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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.