2021 Show Magazine

SPOTLIGHT ON RIGHTS & PUBLISHING IN THE ARAB GERMANY GUEST OF HONOR TRANSLATION — PAGE 7 WORLD — PAGE 8 PROGRAM — PAGE 11 2021 SHOW MAGAZINE Subscribe FREE to Publishing Perspectives’ daily news at publishingperspectives.com/subscribe PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES | ABU DHABI 2021 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Abu Dhabi Book Fair 2021: Inside This Issue 3 Letter from the Editor 4 Dr. Ali Bin Tamim’s View on ADIBF 5 ‘Global Aspirations’ with Mouza Al Shamsi #ADIBF: 6 30 Years of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair Get More from 7 Spotlight on Rights: Translation Grants Publishing 8 Arab Publishers Association: Publishing in the Pandemic Perspectives 10 Germany in the ADIBF Spotlight Interactive Magazine 11 Germany’s Hybrid Guest of Honor Program This digital magazine includes links on every page so you can click through to events, com- 13 Top Arab-World Authors at ADIBF panies, and find more information. Look for buttons and underlined text. 15 Banipal Magazine Publisher Margaret Obank 17 Connect with the Sheikh Zayed Book Award Online Coverage 18 ADIBF Event Highlights We’re providing ongoing coverage of the 2021 Abu Dhabi International Book Fair during the 20 Author Interview: Salha Obaid show and beyond, including reports on events, announcements, and more 21 Author Interview: Pierre Jarawan ABU DHABI COVERAGE 22 Author Interview: Ulla Lenze 23 Egyptian Publishers Turn to E-Commerce Event Recommendations 24 Obeikan Publishing on Digital Change Visit our landing page of curated digital events taking place during the fair. 25 Dar Al Buragh’s Children’s Books EVENTS PAGE 26 Dar Al Tanweer on Licensing and Exports 27 Arabic-to-English Translator Marilyn Booth ADIBF Videos and Online Events 28 Bookwire on Digital Possibilities in Publishing Many events in the ADIBF program will be broadcast online for remote participants. ADIBF ON YOUTUBE Publishing Perspectives brings you news and information from the world of book publishing — each weekday, to your inbox. Email Newsletters During ADIBF, we’re releasing special news- Subscribe FREE to receive letter editions that include more stories, event our email newsletters > highlights, and news from the fair. SUBSCRIBE FREE PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES | ABU DHABI 2021 3 FROM PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES From the Editor: A Fair Piled High With Books Publishing Perspectives is a leading source of information about the global book publishing business. Since 2009, we have been publishing daily email editions with news and features from across the book world. Our mission is to help build and contribute to the international publishing community by offering information that publishing and media professionals need to connect, cooperate, and work together year-round and across borders. In addition to our daily online coverage, we also offer an online monthly rights edition, as well as special issues and magazines at events including the London Book Fair and the Frankfurt Book Fair. Founded by the German Book Office New York and now a project of the Frankfurt Book s we’ve interviewed key figures in Arab The Sharjah Book Authority’s fair in Fair New York, Publishing Perspectives works Aregion publishing for this special mag- November was the first pandemic-era at- with our colleagues in Frankfurt and the fair’s azine, our Publishing Perspectives team has tempt to stage a physical show in the region, international offices to share with you the latest heard one thing emphasized perhaps more and reported an avid attendance of 382,000. publishing trends and opportunities, people to than any other: the critical importance of And as the Sharjah Children’s Reading know, companies to watch, and more. book fairs. And this has to do with one of Festival goes forward this month, the Abu the most striking elements of the Abu Dha- Dhabi International Book Fair now joins the bi International Book Fair when you walk effort to restart this pivotal element of the onto its exhibition floor. region’s literary life and business: a major Spacious and modern, the Abu Dha- fair that was sorely missed in 2020. PUBLISHER : Hannah Johnson bi National Exhibition Centre’s vast lob- In our magazine, you’ll learn about the EDITOR-IN-CHIEF : Porter Anderson bies alone could house some of the world’s fair as one in which you can participate, ADVERTISING MANAGER: Meike Eckern largest book fairs on their gleaming marble either on the ground or from continents floors. away. The entire show’s programming is be- But walk from those lobbies onto the ing streamed for domestic and international CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE: exhibition floor, and you find that the viewers. In our pages, you’ll meet some of Chip Rosetti 73,000-square-meter space is filled with the exhibitors, speakers, and key