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Show Daily Magazine WEDNESDAY, 10 October 2018 | FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR | publishingperspectives.com At the opening press conference of the Frankfurt Book Fair on Tuesday, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie poses for a selfie with fans. (Image: Johannes Minkus) ‘Women Are Speaking Up,” Says Adichie From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s ringing keynote—“We must say what is true”—to a call for consumer awareness at The Markets 2018 conference, the 70th Frankfurter Buchmesse is powered by politics and prospects for prosperity. PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES / FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR 2018 1 FROM PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES Letter from the Editor: Wednesday New at the Fair: Frankfurt Pavilion wo themes were in his keynote address at The Mar- Tdiscernible on the kets conference Tuesday, told his eve of the Frankfurter audience, “We need to understand Buchmesse this year: as much as we can about our con- one theme humanitarian and the sumers and their behaviors.” other business. Tending to the soul of society, From Heinrich Riethmüller, the Nigerian author and world cit- chair of the German Publishers izen Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Booksellers Association, came said in her ringing address at the a clear statement at the opening news conference that men simply press conference that publishing aren’t listening. It’s time, she said, must “promote culture and edu- for men to read women. Inside the Frankfurt Pavilion (Image: Thomas Minkus) cation, while also contributing to The twin 70th anniversaries mutual understanding, dialogue of the Frankfurter Buchmesse and and peaceful coexistence.” the UN Declaration of Human alking through the Agora place in the Frankfurt Pavilion this His concerns are understood Rights have converged this year in Wthis year, you’ll see the new year, including yesterday’s opening easily as we are in the second year a field fired by partisan tension. Frankfurt Pavilion right at the press conference with author Chi- of the Trump administration in the Maybe those two great themes center. The program for this new mamanda Ngozi Adichie, today’s States and the last year in which are really one, then. Business suc- event space has been developed by CEO Talk with Macmillan CEO the UK is to be part of the EU. ceeds when it listens to the needs the Frankfurt Book Fair in cooper- John Sargent, as well as a number And as for the more busi- of society. ation with many literary, cultural, of events with internationally rec- ness-directed observations, those and publishing organizations. ognized authors like Dmitry Gluk- were sounded by HarperCollins —Porter Anderson A number of the book fair’s hovsky, Cixin Liu, Maja Lunde, UK CEO Charlie Redmayne, who, Editor-in-Chief high-profile events are taking Meg Wolitzer, and Deniz Yücel. • Today’s Event Highlights: Wednesday 10 October Artificial Intelligence in Women’s Prize for Fiction Scholarly Publishing 13:00–13:30 11:00–11:30 International Stage, Academic & Business Hall 5.1 A128 Information Stage, Hall 4.2 N101 Kamila Shamsie, the 2018 winner, ABOUT PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES Where is AI already used and with will talk with Joanna Prior (MD Publishing Perspectives is the leading source of information about the global book what success? 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Book Fair and Gourmand Inter- John Sargent will be interviewed national are joining forces to orga- for 60 minutes by the editors of nize the Gourmet Gallery: explore the trade publications on changing PUBLISHER : Hannah Johnson CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE: this area of 80 exhibitors from consumer habits and new interna- EDITOR-IN-CHIEF : Porter Anderson Jaroslaw Adamowski over 30 countries that participate. tional media competition around BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT : Erin Cox Marie Bilde Carla Douglas storytelling. 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Orga- publishingperspectives.com lishing industry. nized by Carl Hanser Verlag. 2 PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES / FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR 2018 NEWS FROM THE FAIR PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES / FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR 2018 3 OPENING PRESS CONFERENCE Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie sits between Juergen Boos, Director of the Frankfurt Book Fair, and Heinrich Riethmüller, Chair of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association, at the fair’s opening press conference on Tuesday (Image: Johannes Minkus) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘Literature Does Matter’ By Roger Tagholm where many people believe that videotaped in a public bathroom large numbers of women simply to women in the west being ‘slut- wake up one day and make up sto- shamed’ because they are sexual he Nigerian novelist Chimam- ries about having been assaulted. I beings. It exists in the world of lit- Tanda Ngozi Adichie was given know many women who want to erature too, where women writers “We need more a rock star’s welcome at the fair’s be famous; I don’t know one single are expected to make their female opening press conference yester- woman who wants to be famous characters likeable as though the stories that are day—entirely appropriate for a for having been assaulted. To be- full humanity of a female person writer whose work has been sam- lieve this is to think very lowly must in the end meet the careful political, but pled by Beyoncé—with extended of women. The Supreme Court limitations of likability.” applause and cheers and an almost Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has She ended—to rapturous ap- also more stories palpable outpouring of affection. spoken of how she was once asked, plause—by saying, “We need more that are not She did not disappoint, and in a ‘How many justices of the Supreme stories that are political, but also wide-ranging speech that touched Court need to be women for it to more stories that are not political. political. We on women’s rights and the impor- seem fair to you?’ and her response We are emotional beings. Litera- tance of writing, she said that the was ‘All nine of them.’ And she ture does matter, and we need its are emotional world was “shifting and darkening said people were often shocked stories of grief, beauty and love.” . the most powerful country in and would say ‘Oh but that’s not Earlier Heinrich Riethmüller, beings. the world feels like a feudal court, fair,’ and of course for many years head of the German Publishers full of intrigue, of mendacity, all nine justices were men and it and Booksellers Association, spoke Literature does drowning in its own hubris.” As seemed normal, just as it seems of the fair’s On the Same Page cam- everyone hoped she would, she normal to me that most of the po- paign, which celebrates the 70th matter, and we made direct reference to the ap- sitions of real power in the world anniversary of the UN Declaration pointment of Brett Kavanaugh to are occupied by men. Women are of Human Rights, and how book- need its stories the US Supreme Court, despite still invisible.” shops and publishers “have a re- allegations of sexual misconduct She talked about being asked to sponsibility to society based on the of grief, beauty made by two women. cover her arms when she revisited importance of human rights and She led up to it with com- her childhood church in her native telling many different stories.” He and love.” ments on the lack of visibility for Nigeria and said that “this need to noted that, at the sharp end, figures women’s voice. “The stories of control women’s bodies exists ev- for the German book market were —Chimamanda Ngozi women are not truly familiar, the erywhere—from the woman in the pretty good, just down 1.1 percent Adichie stories of women are not yet seen Middle East being told to cover for September 2018 over last year. as universal,” she said. “This to me up when she doesn’t want to, to “And we are optimistic for a good is why we seem to live in a world the woman in Asia who is secretly autumn and Christmas.” • 4 PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES / FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR 2018 GERMAN LITERATURE Inger-Maria Mahlke Wins the 2018 German Book Prize By Hannah Johnson ethmüller, Chairman of the Ger- thors receive €2,500 each.