Guest of Honour 2008 Turkey

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Guest of Honour 2008 Turkey

Turkey introdued itself as Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2008.

A Turkish organisation committee preparatioed a programme including a varied range of exhibitions and cultural events alongside the presentation at the Book Fair. Seminars and workshops, book exhibitions, readings, concerts, films and stage productions - mainly in Frankfurt and Berlin, but also in other German cities - found a numerous and interested public.

Please find the closing press information in our download area.

Information & data on book land Turkey

Books on Turkey

Every year since 1988, the Frankfurt Book Fair has organised an international book exhibition in which numerous publishing companies from all over the world present their titles relating to the respective Guest of Honour.

As an integral part of the Guest of Honour’s presentation, the Frankfurt Book Fair offered publishing companies from all over the world the opportunity of a special exhibition for display of their current translations from Turkish literature as well as titles on Turkish culture, history and life today. This is accompanied by an exhibition catalogue with the contact addresses of publishing companies who contribute.

In the download area please find the catalogue of titles.


Imaginary East – Imaginary West. Thinking Across Civilizations

The international symposium >Imaginary East – Imaginary West. Thinking across civilizations< is opening the Frankfurt Book Fair in a special way: by a critical debate of relevant contemporary issues involving intellectuals and authors from Turkey, Germany and other countries.


Further information

Website of the organisers of the Turkish Guest of Honour presentation 2008.


Information on the translation funding programme TEDA.


Contact
Frankfurt office of the Guest of Honour Turkey 2008
Mr. Hüseyin Gazi Coşan
Phone: +49 (0) 69 2330-81 /-82
E-mail: huseyin.cosan@kultur.gov.tr

Agency for the presentation of the Guest of Honour:
Bayam Consulting & Communication
Petra Bayam
Phone: +49 (0)69 920 3910
E-mail: Petra.bayam@bayam.de

Contact for the press:
WBCO in cooperation with Bayam Consulting & Communication
Silvia Lenz
Phone: +49 (0) 69 13 38 80 37
E-mail: EhrengastTuerkei@wbco.de


Ministry of Culture and Tourism
General Directorate of Libraries and Publications
Ümit Yaşar Gözüm
Necatibey Cad. No: 55/30
06440 Kızılay / Ankara
Turkey
Phone: +90 (0) 312 231 54 50
Fax: +90 (0) 312 231 55 09
E-mail: umit.y.gozum@kultur.gov.tr

Turkish Publisher's Committee
Müge Gürsoy Sökmen
Chair of Executive Board
İpek Sokak No. 9
34433 Beyoğlu-İstanbul
Turkey
Phone: +90 212 2454509
E-mail: mugesokmen@metiskitap.com

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