Year: 2022

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of December 19 – December 25, 2022

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 La casa delle luci / The House of Lights Donato Carrisi Longanesi 23.00 2 Caminito. Un aprile del commissario Ricciardi / Caminito. An April with Commissioner Ricciardi Maurizio De Giovanni Einaudi 19.00 3 No sleep till Shengal Zerocalcare Bao Publishing 23.00 4 Tasmania Paolo Giordano Einaudi 19.50 5 Mussolini il capobanda/ Mussolini, the Ringleader Aldo Cazzullo Mondadori 19.00 … Continued

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of December 12 – December 18, 2022

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 La casa delle luci / The House of Lights Donato Carrisi Longanesi 23.00 2 Nerone. La rinascita di Roma e il tramonto di un imperatore. La trilogia di Nerone (3 vol.)/ Nero. The Renaissance of Rome and the Decline of an Emperor. Alberto Angela HarperCollins Italia 22.00 3 Caminito. Un aprile del commissario Ricciardi / Caminito. An April … Continued

500 exhibitors, 600 events, more than 100,000 visitors. Più Libri Più Liberi 2022 is a huge success

More than 100,000 people visited the 20th edition of Più Libri Più Liberi, the national fair of small and medium-sized publishers organized by the Italian Publishers’ Association (AIE), which concluded on December 11th at the Rome convention center – La Nuvola. Next year’s dates are already set for December 6 – 10, 2023. Il Giornale della Libreria, a media partner of Più Libri Più … Continued

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of December 5 – December 11, 2022

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Caminito. Un aprile del commissario Ricciardi / Caminito. An April with Commissioner Ricciardi Maurizio De Giovanni Einaudi 19.00 2 La casa delle luci / The House of Lights Donato Carrisi Longanesi 23.00 3 La luce delle stelle morte / The Light of Dead Stars Massimo Recalcati Feltrinelli 16.00 4 Tasmania Paolo Giordano Einaudi 22.00 5 La disperata ricerca … Continued

Italian Book Publishers Report on 2022 Revenue: A Slight Decline

Italy’s publishers expect their year-end revenue to be down by between a modest 1.1 and 1.8 percent as compared to 2021.  In a presentation today (December 7) at Rome’s Più libri più liberi—Italy’s book fair for small and medium-sized publishing companies—the Association of Italian Publishers (Associazione Italiana Editori, AIE) has presented its year-end industry statistics report on the market’s performance. The top-line takeaway is … Continued

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of November 28 – December 4, 2022

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Caminito. Un aprile del commissario Ricciardi / Caminito. In April with Commissioner Ricciardi Maurizio De Giovanni Einaudi 19.00 2 La casa delle luci / The House of Lights Donato Carrisi Longanesi 23.00 3 La disperata ricerca d’amore di un povero idiota / A Poor Idiot’s Desperate Search for Love Pif Feltrinelli 18.00 4 Fratelli. Una famiglia italiana / … Continued

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of November 14-20, 2022

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 La casa delle luci / The House of Lights Donato Carrisi Longanesi 23.00 2 Mussolini il capobanda / Mussolini, the Ringleader Aldo Cazzullo Mondadori 19.00 3 La disperata ricerca d’amore di un povero idiota / A Poor Idiot’s Desperate Search for Love Pif Feltrinelli 18.00 4 La stella del deserto / Desert Star Michael Connelly Piemme 21.00 5 … Continued

CEPELL (Center for the Book and Reading) – New Call for Proposals for Translation Grants

Call for Proposals “For the translation and dissemination of Italian books and reading abroad by Italian authors” The Call for Proposals is aimed at Italian publishers interested in promoting the translation of books and the reading abroad of Italian authors, also through or in collaboration with Italian schools and the network of Italian Cultural Institutes and their libraries, with the aim of disseminating Italian … Continued

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of November 7-13, 2022

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 La casa delle luci / The House of Lights Donato Carrisi Longanesi 23.00 2 La disperata ricerca d’amore di un povero idiota / A Poor Idiot’s Desperate Search for Love Pif Feltrinelli 18.00 3 Benvenuti in casa mia! Tante ricette facili / Welcome to my house! Easy recipes Benedetta Rossi Mondadori Electa 19.90 4 Tasmania Paolo Giordano Einaudi … Continued

Italian Trade Agency and the Publishing Task Force at the upcoming ACTFL Conference & Expo 2022 in Boston

Opening Day for ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) Annual Convention and World Languages Expo 2022 in Boston. Stop by the Italian Trade Agency-Chicago booth #1025. The following Italian companies will be exhibiting at ACTFL this year: Accademia Italiana Salerno – booth #1024 Alma Edizioni – booth #1121 Babilonia – Center for Italian Language & Culture – booth #1021 Centro Linguistico … Continued

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  • The Bologna Children’s Books Fair will turn digital

    April 8

    The organizers (Ente Fiera) of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair announced on April 9th the cancellation of the 58th physical edition of the Expo, including the Licensing Trade Fair and the first Bologna BookPlus, expected for April 14 to 17 (2021) in order to stop the spreading of the Coronavirus. But the show must go on. In fact, according to Publishing Perspectives, the exhibition … Continued