The total number of trade visitors is expected to have reached 118,500 by Sunday, with 125 countries’ professional industries represented.
Stefano Mauri on Italy’s GeMS at 20 at Frankfurt: ‘Pause Is Not in Our Vocabulary’
‘Accompanying authors to success is perhaps the most rewarding activity in our profession,’ says GeMS Stephano Mauri.
At Frankfurt: Taiwanese Fantasy Is ‘Much Closer to Our Everyday Lives’
The special fiction recognized as Taiwanese fantasy comes to Frankfurt, with a leading literary rights agent as one of its best representatives. (Sponsored)
Pre-Frankfurt: Sharjah Announces 2,350 Exhibitors from 118 Countries
Themed ‘Between You and a Book,’ the 2025 Sharjah International Book Fair welcomes Greece as guest of honor.
Taipei International Book Exhibition Welcomes Guest of Honor Thailand
The 2026 Taipei International Book Exhibition has opened its registration to exhibitors for its Feburary edition, featuring Guest of Honor Thailand. (Sponsored)
Italy: Down 2 Percent in 2025 but ‘Confident of a Recovery’
The 2024 Guest of Honor Italy team will be reporting on international rights action in 2024 as part of their economic update.
Anne-Solange Noble Is Awarded France’s Medal d’Honneur
The former chief of rights at Gallimard, Anne-Solange Noble wins La Médaille de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in Paris.
The £50,000 Booker Prize for Fiction’s 2025 Shortlist
Mature authors on ‘individuals trying to live with other people’: A rather grownup shortlist is announced by the Booker Prize.
China Bestsellers: Summer Reading Rules the Charts
July’s summer-reading-list among students in China may yet yield some newcomers to the mainland’s bestseller lists.
Bologna’s ‘Grand Tour’ Moves from Toulouse to Frankfurter Buchmesse
The fifth anniversary of Bologna Children’s Book Fair’s ‘Grand Tour’ has spent an opening four days at Toulouse’s Cartoon Forum.