books, was
last night presented with the
London Book Fair/Publishers
Association Lifetime
Achievement Award.
The veteran children’s
publisher was among a
number of distinguished
international figures honoured
at the second London Book
Fair International
Excellence Awards, which
shone a spotlight on some
of the 67 countries
represented at the Fair while
also acknowledging the
contribution of such trade
stalwarts as CUP and SAGE.
Nigeria took the laurels
for Copyright Protection,
YPSA (Young Power in
Social Action) of Bangladesh
the Accessible Books
Consortium Award for
Accessible Publishing, and
Croatia’s Fraktura the
Bookseller’s International
Trade Publisher Award.
New York-based non-profit
Library for All picked
up The International
Education Initiatives
Award for its work helping
people in developing
countries “lift themselves
out of poverty through
education”.
Judges identified Belgian
publishers as some of the
world’s most innovative in
children’s and educational
publishing: Clavis Publishing
won the International Trade
Children’s and Young
Adult Publisher category
and was commended for
its “innovation” and
“brilliant international
sales and marketing”. And
Uigeverij Van In won the
International Educational
Learning Resources
Award for its digital
learning platform Bingel,
which takes children on
an educational tour of
fantasy islands.
The winners in full:
The International Literary Agent
Award
Nicole Witt, Literarische Agentur
Mertin Inh (Germany)
The Award for Best Use of IP
across Multiple Media Platforms
Mojang (Sweden)
The International Literary
Translation Initiative Award
Asymptote Journal (Singapore)
The International Academic and
Professional Publisher Award
SAGE (US)
The International Education
Initiatives Award
Library for All (US)
The International Educational
LBF International
Excellence Awards–
2015 winners
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