The Diplomat
Nearly 200 Spanish authors will participate in the Frankfurt Book Fair 2022, which will be held next October and in which Spain will appear as Guest of Honor.
The Minister of Culture and Sport, Miquel Iceta; the commissioner of the project, Elvira Marco, and the president of the Federation of the Spanish Publishers’ Guild, Daniel Fernández, presented last Thursday the program of Spain Guest of Honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2022, whose motto will be Overflowing Creativity and in which almost 200 authors in all languages of Spain will participate.
“I am convinced that our presence in Frankfurt is going to be a milestone in the cultural renaissance that we are going to experience after two years of pandemic,” said Iceta during the event, held at the Goethe-Institut in Madrid and in which also spoke the author Irene Vallejo, representing the authors who are part of the literary program of the Fair; the director of the Frankfurt Book Fair, Juergen Boos; the director general of Books and Reading Promotion, María Jose Gálvez; the president of Acción Cultural Española (AC/E), José Andrés Torres Mora; and the minister counselor of the German Embassy in Spain, Christoph Wolfrum.
The Spain Guest of Honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2022 project is led by the Ministry of Culture and Sport through the Directorate General for Books and the Promotion of Reading, together with Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) and the Federation of the Publishers’ Guild of Spain.
“It’s time to show the results of four years of work,” declared Elvira Marco. “We are presenting ourselves with the fulfilled objective of promoting the translation of our authors and the internationalization of the publishing sector, with more than 300 new titles published since 2019 and 150 launches in Germany in 2022,” added the commissioner.
The program that will take place in the 2,000-square-meter Spain Pavilion will “showcase the literary creativity and strength of the Spanish publishing industry” in all genres – novels, essays, poetry, drama, children’s and young adult literature, comics and illustrated albums – with both contemporary and classic Spanish-language authors, Marco explained.
The project “is based on the pillars of linguistic plurality, bibliodiversity, the value of Spanish as a bridge to Latin America and the values of equality and diversity in Spanish society,” the Ministry stated. “It is on these foundations that the literary programming, drawn up with the support of an advisory committee, is inspired,” it added. Spain has been working for several years on its proposal for the Book Fair, which will be held from October 19-23, 2022.
