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New ideas _January Taipei International _September Book Exhibition* Cairo International Book Fair* Taipei, 7 – 12 May Toronto International Cairo, 22 January – 4 February Film Festival* Salone internazionale Publishers' Tour del libro di Torino* Toronto, 10 – 20 September _March Authors programme With new neighbours come new relationships and business opportunities: In 2020 Turin, 14 – 18 May Göteborg Book Fair* a new hall layout will come into effect at Frankfurter Buchmesse, offering exhibitors London Book Fair Göteborg, 24 – 27 September and visitors the opportunity to connect with new business contacts and establish London, 10 – 12 March Festival de Cannes* Germany as Guest of Honour new relations. This year we’re also taking a fresh approach to our conference Publishers' Tour SXSW Conference & Festivals* in Indonesia: programme, providing insights, expert talks and inspirational speeches all in one Cannes, 18 – 19 May Conference program Jakarta International Literary afternoon, and bringing people together who might not otherwise meet at the fair. Austin, 13 – 22 March International Arsenal Festival* This creates a more fertile ground for the meeting of minds that’s so important at Livre Paris* Book Festival* LitBeat Festival* the world’s biggest marketplace for ideas. We are entering into new ventures abroad Paris, 20 – 23 March Kiev, 20 – 24 May Indonesia International Book Fair* as well, including more interaction with the film world and new guest appearances Warsaw Book Fair* Jakarta, 9 – 13 September at other book fairs. One thing stays the same though: Frankfurter Buchmesse Bologna Children’s Book Fair* Warsaw, 21 – 24 May and the German collective stands around the world will always be places for Bologna, 30 March – 2 April international dialogue in conducive surroundings, for exhibitors and visitors alike. _October _June _April International Istanbul Tehran International Book Fair* Seoul International Book Fair* Book Fair* Seoul, 24 – 28 June Istanbul, 31 October – 8 November Talking to publishers and our Tehran, 14 – 24 April presence at the book fair gave us Abu Dhabi International an overview of the new releases, Book Fair** _July _November “as well as insights into the German- Abu Dhabi, 15 – 21 April Festa Literária Internacional Feria Internacional del Libro language literary scene. That kind Feria Internacional del Libro de de Paraty (FLIP)* de Guadalajara** of information is really valuable Buenos Aires* Publishers' Tour Guadalajara, 28 November – for us translators. Being part of the invitation Buenos Aires, 28 April – 18 May Paraty, 29 July – 2 August 6 December embe programme was a real eye-opener

Claudia Cabrera and inside look into how the Mexico, participant International _December r “business of international publishing _May _August Translators Programme 2019 ” works. The programme opened the Moscow non/fiction* see page 9 Thessaloniki International Beijing International door wide to massive opportunities Moscow, 2 – 6 December Book Fair* Book Fair** for a small publisher like us to Guest of Honour Germany Beijing, 26 – 30 August play in the big leagues – what a Thessaloniki, 7 – 10 May rewarding experience! Frankfurter Buchmesse is a multi- Contact pavilion hadron collider that builds Deborah Ahenkorah CEO and publisher African Bureau Stories, Bärbel Becker spaces for uncompromising discus- Ghana, participant Invitation Programme ” Director International Projects, “sion. It is the most affirming project 2019 Frankfurter Buchmesse I’ve ever seen: there are no areas of see page 9 exclusion, everything is there to be Phone: +49 (0) 69 2102-258 achieved and applied. [email protected] * Supported by ** Commissioned by

Elena Rymshina buchmesse.de/ State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia german_collective_stands see page 7 ” 2 3 Germany

Thessaloniki In 2020, Germany will be welcomed as Guest of Honour at the Thessaloniki Book Fair in the youthful and vibrant cultural capital of Greece. This is the most significant literary event in the country and as much a festival as it is a trade fair. The 2020 fair will address a range of important topics relevant to Europe’s social and political debates. It will also host a New Writers Festival, which will include young German authors and provide a backdrop to the many profes- world sional discussions. Under the slogan German Stories, Frankfurter Buchmesse and the German collective stand will take centre stage with the book collections, invited authors and much more besides. Lights! Cameras! Action! Publishers’ Tour of Cannes

