This year’s The Nobel Prize in Literature has been “postponed” (two will be awarded in 2019) because of a sex abuse scandal in the august halls of the Swedish Academy, which hands out the award. But, many people don’t care about that, besides, 70th Frankfurter Buchmesse – International Frankfurt Book Fair – took place 10-14 October 2018.
Why gourmet? Because this year the Frankfurt Book Fair’s visitors attended the fair, 0.5 percent less than in 2017, a total of 285,024 (2017: 286,425). The fair should find a way to attract more visitors.
The Frankfurter Buchmesse is the international publishing industry’s biggest trade fair – with over 7,300 exhibitors from 102 countries, around 286,000 visitors, over 4,000 events and some 10,000 accredited journalists and bloggers in attendance.
In this video, Mr. Denis Scheck explained that the Bestseller books do not have the best literature qualities! Just be careful and “do not fall into the trap” when you are going to buy books.
And the most beautiful part was the guest of honor, “Georgia”!
The awards
LiBeraturpreis 2018: Nguyen Ngoc Tu
Photo:Sigoneer
The LiBeraturpreis is the only German literary prize awarded exclusively to women from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Arab world. In 2018, the award goes to the Vietnamese writer Nguyen Ngoc Tu for The Endless Field (German edition: Endlose Felder, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, translated by Günter Giesenfeld and Marianne Ngo), a collection of concise and densely told short stories full of longing.
The winners of the Global Illustration Award have just been awarded:
THE LIST AND ILLUSTRATIONS ARE HERE
The winners in the individual categories at a glance:
Best International Literary Adaptation
“INTRIGO – DEATH OF AN AUTHOR”, based on the novels by Håkan Nesser, directed by Daniel Alfredson
Best International Literary Adaptation for Children or Young Adults
Romy’s Salon (NL), directed by Mischa Kamp
Best Illustrated Book on Film
“Cinemaps: An Atlas of 35 Great Movies” (Quirk Books)
In the category “Best Illustrated Book on Film”, which was awarded together with the MGIP Motovun Group of International Publishers, this year, there were also two runners-up: “Marilyn Monroe 50 sessions” (Knesebeck Verlag) and “Frankenstein – The First Two Hundred Years” (Reel Art Press).
MANOUCHEHR ABRONTAN