The largest book fair in the world, which is taking place these days in Frankfurt, is finally opening its doors to the public.
During the week, the fair is dedicated exclusively to the internal trade in copyrights, and when the "brokerage" is over, it's the turn of the readers. The fair opened with the awarding of the German literary award, which this year went to Terezia Mora and her touching the novel The Monster, "Das Underheuer", which opens the story of a husband's struggle with his wife's suicide.
This year's fair is in the foreground as the guest of honor, Brazil, which presents itself as "Land full of voices." Brazil presents itself with more than 90 authors, but for reasons of protest, the most expected will not be among them - Paulo Coelho, because he says that out of 92 Brazilian authors he knows only about 20, the rest are probably "friends of friends."
If in recent years the e-book, the digitization of a book, has attracted the most attention at the Frankfurt Fair, it seems that this year this topic has already passed. The focus is on reading, and the fair is intended for fans of just that, whether it's nostalgic flipping of the pages or scrolling on the tablet. But this year there is a lot of talk about self-publishing, which is given free rein by "polemical" digitization. But because it gives free rein to the masses, it is difficult for any book to penetrate, and this is precisely the frequent theme of the events - in what way with self-publishing also succeed.
As every year, Slovenian book production is also presented, represented by the Public Book Agency of the Republic of Slovenia. And one more of this year's innovations: baby bubble, a new space with an exciting presentation of children's and youth literature, where an interesting program also takes place throughout.
More information at:
www.buchmesse.de
