LONDON, Tuesday 18 February 2025: The London E-book Honest (LBF) has as we speak introduced that Gloria Bailey, MBE, Affiliate Director for Export Providers on the Publishers Affiliation, is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for 2025.
All through her profession, Gloria has been instrumental in facilitating UK publishers’ worldwide progress. She has coordinated export companies and administered the Tradeshow Entry Programme funding, serving to quite a few small publishers entry international markets via worldwide gala’s – together with The London E-book Honest, Frankfurt, Bologna, Shanghai, Beijing, Sharjah, and plenty of extra. Her function in selling UK publishing internationally additionally concerned working in shut collaboration with the UK Authorities.
Gloria’s affect extends properly past logistical help: she is extremely regarded for her professionalism, grace, and calm manner, in addition to deep information, distinctive work ethic, and personable nature – making her a central determine within the publishing neighborhood. Dedicating over 40 years to supporting publishers throughout the globe, Gloria has performed a pivotal function in serving to companies of all sizes and specialisms thrive inside the business.
Gloria Bailey, MBE commented: “Once I joined the Publishers Affiliation in 1983, I by no means imagined I used to be embarking on a journey which might result in me receiving this prestigious accolade from the publishing neighborhood. It has been a pleasure and an honour to signify UK publishers at greater than 120 editions of worldwide guide gala’s and commerce missions in all 4 corners of the world, serving to firms of all styles and sizes discover new markets and audiences. To have performed a small function within the international success of UK publishing has been a outstanding expertise. However my best pleasure has been the folks I’ve labored with – my colleagues and members on the Publishers Affiliation, organisers and attendees at guide gala’s, and everybody I’ve met in the middle of my work and travels. I cherish these reminiscences and share this award with them.”
Adam Ridgway, Director of The London E-book Honest, mentioned: “We’re completely delighted to recognise Gloria’s luminous profession with this 12 months’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Gloria is an actual instance of one of many hardest-working people within the business, serving to UK publishers of all sizes develop and do enterprise internationally. In addition to skilled affect, expertise and achievements, the award additionally goals to highlight people with distinctive work ethics and angle. All through her profession, Gloria has shone for her gracious and type manners. Colleagues and shoppers alike describe her as dependable, affected person, and extremely approachable, and somebody who evokes confidence and makes probably the most advanced duties appear manageable. We’re trying ahead to celebrating Gloria’s extremely well-deserved honour at The London E-book Honest.”
David Roche, Chair of the Judging Panel for the Lifetime Achievement Award, mentioned: “The LBF Lifetime Achievement Award Judging Panel was blown away by this 12 months’s stellar shortlist representing a large number of sectors throughout the publishing and guide business. The 2025 winner stands out as personifying what this award is about. Gloria Bailey has devoted her whole profession to serving to hundreds of people and corporations perceive and overcome worldwide borders and join with fellow publishers the world over. Gloria has achieved this with distinctive information, ability, reliability, diplomacy and a relaxed assurance – there can be no extra widespread recipient of this award than Gloria.”
Dan Conway, CEO of the Publishers Affiliation, mentioned: “Gloria Bailey instructions the respect and admiration of all of us within the publishing business who’ve had the privilege to work together with her through the years. She has served publishers within the UK and internationally for over 40 years with dedication, kindness, and vitality and I can’t consider a extra deserving winner of this illustrious Award.
Perminder Mann, CEO of Bonnier Books UK and President of the Publishers Affiliation, mentioned: “It’s troublesome to think about a extra deserving recipient of this award than Gloria Bailey. In her many years of service to the publishing business, she has helped companies of all types efficiently navigate worldwide guide gala’s. Not solely does she do a fantastic job, nevertheless it’s all the time carried out with a smile. Gloria is a power of nature and a whole pleasure to work with. Vastly revered and valued by all who encounter her, she is an unimaginable ambassador for the business.”