On 18 and 19 May we’ll be attending the Jakarta Cannes Film Festival with a small group The capital of Indonesia is a megacity and of industry professionals. While the stars a melting pot of nations and cultures. Here The events at a glance: strut the red carpet, our participants can in 2020, Germany will enjoy a threefold meet film producers at exclusive networking appearance as the city’s literary guest: at the Thessaloniki International Book Fair, events and promote selected books at one Jakarta International Literary Festival and Guest of Honour Germany | of the world’s leading film festivals. They will the Indonesia International Book Fair in Thessaloniki, 7 – 10 May 2020 also receive advice from our own film expert September, and at the LitBeat Festival, and benefit from accreditation for the where literature meets films and games, Festival de Cannes, Publishers Tour | festival itself and for the prestigious and where the book industry can Cannes, 18 – 19 May 2020 Marché du Film, including the two-day collaborate with the creative industries. pitching event, Shoot the Book! At all these events, German-language Germany as Guest of Honour Participation is open to publishers and film in Indonesia: authors and publishers will speak alongside agents from German-speaking countries as Jakarta International Literary Festival, Indonesian colleagues on topics ranging well as countries due to be Guests of Honour LitBeat Festival, from social and environmental themes to at Frankfurter Buchmesse: Canada, Spain, Indonesia International Book Fair | fiction and poetry. At the LitBeat, German Jakarta, 9 – 13 September 2020 Slovenia and Italy. The small number of and Indonesian publishers can form tight places available will be allocated by networks through the Indonesia Partner- a jury. A similar tour will be organised in ship Programme and the Jakarta Fellowship September for the Toronto International Programme. Film Festival. © Terry Lin German collective stand at Taipei 4 International Book Exhibition 2019 5 Our offices The global abroad community of books

International networks Meet, learn and grow and local knowledge Beijing Book Information Centre (BIZ) at our international events buchmesse.de/beijing The Frankfurter Buchmesse international offices German Book Office (GBO) provide us with a foothold in important commer- New Delhi With regular conferences and a wide range cial centres on four continents. As well as being buchmesse.de/newdelhi of commercial and cultural projects, every a showcase for German books and publishing, Southeast Asia year Frankfurter Buchmesse and its offices each office is a gateway for German and contact point: abroad support the aspirations and business international publishers hoping to enter these Jakarta, Indonesia activities of people in publishing and related regional markets, and the first point of contact Claudia Kaiser fields. We bring them closer together and for publishers, booksellers and service providers Vice President provide opportunities to share and learn – from the respective region looking to do business Frankfurter Buchmesse from each other and from respected experts – in Germany or to attend the Frankfurter Buchmesse. Jakarta, Indonesia and to establish new partnerships for the [email protected] future. © Frankfurter Buchmesse

StoryDrive, 2019

Thanks to Frankfurter Buchmesse for Moscow Book Information giving us a chance to engage in the Centre (BIZ) “Maximizing Impact” is the title of the CONTEC Mexico is an event for expert books and creative industry and to Anastasia Milekhina Publishers Training Programme at the Taipei discussions about digital innovation, and for “spread the word about the latest trends Director International Book Exhibition. The two-day collaboration in the fields of publishing and around the world, and above all for [email protected] event will provide insights into two funda- technology. supporting those who build bridges buchmesse.de/moscow mental areas of publishing: marketing and When & where: 18 – 19 February, Centro between cultures but who wouldn’t licensing. Cultural de España, Mexico City, Mexico otherwise have the opportunity to When & where: 7 – 12 May, at the Taipei act globally. Frankfurt Book Fair World Trade Center, Taiwan StoryDrive Asia New York Inc. tibe.org.tw/en/activity Orientation, assistance and useful contacts Riky Stock are available at StoryDrive Asia to help you Tatiana Zborovskaya Vice President The theme for the 2020 FESTIVAL NEUE develop crossmedia business opportunities ”participant International [email protected] LITERATUR in New York is “Change – turn in today’s convergent media landscape. Translators Programme 2019 buchmesse.de/new-york around and face the strange”. The festival When & where: November, Singapore brings together new writing from Austria, Germany, Switzerland and the United States GARAGE school for publishers Brazil contact point for the benefit of New York audiences. In collaboration with Moscow's modern art It was a pleasure to meet with so many Ricardo Costa It is the only event to spotlight German- museum, GARAGE, we are again offering a global publishers and to trust that you Associate Partner, language and American fiction. school for publishers and marketing agents and your team were keeping things Frankfurter Buchmesse The festival is the product of extensive from larger and smaller publishing houses “running smoothly. Reliable timekeeping, São Paulo, Brazil cooperation. Please visit the website for When & where: 21 – 23 April, in the Educational at-table snacks and water, a reason- [email protected] a full list of partners. Center of the GARAGE Museum, Moscow, Russia able number of well-catered breaks – When & where: 23 – 26 April, diverse you thought of everything! addresses in Brooklyn and Manhattan, New York, USA Katherine McGuire festivalneueliteratur.org Stay tuned for updates: Quirk Books, at the Children's Books Salon ” buchmesse.de/international-conferences in February 2019, in New York

