New International Promotions
This post originally appeared on the Frankfurt Book Fair blog. In contrast to Russia, both the Korean government and the Romanian government have recently launched large projects to better promote their writers abroad. The Korea Literature Translation Institute (6.0 E 937) recently published some wonderful, quite elegant ...
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Intro to Russia's Publishing Scene
This post originally appeared on the Frankfurt Book Fair blog, and drew a comment . . . At the urging of the Frankfurt Book Fair and the German Book Office in Moscow, Russian representatives put on a special “Look at Russia” seminar earlier today. Vladimir Grigoriev, the deputy head of the Federal Agency for Press and ...
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Publishing Argentina
This originally appeared on the Frankfurt Book Fair blog. This past spring I was fortunate enough to be able to participate in a Editors’ Week in Buenos Aires. It was an amazing experience, solidifying my lifelong interest in Argentine literature, and giving me a once-in-a-lifetime chance to visit the place where many of ...
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Global Innovations and Market Opportunities for Educational Publishers
This post originally appeared on the Frankfurt Book Fair blog. (And this is one of the most serious ones I wrote.) Today’s EPP (Educational Publishing Pavilion) panel on “Global Innovations and Market Opportunites,” blended together two of the primary focuses running throughout this year’s Frankfurt Book ...
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Back from Frankfurt: A Recap
Because I wrote for the Frankfurt Book Fair blog and newsletter, and because yes, I did stay out too late at the Frankfurter Hof and elsewhere, and because the Sportschule (a great place to stay, if not a bit Spartan) has some serious internet difficulties, I really didn’t have a chance to write my usual gossipy, ...
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Bit More on Frankfurt
One of the coolest things that happened last night was when, in the middle of the Berlin Verlag party, everyone went dead silent to watch the announcement of the Booker Prize. (_The White Tiger_ by Aravind Adiga won.) For one thing, it was interesting to see people freaking out over a book award. Of course, people from ...
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Reporting from Frankfurt
OK, it’s technically only day one, but man, everyone already looks and seems exhausted. (The stress of the financial crisis? One too many at the Frankfurter Hof? All of the above?) I’m planning on posting more about the fair here later, but as I mentioned before, I’m also blogging for the English language ...
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