£1.2m


NETFLIX’S KELLY LUEGENBIEHL WILL GIVE THE PRESTIGIOUS C.E.O. TALK


EDU CONFERENCE


The Future of Learning


FBF’s new EDU area— based in and around Hall 4.2—aims to be


space where pubilshers and digital companies discuss the latest in


EdTech, innovation and what the classroom of tomorrow will look like.


Interestingly, today’s EDU conference will focus not just on tech, but on how publishers must adapt their learning tools as


Today, 2 p.m. ? Frankfurt Pavilion, Agora


classrooms become more diverse and multicultural. The EDU conference itself has also been reshaped. Held annually since 2006, it was previously called the Bildungskongress


(“education congress”) and geared—as the name might imply—towards the home market.


C.E.O. TALK WITH KELLY LUEGENBIEHL


Netflix commissioner to outline bookish approach


H


ollywood comes to the annual FBF C.e.o. Talk in the form of Netflix’s Kelly Luegenbiehl—although, with


respect, perhaps the title of this seminar is a bit misleading because, as vice-president for international originals, Luegenbiehl is a wee bit down on the Netflix organisational depth chart from c.e.o. Reed Hastings. At any rate, Luegenbiehl heads commissioning for the streaming giant’s non-US-based programming and will have lots to say about what kind of projects Netflix is on the hunt for. The company has been on a huge book- buying spree of late, with some of its original promgramming from the international arm including adaptations of Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude and Polish fantasy novelist Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher series.


JON FOSSE IN CONVERSATION


Prolific Fosse set to find broader readership


Today, 2 p.m.


? Guest of Honour Pavilion, Main Stage (Forum, Level 1)


Today’s English-language programme reflects how schoolroom technology crosses borders. But it also perhaps reflects a decline in German- language education publishers at FBF,


owing to consolidation in the German publishing industry.


Today, 6 p.m. Today, 9.30 a.m. ? Room Conclusio 1, Congress Centre, Level 2 T ? Business Club Counter (Foyer, Hall 4)


he origin of Frankfurt’s Young Talent programme—in which trade bodies and trade


magazines from across the world salute the up-and-comers in their home markets, a select few of whom are brought to FBF—is The Bookseller’s own Rising Stars initiative, launched in 2011. Imitation, as they say, is the sincerest form of flattery. Still, it is hard to feel cynical


about meeting a whip-smart group of forward-thinkers who may just be the future of the book trade. Last


Perennially listed as a bookies’ Nobel Prize favourite, Jon Fosse is arguably Norway’s most revered writer. Yet the novelist, essayist, poet and playwright has not had much cut through in the Anglophone world—certainly nothing near that of Knausgaard, whom Fosse tutored when the former was a young student at the Bergen Writing Academy. Indeed, his 30-plus books and 40 plays have rarely been translated into English. That has been changing in recent years, with


UK indie Fitzcarraldo Editions releasing the short story collection Scenes From a Childhood in 2018, and this year it began bringing about the massive seven-novel cycle Septology. Fosse is speaking today about the German version of Septology with his translator, Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel.


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JON FOSSE WILL HIT THE STAGE


THE LAUDED 15


Karl Ove Knausgaard’s UK TCM value to date


YOUNG TALENT RECEPTION


Raising a glass to the next generation of book trade stars


YOUNG TALENT


LAST YEAR’S INTAKE OF


year’s intake included Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls co-creator Francesca Cavallo and Pan Macmillan senior editor Sophie Jonathan. Pan Mac is represented again this


year, with The Bookseller’s Shooting Star—the Rising Star who stands out from the rest of the list—Laura Ricchetti, the publisher’s international sales director. Among those joining Ricchetti are Teachers College Press production manager Jennifer Baker (US), bookseller and bookstagrammer Florian Valerius (Germany) and Elaine Stap, who heads marketing and publicity at Meulenhoff Boekerij (the Netherlands).


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