6 7 The Frankfurt Relationships book collections that span the globe

Topical, insightful and creative Highlights in 2020 A growing global family

German-language publishing The Fall of the Berlin Wall – Frankfurter Buchmesse organises fellow- The Frankfurt Invitation Programme, which Stories between East and West | ship and grant programmes to enhance receives funding from the German Federal The book collections of Frankfurter Buchmesse An eclectic mix of fiction and non- international cooperation across the Foreign Office, supports publishers from fiction marking the 30th anniversary highlight different genres, from children’s publishing industry. Participants gain developing countries and emerging econo- of the end of the Wall and asking literature to graphic novels; they mark experience and make contacts that stay mies. The programme offers 20 participants what it still means to us today important anniversaries; and they examine with them for the rest of their careers. a presence at Frankfurter Buchmesse, and also important social and political trends, such as The Future Starts Now | includes an invaluable publishing seminar. the impacts of artificial intelligence on society Anthropocene – the age Every year, 16 new faces from different and democracy. This year is no exception, of human influence on countries sign up for the Frankfurt Fellowship Translation is at the heart of our business at with topics ranging from a timely assessment nature and climate Programme. Two weeks of intensive inter- Frankfurter Buchmesse. As such we are keen of the Anthropocene age to a celebration of action with publishing professionals in Germany to support the work and development of one of the world’s greatest composers. Book to Film | A collection of connects them with colleagues from all over translators. Last year this manifested itself in We display these collections to trade and biographical works about the world and gives them a good idea of the first Frankfurt International Translators private visitors alike, at numerous international important German directors the German publishing landscape. They Programme aimed at literary and non-fiction book fairs (see page 3), or online at finish their trip by attending the book fair in translators who translate from German. buchmesse.de/booksontour . 250 years of Frankfurt. In 2019 the Frankfurt Fellows also Some 30 translators from around the world Ludwig van Beethoven visited Switzerland for the first time, with the took part in the exclusive exchange and help of the Swiss Booksellers and Publishers networking events. The next edition of the Association and the Pro Helvetia Cultural programme will be taking place in 2021. Foundation. This year's intake will have a special focus on children’s and young adult With its Young Talent Initiatives in coopera- books. tion with partners from eight countries, the frankfurt Frankfurter Buchmesse honours and promotes up-and-coming talents of the magazine – publishing industry. A group of award- winning young professionals are invited German Stories to Frankfurt to participate in a programme during the book fair week. Which German books have been made into successful films? What buchmesse.de/fellowship-programmes will Frankfurter Buchmesse be Not only did we visit a wide range of doing at the Berlinale, Cannes publishers – from independents to the Contact and Toronto film festivals? What biggest in the country – and learn a lot did publisher Regina Kammerer, “about the children's book market in Niki Théron (Luchterhand Literaturverlag & Germany, we also made lasting friendships. Manager International Projects btb Verlag) discuss with Juergen Six years later, I'm still friends with Frankfurter Buchmesse Boos? In the frankfurt magazine the Fellows. [email protected] we present articles and features that build on this year’s themes Fiz Osborne Marifé Boix Garcia and book collections, and share a Editorial Director, Illustrated Books, Vice President wealth of insights into the German Scholastic UK” Frankfurter Buchmesse Frankfurt Fellow 2014 publishing and book industry. invitationprogramme@ buchmesse.de buchmesse.de/frankfurtmagazine

8 9 Synergies and Guest of Honour 2020 networking Canada

A new conference format Singular Plurality | Singulier Pluriel in Frankfurt

Frankfurter Buchmesse hosts a number of Complementing the new conference format, Every year, Frankurter Buchmesse invites Books on Canada | Frankfurter Buchmesse’s special conferences that highlight some established platforms and events for the a different Guest of Honour to present its international book exhibition devoted to of the publishing industry’s most important international book trade are still there for literature and culture to the world. Now it the Guest of Honour, which allows publishers trends and explore new business models. you, including the Literary Agents & Scouts is Canada's turn. Throughout 2020, under from around the world to present books from The conferences cover diverse topics, from Centre (LitAg) and the Publishers Rights the slogan 'Singular Plurality | Singulier Pluriel', or about Canada, be they translations audiobooks and film rights, to artificial Corner. Likewise THE ARTS+, “the showroom Canada is bringing a wide range of literary of Canadian literature, or books on the intelligence and open access, and they for the future of the cultural and creative and cultural activities to Germany, culminating country’s culture, history and politics. reach wide and varied audiences. industries”, makes a welcome fifth outing. in a festival of Canadian literature and arts at Frankfurter Buchmesse in October. With We are adapting our conference formats famous authors such as Margaret Atwood, to reflect the convergence of the media and Find out more here: Michael Ondaatje and Nobel laureate Alice the breaking up of the silo mentality. As of Munro, and with vibrant contributions to this year, we will hold one main conference Literary Agents & Scouts Centre: contemporary music and the arts, Canada is that looks at big-picture strategies, before buchmesse.de/litag a major presence on today’s global cultural dividing into specialised sessions. This event stage. Now you can go behind the scenes also offers the industry a new hub for Publishers Rights Corner: to find out more: experience the 'singular networking. More information on this important buchmesse.de/prc plurality' of Canada’s artistic and cultural life. industry meeting will be available soon. THE ARTS+: buchmesse.de/artsplus

Canada’s vibrant book industry will be the star of our celebration in 2020, from rising buchmesse.de/conference and emerging writers and illustrators to “the highly acclaimed and renowned authors. We will reveal powerful writing from all literary genres and from French, English and Indigenous voices, while still heralding the myriad backgrounds that represent our country.” Contact Caroline Fortin President, Simone Bühler Canada FBM2020” Head of the Guest of Honour Programme [email protected]

Further information about the Guest of Honour Canada: buchmesse.de/guest-of-honour

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