Awards! None other than Guus Kuijer will be awarded this year’s Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award! Most of us grew up with Kuijer’s many, many books, and feel he is very deserving of the award. Congratulations! Sadly there are no English translations of his work currently in print, but hopefully this will all change now. 
- Interview! Well, a Q&A, rather, with Graham Swift on his latest, Wish You Were Here (via the Guardian).
- Selexyz has asked for a suspension of payment (article in Dutch). Dire news indeed.
We wish all our colleagues the best, and hope that a good solution can be reached soon.
- Pot and publishing houses. And for once not related to the Netherlands! Melville House immediately jumped on the bandwagon with a slideshow of 10 Marijuana Loving Authors.
We’ve been fans of The Hunger Games for a while now here at ABC, and it seems that teachers might be getting around to this multi-layered trilogy now as well.
- Quiz! Flavorwire challenges you to identify writers based on their prose alone, and the Guardian has a Beatrix Potter-themed quiz.
- And finally, Alicia Martín’s solution to the everlasting problem of not having enough space for your books (via Flavorwire):
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