As many as 450 Spanish works may be published in translation by the October 19 to 23 run of Frankfurter Buchmesse this year.

Boos: ‘Multilingual and Vibrant Literature’

Now in the run-up to its turn this year at Frankfurter Buchmesse (October 19 to 23), the upcoming Guest of Honor Spain program was presented in an introductory news conference in Madrid on Thursday (June 9), an led by Miquel Iceta, Spain’s minister of culture and sport.

Held at the Goethe-Institut Madrid, the event featured Frankfurt president and CEO Juergen Boos; the program’s curator Elvira Marco; and Daniel Fernández, president of the Federación de Gremios de Editores de España (the Federation of Publishers’ Guilds of Spain).

The general director of Spain’s books and reading promotion program, María Jose Gálvez; the president of Acción Cultural Española, José Andrés Torres Mora; and the minister counselor of the German embassy in Spain, Christoph Wolfrum, were also present at the event.

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