The Guest of Honour programme has moved from planning to
implementation of the major stage, so I thought I should update you.
Over the period between mid-July and early November, we will
take part in over 300 events, in more than 50 cities and towns across seven European
nations (primarily Germany, but also Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, UK, France
and Italy).
We are working in partnership with 110 organisations,
including 12 literary festivals, 10 Literaturehauses, 34 publishers, museums,
bookshops, etc.
A group of 67 New Zealand authors will present their work,
and over 80 author visits to Germany will have been organised by the Guest of
Honour team. The programme for the Pavilion at the fair is complete and has
been very well received by our colleagues at the fair.
New Zealand books in translation will be the focus of up to
600 German bookstores through a window display competition.
Translations published or confirmed for publication since
the beginning of GOH, and through to 2013, are now at 90.
Much of the programme team are now based in Germany until
after the fair, and the New Zealand-based PANZ staff are now working on detail
such as individual schedules for each of the 67 authors still to travel.
We are on the cusp of delivering one of the greatest
promotions New Zealand writing has ever seen.
Thank you for your support.
Kevin Chapman
President
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