Olympia London | 12 – 14 March 2024
London, 30 October 2023. The London E-book Truthful (LBF) has right now introduced the Authors of the Day line-up for the 2024 Truthful, which can characteristic Sunday Occasions best-selling writer and TV presenter Richard Osman as Grownup Creator of the Day; Taylor Jenkins Reid, writer of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, as Worldwide Creator of the Day; Waterstones Kids’s Laureate Joseph Coelho as Kids’s Creator of the Day; and Klaus Flugge Prize winner Flavia Z Drago as Illustrator of the Truthful.
L-R: Joseph Coelho (c) David Bebber; Flavia Z Drago; Richard Osman (c) Conor O’Leary; Taylor Jenkins Reid (c) Michael Buckner
Gareth Rapley, Director of The London E-book Truthful, stated: “One in every of our most celebrated and in style options of The London E-book Truthful line-up, we’re thrilled to announce the Authors of the Day and Illustrator of the Truthful for our 2024 version. As the primary main occasion in subsequent 12 months’s publishing calendar, we shall be bringing collectively an exceptional array of publishing expertise from all around the world, and Taylor, Richard, Flavia and Joseph completely encapsulate the keenness, expertise and creativity that make our business so particular. We’re actually wanting ahead to welcoming them to Olympia subsequent March, for what we’re positive shall be fascinating conversations round their careers, inspiration and mission.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid stated: “I’m honored to be the Worldwide Creator of the Day at The London E-book Truthful 2024. I’m actually excited to participate in one of many greatest occasions for the ebook business, and to return to London, one in every of my favourite cities on the earth. I can’t wait to attach and reconnect with authors, readers and publishers.”
Joseph Coelho, Kids’s Creator of the Day, stated: “I’m thrilled to be attending the 2024 London E-book Truthful as Kids’s Creator of the Day. In my position as the present Waterstones Kids’s Laureate I’ve travelled the size and breadth of the UK championing the important position of public libraries, celebrating the facility of poetry, and showcasing new expertise to diversify bookshelves and encourage bookmakers of the long run. I’m wanting ahead to sharing extra about these focal factors of my tenure – in addition to celebrating the splendidly vibrant world of youngsters’s books – on a world stage subsequent March!”
Flavia Z Drago, Illustrator of the Truthful, stated: “I used to be born in Mexico. Once I was little, I used to be fortunate sufficient to dwell in a home filled with books, and normally, those with lovely or intriguing illustrations received my curiosity first. Footage opened the doorways of curiosity; they made me need to know extra concerning the world the place I lived, and the physique through which I moved. Footage helped me encounter tales that will – or might not – have occurred years in the past, and others that may solely really exist within the creativeness. One in every of these was Two Can Toucan by David Mc Kee. I preferred it a lot that once I was about 9 or ten years outdated, I made my very own model utilizing an outdated typewriter (which made me really feel very skilled) and colouring pencils. It was additionally about the identical time once I wrote and drew my first unique story (a tragedy about my pets).
I’ve at all times cherished drawing, however I didn’t know then that I’d find yourself making image books and residing within the UK. And now, I can not consider that I’ve the honour to be named Illustrator of the Truthful on the London E-book Truthful, identical to Dapo Adeola, Lauren Little one, and naturally David McKee! Like myself, tales can journey far and vast the world over, and I hope that by way of my work, I can contribute to creating this business extra inclusive and to share one thing from my background for others to know, hoping that – even when little – we get to know, perceive, and respect one another. However particularly, I’d like to open the doorways of curiosity, for a lot of extra youngsters to come back.”
Finest often known as the creator and co-presenter of the beloved BBC quiz present Pointless, Richard Osman’s profession in tv and comedy spans greater than 20 years. In 2020, Osman broke data along with his debut novel The Thursday Homicide Membership (Penguin Books) – a humorous detective romp that includes a gaggle of pensioners sleuthing in a sleepy retirement village in Kent. In addition to changing into the quickest promoting grownup crime debut in recorded historical past, it was extensively praised by critics, with different books within the sequence together with The Man Who Died Twice, The Bullet That Missed, and The Final Satan to Die.
Waterstones Kids’s Laureate Joseph Coelho is an award-winning efficiency poet, playwright and kids’s writer. His work has poetry and efficiency at its coronary heart, drawing on over 20 years’ expertise operating dynamic inventive literacy classes in colleges. All through his profession he has highlighted the facility of poetry and studying, championing and campaigning for native libraries and spotlights new voices and variety all through his work. His image books embrace the critically acclaimed Luna Loves… sequence (Andersen Press) and If All of the World Have been… (Lincoln Kids’s Books). His work throughout poetry consists of the gathering Overheard in a Tower Block (Otter-Barry Books), and The Woman Who Grew to become a Tree (Otter-Barry Books), Different work consists of middle-grade sequence Fairytales Gone Dangerous (Walker) and YA Novel The Boy Misplaced within the Maze (Otter-Barry Books), in addition to non-fiction titles together with How To Write Poems (Bloomsbury) amongst others.
Taylor Jenkins Reid is a New York Occasions and Sunday Occasions best-selling writer, screenwriter, and Emmy-nominated producer. Her most up-to-date novel Carrie Soto Is Again debuted on the Sunday Occasions and New York Occasions Bestseller lists. Earlier this 12 months, Amazon Prime Video launched the tv adaptation of her novel Daisy Jones and the Six, and the sequence acquired 9 Emmy Award nominations. Her eight novels, together with Malibu Rising, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, One True Loves, Possibly in One other Life, After I Do and Eternally, Interrupted have been translated into over forty languages and are beloved by a formidable and devoted fan base. Her books frequently seem on “Better of the Yr…” lists, have been nominated for and gained quite a few awards, and have been chosen for a number of ebook golf equipment and packages together with Reese’s E-book Membership, Indie Subsequent, Richard & Judy, and E-book of the Month.
Flavia Z Drago was born in Mexico Metropolis, the place she grew up and studied graphic design. She research Kids’s E-book Illustration at Anglia Ruskin College in Cambridge, UK and is presently collaborating with Walker Books in London, making image books with monsters as essential characters. Her first image ebook as an writer and illustrator known as Gustavo the Shy Ghost (2020) turned #1 in The NY Occasions Finest Sellers; it was adopted by Leila the Good Witch (2022) and by Vlad the Fabulous Vampire (2023). In 2021 she was the winner of the Klaus Flugge Prize.
The Authors of the Day and Illustrator of the Truthful will participate in ‘In Dialog’ occasions on totally different days all through The London E-book Truthful. Taylor Jenkins Reid shall be attending the truthful on Tuesday 12 March, Richard Osman and Flavia Z Drago will seem at occasions on Wednesday 13 March, and Joseph Coelho shall be talking on Thursday 14 March. Full particulars of those classes shall be introduced shortly.
The London E-book Truthful (LBF) is the world’s largest spring ebook commerce and publishing occasion, and can return to its residence at Olympia London from 12 – 14 March 2024.
The total programme for The London E-book Truthful 2024 shall be introduced early subsequent 12 months.
