More than 100 countries are represented every year at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Each hall is a microcosm in its own right and worth getting to know. In the third part of our series, we ask exhibitors from Europe what brings them to Frankfurt.
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On the one hand, there is more common ground than you think. On the other, China is an unknown world. This is also true of Chinese literature. An attempt to get closer.
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Despite all the prophecies of doom, there was optimism in Bologna this year. The crisis has not yet reached the children's and young adult book sector. Nor has digitisation. Or has it?
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There was no sign of the worldwide economic crisis at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair (ADIBF). The fair was booked solid, and with 637 exhibitors from 52 countries, was more international and more professional than ever before.
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Henning Mankell is known the world over and his central character, Kurt Wallander, has garnered many fans. The author has now attended the book fair in Abu Dhabi for the first time and talked to us about books, writing, and his next project.
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International reading cultures come with surprising amount of variety, with fewer English-language and more domestic authors than one would suspect. An analysis from Rüdiger Wischenbart.
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Globalisation, digitisation - and now the economic crisis, too. The challenges facing independent publishing companies just keep getting bigger. How can their survival be secured? Does the state have a duty to step in?
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"New Children's Books": Rights still available --- Frankfurt Book Fair Fellowship Programme deadline
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Austria --- Germany --- Spain --- Sweden --- UK --- Abu Dhabi/United Arab Emirates --- USA
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