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Frankfurt: Guest of Honor Slovenia Hands Off to Italy 2024

The Frankfurter Buchmesse ‘Guest Scroll’ has been handed from Slovenia to Italy as Frankfurt Book Fair closes its 75th edition. In the closing hours of the 75th Frankfurter Buchmesse on Sunday afternoon (October 22), the traditional guest of honor handover ceremony featured Slovenia passing the bespoke “Guest Scroll” used on this occasion every year to Guest of Honor Italy for 2024. Participants in the ceremony included Katja Stergar, director of … Continued

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of Oct. 16 -22, 2023

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Quando eravamo padroni del mondo. Roma: l’impero infinito / When We Ruled the World. Rome: The Infinite Empire Aldo Cazzullo HarperCollins Italia 19.00 2 Le armi della luce/ The Armor of Light Ken Follett Mondadori 27.00 3 La vita e’ bella, nonostante/ Life is Beautiful, Nonetheless Sveva Casati Modignani Sperling & Kupfer 16.90 4 Resisti, cuore. L’Odissea e … Continued

Frankfurt: 2024 Guest of Honor Italy Presents Its Plans

At a press conference, 2024 Guest of Honor Italy previewed its Frankfurt Book Fair plans featuring 120 authors and artists. With Italy scheduled to be the guest of honor at next year’s Frankfurter Buchmesse, the country’s officials and book industry representatives have presented their plans and priorities today (October 19) to  journalists and trade visitors currently at the 75th anniversary edition in a news … Continued

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of Oct. 9 -15, 2023

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Le armi della luce/ The Armor of Light Ken Follett Mondadori 27.00 2 La vita è bella, nonostante / Life is Beautiful, Nonetheless Sveva Casati Modignani Sperling & Kupfer 16.90 3 Quando eravamo padroni del mondo. Roma: l’impero infinito / When We Ruled the World. Rome: The Infinite Empire Aldo Cazzullo HarperCollins Italia 19.00 4 Il vento conosce … Continued

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of Oct. 2 -8, 2023

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Better. Ossessione/ Better. Obsession Carrie Leighton Magazzini Salani 16.90 2 Le armi della luce/ The Armor of Light Ken Follett Mondadori 27.00 3 Quando eravamo padroni del mondo. Roma: l’impero infinito / When We Ruled the World. Rome: The Infinite Empire Aldo Cazzullo HarperCollins Italia 19.00 4 Anime elettriche. Love me love me/ Electric Souls: Love Me Love … Continued

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of Sept. 25- Oct. 1, 2023

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Le armi della luce/ The Armor of Light Ken Follett Mondadori 27.00 2 Il vento conosce il mio nome / The Wind Knows My Name Isabel Allende Feltrinelli 22.00 3 Quando eravamo padroni del mondo. Roma: l’impero infinito / When We Ruled the World. Rome: The Infinite Empire Aldo Cazzullo HarperCollins Italia 19.00 4 La felicita’ al principio … Continued

Italy’s Publishers Elect Innocenzo Cipolletta President

Today in Milan (September 28), the publisher Innocenzo Cipolletta has been elected by the Association of Italian Publishers (Associazione Italiana Editori) to succeed Ricardo Franco Levi as AIE’s president. Cipolletta was previously the president of the Confindustria Cultura Italia, the market’s powerful 5.3-million-employee collective of trade associations in manufacturing and services. Starting a term of two years, Cipolletta arrives, of course, at a time when expansive international attention is … Continued

International Translation Day – September 30th

The role of language professionals International Translation Day is meant as an opportunity to pay tribute to the work of language professionals, which plays an important role in bringing nations together, facilitating dialogue, understanding and cooperation, contributing to development and strengthening world peace and security. Transposition of a literary or scientific work, including technical work, from one language into another language, professional translation, including … Continued

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of Sept. 18-24, 2023

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Resisti, cuore. L’Odissea e l’arte di essere mortali/ Resist, heart: The Odyssey and the Art of Being Mortals Alessandro D’Avenia Mondadori 20.00 2 Il vento conosce il mio nome / The Wind Knows My Name Isabel Allende Feltrinelli 22.00 3 La morra cinese/ The Chinese Bramble Marco Malvaldi Sellerio Editore Palermo 15.00 4 Una ragazza d’altri tempi / … Continued

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of Sept. 11-17, 2023

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Il vento conosce il mio nome / The Wind Knows My Name Isabel Allende Feltrinelli 22.00 2 Una ragazza d’altri tempi / A Girl from Another Time Felicia Kingsley Newton Compton Editori 9.90 3 Accabadora Michela Murgia Einaudi 12.00 4 Holly Stephen King Sperling & Kupfer 21.90 5 La versione di Giorgia / Giorgia’s Version Alessandro Sallusti Rizzoli … 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