In association with Frankfurter Buchmesse, Aficionado Award at Torino’s Fair nominates Seagull Books (Calcutta), La disparition (Marseille), and zoraLIT (Berlin). An early-fair event at the 37th Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino with VIP guests and attendees. Image: SILT By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson See also: Torino Rights Center: 450 Registered, Plus 70 Fellows […]
Europe’s DemRead project—’Democracies Depend on Reading’—launches in the autumn. The World Expression Forum has an update. Reading by the Nidelven in Trondheim. Image – Getty: MartinPBGV By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson See also:Norway’s World Expression Forum in a ‘Year of Resistance’The IPA Prix Voltaire Announces Its 2025 ShortlistNorway’s WEXFO: New Dates, Early Notes on
The 2027 Frankfurter Buchmesse guest of honor, Chile, hosts a CONTEC conference with visiting publishers. Among the speakers at this week’s CONTEC from Frankfurter Buchmesse in Santiago de Chile are, from left, Ralf Biesemeier of Germany’s Zebralution; Pola Iriarte, a Chilean translator; Diven Nagpal of India’s Seagull Books; and Chilean journalist, writer, and literary agent
Madrid’s Readmagine opens with the values that publishing finds in new developments: good training and talent. At the 2024 edition of Readmagine at the Madrid headquarters of the Fundación Germán Sánchez Ruipérez. Image: Publishing Perspectives, Porter Anderson By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Talent Attraction and Training in Publishing Having cleared its first decade, the
France Livre’s fourth annual Paris Book Market for international rights sales drew an enthusiastic response from many who attended. At the 2025 Paris Book Market. Image: Publishing Perspectives, Eric Dupuy By Eric Dupuy | @duperico Approximately 3,800 Rights-Trading Meetings As Publishing Perspectives previewed last week, the Paris Book Market is a targeted professional rights-trading fair, this
The Brussels book fair, which can draw as many as 80,000 attendees, runs through Sunday, March 16. Foire du Livre, in Brussels. Image: FBM By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Guest Artists and Events in Brussels The Foire du Livre de Bruxelles, somehow getting itself into some overlapping dates with London Book Fair (March 11
Richard Charkin travels to Frankfurter Buchmesse’s 2027 guest of honor, Chile, to learn more about the market. At the Chilean National Library. Image: Publishing Perspectives, Richard Charkin By Richard Charkin | @RCharkin ‘The Best Place To View the Milky Way’ Shamefully, until last week, I knew little about Frankfurter Buchmesse‘s 2027 guest of honor, Chile,
‘Giving the Banned Book a Voice’ is the title of a kick-off event in Germany’s May Freedom of Expression Week. A railway platform in Berlin, seen from a train window. Image – Getty: Sarah Kitster By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘Arguing Better’ As Publishing Perspectives readers are aware, the 2025 edition of Germany’s still-young
The market’s well-developed children’s sector will be on display at the Philippine National Stand at Bologna Children’s Book Fair, Hall 30. Sponsored. Susan Natividad, the Philippine ambassador to German, speaks at a March 21 Frankfurter Buchmesse news conference in Berlin. Image: FBM By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Frankfurt’s Guest of Honor Makes a Stop
Boualem Sansal is said to have told Algiers’ court: ‘My comments or writings were simply a personal opinion, and I have the right to make them like any Algerian citizen.’ Boualem Sansal. Image: Creative Commons, PEN International By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Macron Demands ‘Humanitarian Decisions From Algiers’ In a sharply intensifying appeal, the