leadership Olivia Snaije stacks and stacks of books. Unlike book fairs figures involved. Here, you’ll find everything Roger Tagholm in Europe at which a publisher might display you need to get the most from the show, ei- one copy of each key book on its new sea- ther in person or online–from a huge offer son’s list, the stands at Abu Dhabi are brim- of 300 grants supporting translation, to ses- PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES ming with books. There’s no empty counter sions from Guest of Honor Germany; from a project of Frankfurt Book Fair space at a stand—it’s covered with books. So facts and figures, to observations and news 30 Irving Place, 4th Floor is the floor underneath that counter. Strike about the Sheikh Zayed Book Award and New York, NY 10003, United States up a conversation with a friendly publisher the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. and you’ll find that she or he has a chair in And look for our coverage of selected Online at publishingperspectives.com the stand, but that chair is surrounded by moments from the ADIBF. boxes of books. In our story with Dr. Ali Bin Tamim, All these books, of course, are the in- the chair of the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language ventory. And youngsters visiting the fair Centre, you’ll hear the goal of this year’s pull vibrantly colored wheeled trolleys show. He’s calling for Abu Dhabi Interna- CONNECT WITH US ONLINE: behind them—they look like rollaboards— tional Book Fair to provide “a restorative filled with the books they’ve chosen. Some economic and cultural space.” of the kids are barely as big as their trolleys. After such a difficult 15 months—plac- It’s an unforgettable sight. And it’s an ing the lives and livelihoods of publishing’s indispensable part of an Arab world pub- people under so much pressure—”resto- lisher’s annual revenue. As Arab Publishers ration” is an apt term, indeed. Association president Mohamed Rashad Welcome back to the book fair. tells us in our interview for this magazine, OUR PARTNER: some publishers in the Middle East may have two major streams of revenue: gov- ernment programs’ purchases of books and Porter Anderson book fair sales. Clearly, the coronavirus Editor-in-Chief, COVID-19 pandemic’s initial cancellation of Publishing book fairs dealt a severe blow to publishers, Perspectives right across the region. PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES | ABU DHABI 2021 4 INSIDE ADIBF Dr. Ali Bin Tamim: ADIBF as a ‘Restorative Economic and Cultural Space’ Heading the fair’s 2021 program, Dr. Ali Bin Tamim knows the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair’s critical role in helping the book industry recover from the pandemic. “We’re harnessing the power of technology to bridge gaps and ... expand our reach and maximize opportunities.” Dr. Ali Bin Tamim Dr. Ali Bin Tamim (Image: DCT Abu Dhabi) By Porter Anderson of the Arab world’s pandemic-weary publish- younger demographic, and we’re working in ing industry. line with that vision to extend our support to One of these solutions involves the fair’s them in multiple ways.” hile some might think that the Abu launch of the first digital platform for literary Bin Tamim refers to a Ministry of Cul- WDhabi International Book Fair’s hybrid rights sales in the Arab region. It’s a timely ture and Youth report that has indeed point- format this year suggests a small physical fair, step–as many in the region tell us that the pan- ed out, as he says, “the need to drive younger that’s hardly the case. demic has brought into sharp relief the indus- people toward reading and authoring.” And, As Dr. Ali Bin Tamim has announced, try’s need for more fluency in online sales and of course, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award pro- there are more than 104 sessions being staged e-commerce. Bin Tamim also has overseen an gram he leads includes among its eight book in the physical setting and digitally in this fair, expansion in the number of translation grants categories a Young Author prize, which this and the show is to be fully streamed for those available this year to an unprecedented 300, year has gone to Saudi Arabia’s Asma Bint watching from many parts of the world, with under the fair’s “Spotlight on Rights” initiative. Muqbel Bin Awad Al-Amadi. translation provided. He also has cited more Bin Tamim and his team have a proud Bringing together such a large and com- than 800 exhibitors, more than 500,000 titles track record on which to stand up this year’s plex project as the Abu Dhabi International on display both on-site and in the digital space, special edition of the fair. In its last all-physical Book Fair in a time of such crisis, needless and participation from at least 46 nations in- evocation in 2019, the show registered 149,000 to say, is no walk through the park.

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