Turkey's professionalized
publishing industry is on full display at the London Book Fair with the hope
that foreigners will take a greater interest in translations and trade.
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Discussion:
Books with first-hand accounts of
life in North Korea are rare, so John Sweeney's Zombie Nation and Jang
Jin-Sung's Crossing the Border are generating unique buzz at LBF.
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More News from PP:
The new
Gimbal app, launching Tuesday at the London Book Fair, features translated
short stories for commuters that allows you to explore a city through
fiction.
Porter Anderson assesses the
Digital Minds Conference at the London Book Fair, where metaphors were in
vogue, the end of copyright debated, and speed was the word of the day.
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From the Archives:
What happens when you take a book
and transform its content into a building, like Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of
Innocence in Istanbul? Helmut von Berg considers.
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Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Turkish Publishing on the Rise: It’s "More Than Orhan Pamuk"
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