Caroline Summers, CEO of PBShop, mentioned: “I’ve had absolutely the privilege of working with Gloria over the previous 15 years or so. From worldwide guide gala’s to commerce missions, Gloria has the fantastic knack of having the ability to consider each conceivable element that may assist makes issues run easily for you. Her information of the publishing business is second to none and he or she is all the time prepared to freely share her knowledge and go that further mile to verify everybody round her feels relaxed and welcome. In case you are new to the business, Gloria will take you below her wing and offer you all the knowledge it is advisable to really feel proper at house. Whether or not you’re strolling down the aisle in Frankfurt or leaping on a coach in Beijing, the very first thing you see is Gloria’s big smile with that fabulous sense of enjoyable shining via”.
Kate Wilson, Group CEO of Nosy Crow, mentioned: “Gloria combines her deep information of individuals and locations and the publishing enterprise with exemplary private traits: she is dependable, calm, tolerant, affected person, sensible, engaged and type. She’s additionally enjoyable to be with. She evokes confidence, she appears to think about all the things, and nothing is an excessive amount of hassle for her. She is likely one of the stand-out folks in my profession in publishing thus far.”
Abdul Kadir Thadha, Managing Director of Candy Cherry Publishing, mentioned: “Gloria has been a useful supporter of Candy Cherry Publishing since our inception 12 years in the past. In our early years, she was a relentless presence at rights gala’s, providing steering and championing UK publishers. Her dedication to making sure sturdy UK illustration at worldwide occasions has been instrumental. I’ve many fond reminiscences of working with Gloria, however one which stands out was our first time exhibiting on the Shanghai Kids’s E-book Honest. Her teaching and help have been invaluable in serving to us navigate the truthful and safe rights offers. Gloria’s ardour for publishing and her unwavering help for UK publishers are actually outstanding. I’m thrilled that she is receiving this well-deserved honour.”
Simon Littlewood, Publishing Marketing consultant and PA Board Member of FEP, mentioned: “Gloria has devoted her complete working life to furthering the reason for British guide and journal exports, particularly to enabling our small and medium-sized publishers to take part in guide gala’s all around the world. Sensible, considerate, educated, competent, and a delight to work with, she has made a career-long contribution to consolidating the UK business’s place because the world’s main exporter of books and journals, and a jewel within the crown of our artistic industries.”
Emma Home, Managing Director of Oreham Group, mentioned: “Gloria is a agency fixture at worldwide guide gala’s, and together with her many years of expertise in supporting UK publishers abroad she has championed and fostered international relationships. The affect of her profession is clear within the initiatives she has launched, the friendships she has constructed and the respect she has garnered on the worldwide stage.”
The Lifetime Achievement Award committee, composed of the impartial LBF Advisory Board, chosen Gloria Bailey from a shortlist of main worldwide figures within the guide business. The Award recognises a person who has made a very vital mark within the sphere of the worldwide guide world. It’s open to publishers, brokers, editors, scouts, booksellers and anybody else concerned within the worldwide guide business from any nation on this planet.
Gloria Bailey can be offered together with her award at a reception throughout The London E-book Honest, at 5:30pm on Wednesday 12th March, on the Essential Stage. Extra particulars right here.
PREVIOUS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD WINNERS:
2024 – YoungSuk (YS) Chi, Elsevier, USA & UK
2023 – Klaus Flugge, Andersen Press, Germany
2022 – Hiroshi Hayakawa, Hayakawa Publishing, Japan
2021 – Margaret Busby, Allison & Busby, UK
2020 – Nigel Newton, Bloomsbury Publishing, UK
2019 – Dorotea Bromberg, Brombergs Bokförlag, Sweden
2018 – Sara Miller McCune, Sage Publishing, US
2017 – Luiz Schwarcz, Companhia das Letras, Brazil
2016 – Gail, Baroness Rebuck DBE, Penguin Random Home, UK
2015 – Peter Usborne, Usborne, UK
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 Schooling, UK
2004 – John Lyons, Little, Brown, UK & USA
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