# Title Author Publisher Price 1 Per niente al mondo / Never Ken Follett Mondadori 27,00 2 Una vita nuova / A New Life Fabio Volo Mondadori 19,00 3 Diario della fine del mondo. Lyon & Anna / Diary at the End of the World Lyon Gamer Magazzini Salani 16,80 4 Cucina Botanica. Vegetale, facile, veloce / Organic Cooking: Vegetarian, Easy, Quick Carlotta Perego … Continued
The ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) 2021 Virtual Convention is being held from November 19th to 21st. This global event brings together educators from all languages, levels and learning institutions. The goal is to provide a comprehensive development experience that will have an impact on language educators at all levels and assist their students in succeeding in the language learning … Continued
At this year’s edition of the Frankfurt Book Fair, one of the many live events originating in the new Frankfurt Studio media production unit, independent publishers, agents, editors, and scouts addressed the future of independent publishing in a two-hour series of short talks with Publishing Perspectives’ Porter Anderson. Among the panelists was Sandro Ferri, publisher of Edizioni E/O, discussing the two worlds in publishing—independent and … Continued
The 21st annual Italian Language Week in the World was held last week, October 18-24th. Under the patronage of the President of the Republic of Italy, the week-long event serves to promote the Italian language through a series of events worldwide organized by embassies, consulates and the Italian Cultural Institutes. This year’s theme was “Dante, The Italian”: Dante the Italian. Fortunately, the virtual art exhibit … Continued
# Title Author Publisher Price 1 Il maialino di Natale / The Christmas Pig J. K. Rowling Salani 18,90 2 La ragazza del collegio / Boarding School Girl Alessia Gazzola Longanesi 18,60 3 Io mi fido di te. Storia dei miei figli nati dal cuore / I Trust You. Stories of My Children from the Heart Luciana Littizzetto Mondadori 19,00 4 L’amore fa miracoli … Continued
ACTFL online 2021 (November 19-21) The Italian Trade Agency in Chicago will be at ACTFL online 2021 with its own digital booth, promoting the newly restructured website Italbooks.com, an interactive platform for the book rights initiatives. ITA’s team will
US-based Kazabo Publishing is proud to announce the English language version of Stefano Benni’s best-selling novella The Book of Morfeo (published in Italian as La Traccia dell’angelo). With a blend of magical realism and satire, Benni creates a powerful and poignant work. For more details: Book of Morfeo
As reported by Porter Anderson in Publishing Perspectives, the Italian book market shows strong resilience in the first-nine-month statistics for 2021 — coming in strongly ahead of 2019’s numbers as well as those of 2020. AIE (Association of Italian Publishers) president, Ricardo Franco Levi, states that this is “a trend that we had already observed at the end of 2020 and then in the … Continued
In a recent article by Porter Anderson posted on Publishing Perspectives, Publishing Perspectives – Ambrosiana, the historic Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, founded in 1609, officially announced an agreement with the Sharjah Book Authority to launch the digitization of more than 2,500 significant aging manuscripts for shared accessibility in their libraries. These manuscripts — some more than 450 years old – are to be made digitally available … Continued
# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Bolle di sapone / Soap Bubbles Marco Malvaldi Sellerio Editore Palermo 15.00 2 Cambiare l’acqua ai fiori / Fresh Water for Flowers Valérie Perrin E/O 18.00 3 Fermare Pechino. Capire la Cina per salvare l’Occidente / Stopping Peking: Understanding China to Save the West Federico Rampini Mondadori 20.00 4 La canzone di Achille / The Song of Achilles … Continued
