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MACMILLAN 175TH STAND PARTY
Macmillan celebrates
The bubbly will be flowing at the Macmillan stand as the venerable firm celebrates the 175th
year since its founding by two crofters’ sons
from Scotland’s Isle of Arran. Some trivia: the first two books Daniel and Alexander Macmillan published were A R
Today, 5.00 p.m.
? Frankfurt Kids’ Stage, Foyer 5.1/6.1
PRESENTATION OF CANDIDATES FOR THE ASTRID LINDGREN AWARD
Children’s writers vie for lucrative Lindgren prize
FBF’s Frankfurt Kids—the new souped-up children’s programme—is undoubtedly part of a strategy to steal a march on Bologna. It may not put much of a dent in Bologna’s attendance figures (barring a gelato or pasta famine in “the fat city”) but Frankfurt director Jürgen Boos says that his fair’s children’s arm is “focusing a lot on licensing, whereas Bologna’s focus is more on illustrators”. Whatever the outcome, it must be gratifying that the children’s sector’s marquee global prize, the Astrid Lindgren Award, will today announce the creators in contention for the 2019 prize (the winner is revealed during Bologna, naturally). On hand to help will be last year’s winner, US author Jacqueline Woodson above, and Belgian illustrator/ writer Kitty Crowther, the 2010 honouree.
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Te financial reward for winning the Astrid Lindgren Award, equivalent to around £430,000
UK-based writers have won the prize in its 15-year history: Philip Pullman (2005) and Meg Rosoff (2016)
ASSERTING AND CONNECTING IDENTITIES: AFRICAN BOOK FAIRS AND LITERARY FESTIVALS
Africa’s publishing scene takes centre stage
Today, 4.30 p.m. ? Hall 5.1 B125 Craig’s education tome
The Philosophy of Training and William Haig Miller’s The Three Questions: What Am I? Whence Came I? Whither Do I Go? (The latter sounds like it could easily fit in on Pan Mac’s Bluebird lifestyle imprint today.) And it is the only publisher to ever be chaired by a
former UK Prime Minister: Harold Macmillan rejoined the family firm after leaving politics in 1963.
Today, 5.00 p.m. ? Hall 4.2 F8
Paperback units sold of Jonas Jonasson’s first Hundred-Year-Old Man title in the UK
JONAS JONASSON: THE HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD MAN RETURNS
Jonasson toasts return of his bestselling centenarian
Today, 4.00 p.m. F ? Hall 3.0, C119
resh off a series of events at the Gothenburg Book Fair, Sweden’s favourite son Jonas
Jonasson makes his first appearance at the BuchMesse. “I’ve never been to Frankfurt, but I get the idea that it’s a business meeting with a little party, but I can tell you that Gothenburg is a real party,” he told Te Bookseller in a pre-fair interview. And he may not be wrong... Jonasson has been published in 46
languages but Germany is his biggest market—his second book featuring
FBF 2018 is a record year for African publishers, with more exhibitors (39) from more countries (19) than ever before. Events throughout the week reflect the increased footprint of visi- tors from the continent, with a wide-ranging programme including a workshop on selling rights in local African languages, a seminar on regional e-commerce platforms, and talks from the new generation of African literary agents.
Today’s marquee event sees five directors of some of Africa’s most vibrant literary festivals— including Madhu Krishnan from Uganda’s Writivism, Elliot Agyare from the Ghana International Book Festival, and Corinne Fleury right of the Mauritius Youth Literature Festival—sharing best practice learned from their events, and discussing how the festivals can work together.
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centenarian Allan Karlsson, Te Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man débuted at number one in the country when it was released in September. It is perhaps apropos that FBF
2018 is Jonasson’s maiden voyage, given that this year’s edition is heavy on events that focus on the rise of populism, difficulties over free speech and the somewhat turbulent state of world politics. Accidental Further Adventures... is a roistering, absurdist romp through current world geopoli- tics, with Karlsson bumping into the likes of Kim Jong-Un, Angela Merkel and Donald Trump.
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