Nathan Dunne, founder and editorial director of the Book Source
Trade news site The Book publishing industry in Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific. Founded by Nathan Dunne, the site aims to eliminate barriers to industry knowledge
The Bookaland and the wider Asia-Pacific. It brings deals, people moves, prizes, funding, jobs, events, industry news and rights into one place, with every item linked to its original announcement and no paywall
It comes with two newsletters, both arriving at 7am. The Inside Track goes out every Monday and Wednesday, and The Deal Sheet rounds up every deal of the week on Friday. Each deal also gets its own shareable Deal Sheet card, and a Rights Guide brings together the international book fair calendar and the translation funds open to local publishers.
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Nathan Dunne is the Founder and Editorial Director of The Book, 2025), a memoir about living with depersonalisation, a frequently misunderstood mental illness, and the translator of The Honey (World Poetry Books, 2026), a book of poems by the Italian poet and screenwriter Tonino Guerra
As a journalist and critic he has written for The Paris Review, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, Slate, Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub and Artforum, reporting from four continents. His short stories have appeared in The Dublin Review, Meanjin and Quadrant.
Born in Brisbane and raised in India, he graduated from the University of Sydney with the University Medal, studied art history at Cambridge University and received a PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London. He has lectured at Harvard and Yale and worked for several years at Tate Modern.
“Australian and New Zealand publishing is full of brilliant people and books, but too often the information about how the industry actually works has been locked away, open only to those already on the inside. I started The Bookhe most practical way I know to support Australian literature and the people who make it,” founder Nathan Dunne said
