Daily Newsletter Tuesday, 14/10/2008

Air Kisses at the Hof

Prior to the official opening of the Book Fair's International Agents & Scouts Centre in Hall 6.2, agents and publishers are already deal-making. The action is in the lobbies and bars of the Frankfurter Hof and the Hessischer Hof.

14/10/2009

Frankfurt by the Numbers

Juergen Boos, Director of the Frankfurt Book Fair, announced in his speech at this year’s Opening Press Conference that there are some 7,400 exhibitors present in the fair halls this year - 7,373 to be exact.

14/10/2009

Oh Paulo!

One of the most popular writers on the planet, Paulo Coelho, has sold than 100 million books. The Brazilian "Alchemist of Words" opened the Frankfurt Book Fair with a keynote speech this morning entitled "The writer as pop star" in which he discussed his use of digital publishing tools to reach his massive audience.

14/10/2009

Tellkamp wins German Book Prize

A novel about the last days of East Germany, Uwe Tellkamp's "Der Turm" ("The Tower") is this year’s winner of the 25,000 euro German Book Prize, Germany’s premier award for fiction. The novel was only published in September in Germany.

14/10/2009

Want to change the world? Teach girls to read!

Among the opening speeches of the second annual LitCam conference, which this year focused on the topic of multilingualism and interculturalism in Europe and abroad, was a seemingly simple, yet radical solution to at least some of the world’s troubles: Teach girls to read.

14/10/2009

Frankfurt sends Fellows up the River

A pleasant cruise up Frankfurt’s Main river on the aptly-named "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" was in order Monday night for those lucky individuals chosen to participate in the Frankfurt Book Fair’s successful fellowship and invitation programmes.

14/10/2009

Canada, Australia and New Zealand agree to form a 'coalition'

By a unanimous show of hands, publishers from Canada, Australia and New Zealand voted to pursue closer cooperation between the three English-language markets at a special pre-Book Fair Summit held in Frankfurt today.

14/10/2009

Pictures of the day

The 60th Frankfurt Book Fair is open! And already, two renowned international authors were in the spotlight: Paulo Coelho (Brazil) and Orhan Pamuk (Turkey). In the meantime, everywhere else in the halls exhibitors were still busy building their stands.

14/10/2009

Recommendations for Wednesday, 15 October

Comics in Turkey, Teatime with the Abu Dhabi Book Fair and information from Chinese independent publishers: the first day's trade programme in Frankfurt starts really international indeed. Have a look at the Book Fair Team’s recommendations.