The 77th edition of the Frankfurt Book Fairwhich takes place between October 15 and 19, hosts an important Catalan representation in a stand that, under the motto Catalonia, Land of Books; Barcelona, City of Literaturerepresents literature and the Catalan publishing sector. The stand is part of the line of actions that the Department of Culture carried out to promote Catalan literature and the internationalization of the publishing sector.
The stand, organized by Catalan Institute of Cultural Enterprises (ICEC) through the internationalization mark Catalan Arts; the Ramon Llull Institute (IRL)and the Barcelona City Counciland with the participation of Catalan Language Publishers Associationof Guild of Publishers of Catalonia and of Institute of Balearic Studiesoffers a joint image of the sector and provides professionals with a business space where they can develop their activities at the fair with maximum facilities.
Internationalization of Catalan literature
One more year, the Ramon Llull Institute has arranged some eighty meetings with editors from all over the world to continue promoting the translation of Catalan literature into other languages, consolidate its presence in stable markets and open new opportunities in strategic and emerging countries. The IRL supports international publishing projects through its support programs for the translation, promotion and publication of illustrated works. In the last five years they have been published more than 1,800 translations of original literary works in Catalan.
Coinciding with the celebration of the fair, the October 15 will be inaugurated in University of Frankfurt the exhibition “The Catalan Countries in Frankfurt: language and culture, literature and research”. The exhibition devotes a large part of its space to 40th anniversary of the Catalan Library which houses this German university, the largest Catalan themed library outside the Catalan countries, with a collection of around 35,000 volumes.
The project is conceptualized by him readership of Catalan from the university and has the academic support of the professor Tilbert Didac Stegmannthe teacher Jacopo Torregrossa and the teacher Romana Radwimmer. The exhibition can be visited until December 12.
Publishing industry
This year a total of attend the Catalan stand 40 publishers: Alba Editorial, Angle Editorial, Animallibres, Blackie Books, BMC Edicions, Club Editor, Edicions Bromera, Cossetània Edicions, Editorial Base, Editorial Flamboyant, Editorial GG, Editorial Sentir, Editorial Stenella, Editorial Vicens Vives, Eumo Editorial, Flor Edicions, Folioscopio, Gemser Publications, Grup62, La Topera Editorial, Libros del Asteroid, Manifest Llibres, Mosquito Books Barcelona, Norma Editorial, Obrador Editorial, Open Books, Pagès Editors, Profit-Amat Editorial, Raig Verd Editorial, Shackleton Books, Símbol Editors, Takatuka, Tibidabo Edicions, Triangle Books, Vegueta Ediciones, Verso Libros, Vibop Edicions, Voliana Edicions and Zahorí Books.
The ICEC has published a booklet with all the information of the publishers participating in the fair, which will be distributed among accredited international professionals.
In addition to the publishers accredited in the Catalan stand, they will also attend in Frankfurt 20 publishing groups with their own standamong which are Anagrama, Editorial Casals, ECC Ediciones, Edebé Educación, Grup Planeta, Herder Editorial, Hoaki Books, Lecta, Larousse Editorial, Penguin Random House, Quaderns Crema-Acantilado, RBA, Tusquets Editores and Universitat de Barcelona Edicions. Other Catalan publishers will also work from the stand of the Federation of Editorial Guilds of Spain.
The October 15on a trip organized by him Guild of Publishers of Catalonia, 30 representatives of other Catalan publishing houses will visit the fair and have the opportunity to learn how it works.
The Frankfurt Fair
The Frankfurt Book Fair it is an essential event in the annual work calendar of Catalan publishers and other agents of the book production chain. Every year, the fair gathers a more than 7,000 companies that announce their news, and it is estimated that the 80% of annual copyright contracts from the editorial field at an international level are signed during these days. In recent years, the presence of Catalan professionals has been increasing. It should be noted that Barcelona represents more than 50% of production and turnover of the Spanish publishing industry.
In the last ones 23 years oldthe ICEC and the IRL have organized and promoted the presence of our editors and our literature in the main international literary events, among which stand out the Guadalajara Book Fair (Barcelona will be the guest of honor in 2025), la Frankfurt Book Fairthe Paris Book Festivalthe Gothenburg Book Fairthe Salone di Torinothe Bologna Book Fairthe Buenos Aires Book Fair and the London Book Fair. In addition, this 2025 has also been added Angoulême International Comic Festivalwhere the ICEC, for the first time, has its own stand.
