From 16th to 20th October 2024, the Frankfurt Book Fair will be sharing new stories and fresh, exciting pages with you. This year features Italy as Guest of Honour.
The Frankfurt Book Fair or Frankfurter Buchmesse is a highly anticipated event in the publishing world, celebrated annually since 1949. It’s where publishers, authors, literary agents and readers from around the world come together to enrich the precious cultural sector.
With over 7,500 exhibitors from more than 100 countries, the fair provides a platform for negotiating copyright (especially in the age of AI), presenting new titles and discussing literary themes.
Featuring a full programme of events, including conferences, debates and awards, the Frankfurt Book Fair is a key event for the global publishing industry and an experience not to be missed!
Frankfurt Book Fair 2024: Italy as Guest of Honour
Italy will be the long-awaited Guest of Honour for the Frankfurt fair’s 76th year, with over one hundred authors invited, including Dacia Maraini, Claudio Magris and Alessandro Baricco. The slogan chosen for Italy’s participation in the 2024 fair is ‘Roots in the future’ (Radici nel futuro), which aims to showcase culture as a space where tradition and modernity can meet and allow different sensitivities to engage with one another.
In an agenda packed with meetings and content, Daniele Mencarelli and Emanuele Trevi will talk about absence, Susanna Tamaro and Stefano Zecchi about beauty, Carlo Rovelli about the apocalypse, Sandro Veronesi about chaos, Massimo Sandal about science, Alessandro D’Avenia about classics, Alessandro Barbero and Aldo Cazzullo about stories, Francesca Melandri about care, Valeria Parrella about storytelling, and Nicola Lagioia about places.
The Guests of Honour for the next few years will be the Philippines in 2025, followed by the Czech Republic in 2026 and Chile in 2027. For more information and tickets, you can visit the website https://www.buchmesse.de/en
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