Frankfurt Book Fair - India Focus

greenchutney

one of the world's largest book fair starting today has an India focus this year and it seems to be one of the biggest gathering of indian authors, writers, poets~..

rediff has a photo gallery of the book fair....here is the link...

any casual attendees here? whats the scene like?...wish i could be there.

machadinha

It's basically Europe's major bookfair, with all the biggies and plenty a not-so biggie meeting up to check out the market and buy or sell their literature. They tend to concentrate on a particular country each year to draw attention to that place's literature, or anyway by means of a "theme." Nice that it should now be India.

See Frankfurter Buchmesse (English): http://www.buchmesse.de/en/portal.php

nb It's very much a trade fair, not necessarily the average book lover's affair, although I'm sure fans do attend.

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girlfromvenus

unfortunately I don't have time to check out the bookfair.....all major german newspapers and magazines have special features about indian writers/India now also, taking away some attention from the current Sharukh Khan/Bollywood-mania

Yashodhara

For all those who intend to go there, please keep in mind that the fair will be open for the public only on the last two days. Books can be bought only on the very last day though.